On 9-Jun-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron and Jenny Hawkins) wrote: > The ID card is used for identification, but my bank account and credit card > numbers have no relationship to my ID Card. The ID card is pretty much as > tamper proof as a good passport page - more so as the photo is embedded into > the plastic and not simply stuck on, stamped and laminated over. It is > certainly not the sort of thing that a local school kid can reproduce.
For our databases, we need to make sure our key is not data. At one time SSNs were not data, but they have become data. How do we stop ID cards from becoming data the same as your name is? It may be difficult to have invalid ID cards, but it certainly is not impossible. At least law enforcement will need to have databases which assume multiple IDs per person, or multiple people for IDs. As far as photo IDs go - a year ago, I got my new driver's license in the mail. It has the same old photo from way before I got my beard. It's not very useful. How do you use this ID in your databases? > When ID card numbers are asked for over the phone by the banks to verify my > ID, I have already entered my PIN number and I am also asked for my > birthday, and sometimes a question that I have registered an answer to. PIN number? Is that what you enter into an automatic ATM machine? (you pressed one of my peeve buttons) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
