Social Security Numbers

[ProDuch]

ur idea about the scanners in every building....

dumb!
the econemy is bad enough, do you no how much it would cost to put chips in everyone and scanners in every building?!

Economic is bad cause theyr no job so implanting this new technology would create alot of job. So isnt bad for economy.

Also yes it should be chips cause i dont trust my SNN card number so easy to steal it or lose it. You can ruin a life of a person by stealling his SNN

 

[Jesse]

Why do you say that? We don't have SSNs in Australia and we do fine.

So you don't have any unique identification for an individual that when possessed can access all of the individuals assets?

 

[10_sEC_hERO]

The SSNs got stolen because the IT Technicians/Admins can't even secure a database, I'm sure the college had enough founds to hire a bunch of hackers to try and hack into the website/network or whatever to make it "hack-proof", but instead of doing that the headmaster thought oh you know what I think the money will be best invested into a 50 inch plasma TV and a fancy coffee maker.

As for the chip idea...I wouldn't want the government or whoever is tracking those chips knowing what I'm doing or where I am.

 

[Aussie123]

the chips remind me of futurama

 

[Big-cow]

the chips remind me of futurama

haha yeah

and yeah in Australia we don't have SSN like swan said above, and i think its pretty stupid for a college to get hacked...

Cheers

 

[chooby lion]

If chips were a worldwide thing, that'd be pretty good to be honest. If you need to track a fugitive, just track the chip. Crime would go down SIGNIFICANTLY also because knowing you can no longer hide and also if chips can show where you were in the past, then WOW, crime would be almost unheard of because you just look at all the suspects and see who was at the scene at the time of the crime.

Then again, if the tracking gets in the wrong hands, it can be quite devastating - thats where checks and balances can come in though.

Your totally looking past the bad things about everyone having a chip embedded in you. Think about it, you would have absolutly no privacy whatsoever. People knowing where you are 24/7, great. Watch the zeitgiest there is a thing on this.

 

[World Domination]

Obselete or not? Recently, a college was hacked and hackers took around 97,000 SSNs. I forgot which college it was, but the article said that SSNs can be used to: access bank accounts, open credit cards, and even have new driver's licenses printed.

Personally, I think it would be safer for PCs and Macs to come with some sort of chip-reading device, and have your own little microchip implanted in you, with scanners in all modern buildings which require an SSN.

Discuss?

There is already talk that this will actually be used someday.

Heh I agree... I don't want the government keeping tabs on me!

They already do. Much more than you think.

Your totally looking past the bad things about everyone having a chip embedded in you. Think about it, you would have absolutly no privacy whatsoever. People knowing where you are 24/7, great. Watch the zeitgiest there is a thing on this.

It won't work like that. It will work like a barcode on a product at a store. It will only be used when scanned with something. It won't be like a tracking or mind reading device.

 

[zzack13]

I'm young and I have never personally needed a Social Security number except for when I went to open a bank account. I could care less about it unless I'm losing money or my identity.