The legal you is an increasingly documented entity, a single record in a vast and growing database. A political data point that was born with, has earned or has been granted certain rights and permissions - everything from driving a car . . .
The legal you is an increasingly documented entity, a single record in a vast and growing database. A political data point that was born with, has earned or has been granted certain rights and permissions - everything from driving a car or buying a beer to voting, and purchasing goods or services with a piece of plastic. Yet, if you're like most Americans, the one right you hold most sacred is not explicitly guaranteed in the Constitution - the right to privacy. The more you are documented, the less private you can be.

That conflict is about to become very heated.

As dueling standards emerged last month, it became clear that each of us is likely to become a fully documented digital entity. The only questions left are who will be doing the documenting, why will they be doing it and how will we protect our civil liberties?

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