[105509] in Cypherpunks
national ID cards in the US...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Avon)
Fri Nov 13 14:14:25 1998
From: "Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net>
To: "Canadian Firearm Digest" <cdn-firearms-digest@broadway.sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca>,
"=?iso-8859-1?q?Le_Qu=E9becois_Libre?=" <libre@colba.net>,
"Cypherpunks" <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:38:50 -0500
Reply-To: "Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net>
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Hi! I received that today. Maybe it can interest some of you.
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I Am Not a Number! Policy Spotlight on National ID Cards
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http://www.free-market.net/features/spotlight/9811.html
While most of us weren't looking, the U.S. Congress passed two bills
that effectively authorize national ID cards. One was a law to reform
health insurance that included a provision for a "Unique Patient
Identifier." The other was an immigration law that required all U.S.
states to include Social Security numbers on drivers' licenses.
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Ciao
jfa
"Cryptography is like literacy in the Dark Ages. Infinitely potent, for good and ill... yet basically an intellectual construct, an idea, which by its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who deem only themselves worthy of such Privilege."
_ A thinking man's Creed for Crypto/ vbm.
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I Am Not a Number! Policy Spotlight on National ID Cards<BR>
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While most of us weren't looking, the U.S. Congress passed two bills<BR>
that effectively authorize national ID cards. One was a law to reform<BR>
health insurance that included a provision for a "Unique Patient<BR>
Identifier." The other was an immigration law that required all U.S.<BR>
states to include Social Security numbers on drivers' licenses.<BR>
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Ciao<BR>
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jfa<BR>
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"Cryptography is like literacy in the Dark Ages. Infinitely potent, for good and ill... yet basically an intellectual construct, an idea, which by its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who deem only themselves worthy of such Privilege."<br>
_ A thinking man's Creed for Crypto/ vbm.<br>
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