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TheFLY · 06-06-2002, 09:39 AM

Laugh. And you thought just those middle eastern looking guys will be fingerprinted -- think again... I suppose I will be paying my LA parking tickets after all...

http://www.time.com/time/nation/arti...191857,00.html

What can you do about this? Supporty the EFF --
http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020116_e..._id_alert.html

"So it's more of a national ID system, a linking of Departments of Motor Vehicles ? and the records they keep on you ? across state lines, with some extra on-card security measures thrown in. For terrorists on the run (and other criminals, too, but nobody worries about them any more) the plan means that a state trooper in California would be able to pull the records of a driver from Georgia ? and be certain that those records were the driver's, and not an innocent lookalike he stole the card from.

For the rest of us, this wouldn't be so different than what's already in place. The standardized databases would save the California state trooper a phone call to Atlanta; he'd be able to run a nationwide check from his car. And the smarter cards, "hardened" with biometric data, would make identity theft much trickier, at least in person. (Georgia, incidentally, already uses thumbprints on its drivers' licenses.) "

06-06-2002, 09:39 AM
TheFLY So Fucking Banned Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: http://www.thefly.net/ --- Quit your job and live off steady traffic. Posts: 11,856	National ID Cards on the way! Don't leave home without it! Laugh. And you thought just those middle eastern looking guys will be fingerprinted -- think again... I suppose I will be paying my LA parking tickets after all... http://www.time.com/time/nation/arti...191857,00.html What can you do about this? Supporty the EFF -- http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020116_e..._id_alert.html "So it's more of a national ID system, a linking of Departments of Motor Vehicles ? and the records they keep on you ? across state lines, with some extra on-card security measures thrown in. For terrorists on the run (and other criminals, too, but nobody worries about them any more) the plan means that a state trooper in California would be able to pull the records of a driver from Georgia ? and be certain that those records were the driver's, and not an innocent lookalike he stole the card from. For the rest of us, this wouldn't be so different than what's already in place. The standardized databases would save the California state trooper a phone call to Atlanta; he'd be able to run a nationwide check from his car. And the smarter cards, "hardened" with biometric data, would make identity theft much trickier, at least in person. (Georgia, incidentally, already uses thumbprints on its drivers' licenses.) "