Alternatively, should children be allowed to change their names to one in a restricted list anytime before 18, then to anything after 18?
Alternatively, should children be allowed to change their names to one in a restricted list anytime before 18, then to anything after 18?
This is a long way off, at least in Australia. Probably not for any good reason though.
Any time you propose some sort of citizen ID number scheme nutters start talking about “the mark of the beast”. It’s a biblical thing in which someone envisaged a dystopia in which everyone had an identifying mark on their forehead.
In Australia for example there was a lot of resistance to everyone being assigned a tax id number in the 80s. The law is still structured around this cultural anxiety to this day. For example, you can’t be forced by law to provide your tax id number, and every different government agency will assign you their own number.
Biometrics have their own problems. An iris scan or finger print might be ok, but I would be extraordinarily reluctant to provide my DNA to anyone under any circumstances.