Do you really want all that information about you to be accessible through one single number? At one point in the US most states would use your social security number as the number on your drivers license number, but they stopped doing that a few years back because anyone who got hold of your drivers license could get all kinds of access to your personal information. Even so a lot of government and private database are still built around the social security number and that causes all kinds of privacy problems, from confidentiality of medical records to identity theft. With the databases of major financial institutions and government agencies worldwide getting hacked on a regular basis I personally would prefer my data to be as decentralized as possible. Josh On 1/29/2012 1:41 PM, skunkworks-request@lists.my.co.ke wrote:
Message: 1 Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:21:44 +0100 From: kris njoroge<krsnjo@gmail.com> To: Skunkworks Forum<skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Subject: [Skunkworks] Just a thought Message-ID: <CAK37A++wLJNwHXD7VpvtS2BZyV43c=Z0FwBG6FOhkYpNe8KDaQ@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
What would it take to have all persons in Kenya registered and given an id number same as the one we have then extend the use of this number to identify you for life.