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Re: A National ID
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Howe)
Tue Jun 1 11:40:48 2004
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Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 20:17:59 +0100
From: Dave Howe <DaveHowe@gmx.co.uk>
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R. A. Hettinga wrote:
> If we're going to move to a national identification card, we can't afford
> to do it badly. Now is the time to figure out how to create a card that
> helps identify people but doesn't rob them of a huge swath of their civil
> liberties in the process.
Just watch how the british do it - then don't do it that way.
I am still trying to figure out how over a decade of terrorist bombings
in mainland UK didn't justify introducing a national ID card - but the
americans wanting biometric passports for visitors does.
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