5 Comments for Identification Barcode Tattooing!?

• 1. gunplumber_462  |  December 27th, 2010 at 2:32 am

  It could certainly speed the process of sorting which ones go straight to the gas chambers and which go to the forced labor camps.

  Is sixty-five years REALLY that long ago?

• 2. OneLastRevolutionary  |  December 27th, 2010 at 3:05 am

  Tattooing a bar code is passe.It is more likely too ccur as a micro chip implant so the person could be GPS tracked.

• 3. Lynn  |  December 27th, 2010 at 3:13 am

  Well, I guess you could say that it would be of help in emergency situations. Like medical conditions as well as ID could be included in the barcode.

  I got nothin’ else. Sorry :)

• 4. AladdinZane  |  December 27th, 2010 at 3:36 am

  Okay I am against it for obvious reasons but I’ll try to think pro. But it depends on what kind of pro. If its pro from the perspective of the individual then its very difficult and maybe impossible. From a government or institutional perspective there are many “benefits” in being able to scan people as easily as grocery produce – not leat amongst those benefits being the discrimination of different social types.

  From an individual’s point of view the only possible benefit I can think of is if your child is tatooed (somehow painlessly) at birth. Then there can be no baby mix ups etc (except at tatoo time).

• 5. It's That Guy  |  December 27th, 2010 at 4:04 am

  Well first of all, for universal identification purposes a bar code tattoo is not the way to go. Tattoos fade and spread as the person ages, their edges get less distinct. Plus they can be modified by anyone with a tattoo gun. An RFID chip is better, and we actually do that now with animals (and children!)

  It comes down to a balance between liberty and freedom on one hand and security on the other.

  A universal ID system makes it easier to ID people, to keep track of them. It would make ID theft impossible. It would speed the line in airports, etc. It would make it easier for police to track people. It might make us a little safer from crime and terrorism, if a little less safe from the government.

  A person with a warrant out for his arrest could very easily be found. It would be much harder to live under an assumed identity. A cop making a traffic stop, for instance, could know instantly if the person was wanted for something, what his criminal record was, etc. ID chips could be scanned automatically at entrances to public bulidings–banks, post offices, cash machines, even supermarkets, so people wanted by the police could be very easily apprehended.

  And the system could be paid for by selling the data to commercial ‘data miners’. It would be worth a lot of money to advertisers and marketing organizations to know how many times a particular person frequents a certain supermarket or mall or fast-food restaurant or bar.

  If you wanted to argue on this side you’d have to pretend you believed these were all good things. Don’t we have the right to our security? To apprehend criminals? People who have nothing to hide shouldn’t worry about it.

  Strangely, how people feel about this kind of thing seems to depend on which party is doing it. It sounds so funny to hear Republicans complain about the Obama administration taking way our constitutional rights after the Bush administration passed the Patriot Act and suspended habeas corpus. But OTOH Democrats didn’t seem to mind when Clinton pushed for more power for police and government law enforcement.

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