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Originally posted by Adeptus
CookieRevised,
We can debate whether such an ID card is a good idea or not, but you are clearly mistaken (or using your own personal definition of anonymity) here:
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you need to insert your internet ID card in the slot attached to your commputer. When the chatroom has verified that you are underage (or whatever) you can access it, still anonymously!
There is nothing "anonymous" about that. The site has verified a government issued ID. It knows who you are and probably has logged that information.
right....
Such remarks are always done when such login systems are in development or what not. Changes are the "big brother" knows more about you by you using your cell phone than it would by the use of such ID systems.
Not only that, but when I say anonymously I mean anonymously; there would be nobody in the chatroom knowing who you are. And as for the "system" knowing it, there are already clear rules at what the "system" can ask and what not, or what systems can do what. There are stages of accessebility of the information on it, which even govermental instancies need to keep.
And even if it did, who cares? Do you have anything to hide from the "system"? Don't believe you are actually surfing totally anonymously (by your definition) atm. Even on this forum your IP is logged.
With the eID it would be exactly the same as with all the systems already in use (forums, ISP's logging their users IP's, cell phone companies holding a record for a few years of who you called, goverments who keep info on your health in their files, etc, etc, etc). There would be nothing special or out of the ordinary with the use of such eID's.
Privacy is of course one of the main concearns which the developpers keep in mind, be sure of that. Furthermore, using the eID isn't mandatory, it is your own choice.
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And on a personal note, I would rather have my children needing to identify themselfs before they could use a chatroom (totally identifying themself, no anonymous nicks and stuff), and thus also the other people, than having the children talk alone to total anonymous strangers, if I had the choice.
And that is one of the main uses of such an eID. And the other main uses is to identify yourself with e-banks and stuff who already know everything (what they need to know) about you anyways.
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