The Process Of Elimination
What is identity? Why is protecting it so vital to ones core? Is your identity worth protecting?
Here are several important and answerable questions that normally don’t come to mind until yours is questionably congenially entangled in a maze of impropriety.
Every show, these days, from finding love to winning millions, is done through a process of elimination.
Is it your belief that your identity is attached to your name, appearance, or even your occupation?
Unfortunately, all of the above in some form or fashion has been eliminated to a number. Yes, you are just a bar code…a Social Security number in many societies. More than 150 countries use this account number. China, Brazil, Nigeria, Russia, Iran are just a handful of countless countries that recognizes their countrymen as a nine digit entity. The list can go on, however one slip—one wrong digit input and you are not the entity associated with this number.
What is this number? The first three digits provide the geography of your birth. See, location, location, location is still everything.
Consider, just for a moment, a living man or woman who has been incorrectly eradicated–declared dead because of incorrect data input. It would take countless persistent phone calls and maybe some visits; endless paperwork to be submitted and re-submitted in order to be “re-instated.” Most likely the information as to how the person “died” would be considered a confidential top-secret code. Actually, to get things rectified could take many, many, many months and you could possible “die” while you wait.
Clerical errors are, often times denied, the leading factor of major identification mix-ups. New technology and the breaching thereof is almost always the factor for misrepresented and stolen numbers. Either way, you remain a number in the system.
Because the Social Security number is global and heavily relied upon in the public and private sectors, this number has a way of being misconstrued and used improperly by many, no matter what it was originally envisioned as.
More than half of the U.S. is considering legislation banning the use of Social Security numbers in order to identify people. Universities and other entities have already discontinued the use of this number because of such widespread rapid fraud vastly due to keystroke technology. We can possibly look forward to not being treated like herds of cattle in the near future however, despite the implausible implementations being considered, scams, reported and grossly underreported (due to embarrassment) and intimidation to continue applying this number for easy accessibility to one’s jugular remains the norm.
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