Proverbial

In China:

Anyone can now send a text message or visit the country’s population information center’s website, to check if the name and the ID number of a person’s identity card match. If they do match the ID cardholder’s picture also appears, said the Ministry, adding that no other information is available to ensure a citizen’s privacy is protected.

Once again, I’m only counting the time until some lawmaker around here thinks this is a great idea. We already have the compulsory federal IDs with fingerprints part down.