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Re: National id already here?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Thu Apr 4 03:54:48 1996

Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 00:32:26 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>

At 04:35 PM 4/3/96 -0800, Yap Remailer <remailer@yap.pactitle.com> wrote:
>http://www.aamva.net/AAMVAnet_New_Systems.html says:
>    Coman said [police] officers can use "CDLISCheck" to access commercial
>    driver license status, history and AKA information. She noted that
>    the new service was developed in response to a Congressional mandate
>    that requires access to commercial carrier and driver information by
>    at least 100 roadside sites by 1996 and at least 200 locations by 1997.
>
>There's a congressional mandate for nationwide online id???

There are a lot more regulations on interstate truckers than on most people;
it's somewhat within the Constitutional guidelines.


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