Australia had a fight about this some few years ago (the ID card fans lost): http://www.privacy.org/pi/activities/idcard/ Some articles I've written over similar proposals in the U.S. over the last three or four years: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,20881,00.html http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,15635,00.html ********* Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 20:30:27 +0200 To: declanat_private From: Jose M Guardia <josegat_private> Subject: Re: FC: Oracle's Larry Ellison urges national ID card for Americans In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010924004009.020401d0at_private> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-UIDL: 94e4dd62695af0ce6758eec62e1d42e7 >>As an Oracle investor for many years, I am ashamed that the President >>and CEO of a company I have long-owned is adopting the fascist and >>statist policies reminiscent of Nazi Germany. Hi, In fact, a mandatory ID is *current* policy all over Western Europe. I'm not implying it should be also in the US, I just wanted to clarify the fact that it's something "normal" in democratic countries as well. Best Jose *************************************************** Jose M Guardia Internet, Media & Technology Analyst Barcelona, Spain Ph. (++34) 629-74-26-24 E-mail: josegat_private www.guardiasociados.com *************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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