Universal IDs

Submitted by Victor Purinton (United States), Oct 18, 2005 at 18:19

This is all going to be a thing of the past in a couple of decades.

The world is headed toward universal ID cards that store image and other biometric data on encrypted chips that will be impossible to forge. Eventually, they'll be implanted and read by radio frequency.

I'm being serious.

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