Such drawbacks have not stopped a host of European countries, including Germany, France and Spain, from adopting ID systems.

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This will allow other websites to use logins for Gmail and other Google services alongside their own ID systems.

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But while we are making these excuses, countries in the developing world are doing incredible things with their ID systems.

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This leads to the fact that if a copy is correct, security systems based on object ID verification are not capable of distinguishing between the two.

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Data can be moved in and out of the chip at speeds of up to 10 megabits per second - far faster than is possible with other short-range radio systems such as Bluetooth or Radio Frequency ID tags.

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Now this may not seem relevant until you consider that some credit card and other systems authenticate callers by the same last four digits of the card plus the caller ID from their originating phone number.

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