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Re: Gotta love Oracle...
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Date: 
Fri, 5 Oct 2001 20:10:23 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Horst Lehner writes:
... for offering some hot air?

Imagine, we would have been be able to identify airline passengers with 100%
accuracy even before 911. How would that have helped to prevent anything of
what happened?

That said, I don't feel like a photo and a fingerprint in my ID card by
itself affects any of my civil rights ...

Maybe the card itself is not a civil rights violations, but the many activities
for which they will use such a thing are.  First, if I'm required to disply my
shiny new Federal ID, I consider it unreasonable search.  I think of the right
to travel anonymously as a fundamental.  Further, I don't want the federal
government tracking my consumer habits through a requirement to use this card
for some or all purchases.

This whole idea makes me very edgy.

Chris



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  Re: Gotta love Oracle...
 
(...) I'm missing something in this--do you mean if you're required to display it (wearing it on your lapel) or produce it on command (hey you, show me your ID)? Either would be objectionable, I agree, but I'm curious about which you meant (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Gotta love Oracle...
 
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes: (snipped) (...) Hi Chris, Maybe the reason you are experiencing such a fear is the fact that ID card is supposed to be "High Tech"... I have had a National ID card for ten years, and I only (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.pt)

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  Re: Gotta love Oracle...
 
... for offering some hot air? Imagine, we would have been be able to identify airline passengers with 100% accuracy even before 911. How would that have helped to prevent anything of what happened? That said, I don't feel like a photo and a (...) (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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