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Right. I understand the government is pushing companies into doing this. Either way, that doesn't make right. There was a presidential candidate (Ron Paul) who spoke about the dangers of using a single identifier known as a Social Security Number for everything. It's that we all use a single identifier that enables identity thieves to steal people's identity. If each different institution had its own unique identifier, that would make it much harder for identity thieves.
Everything happening is making identity theft much more common. As if every CCBill employee is honest and ethical? As if information isn't vulnerable to hacking and ending up in the wrong hands, even unintentionally.
2257 Laws are ridiculous as well. Think about this paradox. If you want to photograph a woman nude, you are required to collect all of her personal information, her ID, obtain a signed release form, etc. This is supposedly to cut back on illegal pornography. That's a rubbish excuse. It doesn't stop illegal pornography. It just creates a new crime: failing to collect and retain all of the woman's personal information, thereby making another crime (identity theft) easier. Now, if you want to have actual sex with that same woman, as long as you don't photograph her, you need not obtain copies of her ID and personal information. Yet, pursuant to the calculus used to justify 2257 laws, why not compel every person to retain the ID and a release form for everybody they have sex with, and if the person doesn't do that, the parties involved in sex should be charged with a crime. After all, it could help "cut down" on child molestation!
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