Identity disks/stats & Profile databases?

[SJE]

So, I vaguely remember (though cant find a reference in MgT) to everyone in the 3I having an identity disk that recorded their Universal Profile and their stat line. Is that still in canon?

Furthermore, does the government keep databases of citizens Profiles? For example, if you had police PC's, could they look up known criminals for their fingerprints, DNA, histories and stat lines?

Thx.

SJE

 

[Greylond]

I'm not sure either. I haven't found it in any MgT stuff that I own. But it seems perfectly reasonable. Law Enforcement everywhere has a tendency to want to accumulate identity data. It is both a source of privacy invasion and crime solving tool at the same time.

 

[aramis]

So, I vaguely remember (though cant find a reference in MgT) to everyone in the 3I having an identity disk that recorded their Universal Profile and their stat line. Is that still in canon?

Furthermore, does the government keep databases of citizens Profiles? For example, if you had police PC's, could they look up known criminals for their fingerprints, DNA, histories and stat lines?

Thx.

SJE

You're looking in the wrong edition, IIRC. I know there's a reference to ID in T4.

 

[Whipsnade]

You're looking in the wrong edition, IIRC. I know there's a reference to ID in T4.

It's a sidebar in M:0. I also believe the OP's memory has conflated both the program and it's attributes.

IIRC - IIRC - the ID program is limited to hi-tech, hi-pop worlds within the new Imperium. Backwater and fringe worlds may have the ability to scan an ID and/or read the data on it, but they really can't check an ID's authenticity. I was intrigued by the prospect of IDs, especially the idea of chipped weapons, when I first read M:0.

Also, while an ID does include and use biometric data, it's not going to list UPPs and stat lines. Despite the fact they appear on the forms in CT's S:12, those are meta-game constructs much like the UWP or USP.

The Imperium would have biometric data on anyone who has worked for it. Just how far that data is disseminated is another question.

As for purely planetary IDs, their scope and attributes will depend on a host of technological and sociological factors.

 

[Darkwing]

IIRC - IIRC - the ID program is limited to hi-tech, hi-pop worlds within the new Imperium. Backwater and fringe worlds may have the ability to scan an ID and/or read the data on it, but they really can't check an ID's authenticity. I was intrigued by the prospect of IDs, especially the idea of chipped weapons, when I first read M:0.

Which raises a question and a connection to the weapons thread - what law levels might require (assuming the TL exists there for them) recognition grip weapons? Might that weapon's biometric recognition be recognized on those lower tech worlds as a valid means of authenticating an ID?
And what other features would the ID, biometric scanners, and recognition grips have? I've been thinking of adding in Minority Report style retinal scanner hoverdrones in the Occupied Rim and the worst of the Solomani Sphere.

 

[HG_B]

Furthermore, does the government keep databases of citizens Profiles? For example, if you had police PC's, could they look up known criminals for their fingerprints, DNA, histories and stat lines?

Depends entirely on the planetary law level + TL