Earth 172

An Earth where everyone's information is kept and accessed through a super database called the Exodrive.
== History (Dates TBD) ==
* The invention of a hard drive capable of storing an Exobite of data is developed
* .A Coalition of primary care physicians adopts a standardized form format to simplify and streamline administrative burden. Over time, Specialists and eventually hospitals adopt this system.
* The Exodrive is launched as an online drive system for storing documents, pictures, and the like.
* The University of Pittsburgh medical center is the first hospital to digitize all records into the Exodrive. Other hospitals later follow, making hospital transfers easier than ever before.
* Various physician coalitions join the hospital network.
* As nearly all hospitals in the US adopt the system, these accessible records begin to be colloquially referred to as MediRecs.
* The United States Medical Record Committee (USMRC), an oversight group, is established for MediRec Maintenance. The MediRec system begins to be adopted in Canada and parts of the UK.
* The Child Safety and Care act is passed, requiring all children's medical records to be enrolled into the Exodrive with a corresponding ID number so that any child admitted into a hospital or emergency room can have all relevant records can be pulled up at a moment's notice
* Protective parents begin making/buying bracelets for their children with each's ID number on it. This trend grows until a standard-issue ID bracelet is given at upon enrollment
* Hospitals begin offering adults enrollment in the ID system, as well as continued use for kids becoming adults.
* The Child Safety and Care Act is renewed and expanded to all citizens, under the more generic name "Safety and Care Act" (SCA).
* Law enforcement begins issuing warrants for MediRecs in investigations and in tracking missing parolees.
* Hospitals and Police corroborate records so that hospitals can be aware of any violent history of admittees (e.g. a pedophile's criminal record comes up with records at ER, and is subsequently placed as far away from the children's unit as possible)
* Added saved payment feature for frequent hospital guests. The idea catches on with banks, who add their records to the existing system.
* One by one, different industries add themselves to the network of the Exodrive.
* Privacy Riots a.k.a. The Unidentified Person Rebellion: People protest the mass use of IDs, sometimes via public ID bracelet burning. Eventually, groups begin creating off-grid settlements.
* As a result of the riots and bracelet burning, the government begins requiring adults to have the ID code tattoed on the wrist.
* Back-alley tattooing creates an Identity theft crisis, leading to the temporary nationalization of the ink industry. Control is lifted after a special new type of ink is developed and implemented for the government's exclusive use.
* More detail to follow
== Uses of the Exodrive and Universal ID codes ==
* Check-in at doctors' offices and hospitals
* Paying for groceries
* Getting charged with traffic tickets
* Applying for colleges, apartments, and loans
* Clocking in and out of work
* Secure building access
* Signing into cloud accounts on public use computers
* Background checks
* Age check for bars and clubs
* Body identification in cases of homicide
* Refilling prescriptions at the pharmacy