[greeneyes]

What BS BARF. Do they really think that they are going to be able to make the citizens of the USA, present ID cards for UN inspection? I can just see some blue helmet guy saying, “ your papers please” to some Hillbilly, and then he’ll find out that he’s even less popular than a revenuer.

[amorphous]

With biometric ID you don't need cards or chips even. You can be identified from a distance by facial recognition or even the way you walk. There are systems that can pick someone out of a crowed terminal, stadium, street, or even while driving.

Then there are finger print scanners, palm readers, iris and ear lob identification methods, body odder, the way you type, the way you use words, voice recognition (for sometime now). Eventually the ultimate in 100% certain identification methods will be rapid DNA identification.

There is a decent move titled, "Galatica" IIRC, where DNA ID is used.

Most of this technology is way ahead of where the average person thinks it is. Biometric data of individuals are being collected even now on a massive scale.