This concept turns your SS card into a gadget. The Troika Social Security card concept comes with a built-in thumbprint reader, buttons that can change the display from your Social Security info to your Driver’s License or passport.
That way, you can carry just one card on your person and have everything. It features an aluminum body, so it would be tough. The drawback is that if you lose it, you lose everything. And if a identity theif gets it, they get everything, because no matter how good that thumbprint reader is, it can be hacked.
Not a bad idea, just needs some fine tuning.
[Dvice]
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card, concept, Social Security, Troika
or, instead of carrying all of the information on the card, you have some basic/public/useful information (like name, birthdate, blood type / allergies), a large quality picture, and a single unique number displayed on the card in several ways — plain text, bar code, magstrip, qcode. then, let this number be an index into whatever sources store your information — like databases for DMV, AAA membership, or even credit cards. then, all you have to do is show the card, and whoever needs the info will swipe/scan it with their approved tool, which will connect to the appropriate database and return the relevant information. so if your card is stolen, the thief only gets a number, but all of your important info is stored somewhere else and *SHOULD* be safely encrypted/obfuscated/etc and can only be accessed by legitimate equipment. then the only risk is if someone steals the scanning equipment, or hacks into the (already existing) database (which is what we live in fear of anyway). much less fear of losing the card, and this way you wouldn’t need to carry 50 different membership cards in the wallet, just one that those groups would reference your UID number.