A Look Into National ID Cards

mr.buddylee writes "Last month Slashdot reported a Popular Science story on your privacy. This month the magazine has a couple different articles about the future of security after the attacks on 9/11. Included is a very interesting read on National ID Cards which looks at possible technologies integrated into the card. For instance, how would you like a memory strip containing a digitized image of your fingerprints, your photo, your medical history and flight history stored in your wallet? All secured with what could be a less than secure Smart Card."

Comments

Re:Nice name on the card...[explanation]

[The_Guv'na]

Winston Smith is the lead character in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty Four. A highly reccommended read.

If you keep your finger on the pulse of corporate media distortion then you'll see just how scarily close to Nineteen Eighty Four the world we live in really is. The Associated Press changes it's stories after publication to suit the suits. I need not explain the masses of new powers for those in power to snoop on us. Doublethink prevails, albeit in a more subtle form. And yes, "The proles have intellectual freedom, because they have no intellect."

Mods please note: The "Troll" moderation was doubleplusridiculous verging crackthink!

Ali

Is it Constitutional?

[MountainLogic]

There was a case in the early 80s or late 70s called Larson V. California that went to the supreme court where the court held that requiring ID was not consitutional.

The background was California had a law requiring ID. A man was stopped by police while walking down the street and for no reason ordered to produce ID. He had none and was arrested. The subtext was that he was black and the neighborhood he was in was a rich white area.

Re:Is it Constitutional?

[MountainLogic]

Found the case, it's Kolender v. Lawson:

Re:Homeland Security

[Exatron]

I thik you need to take your civics class again. The Articles of Confederation were designed to create a weak and fragmented Federal Government, which didn't work out too well. States were setting absurd taxes on goods from their neighbors and even printing their own currency. The current constitution was meant to fix that by establishing a Federal Government that had authority in matters concerning the nation as a whole and when states came into conflict. It does move slowly by design, but as a result of checks and balances against corruption and an ability to be reinterpreted rather than an attempt to keep it weak and fragmented. It's starting to show some flaws after 213 years, but it is still better than the Articles of Confederation.

Re:Homeland Security

[C0LDFusion]

Don't you remember the news reports about the shadow government that was revealed shortly after September 11th? From CNN [cnn.com]

"Shadow Government" was a slipped up term that referred to the "Secure Location" that they send important officials during dangerous situations. If you've watched any movies or paid any attention during the Reagan administration, you'd have already known about the fact that there is and has been a secure location, in case the President was immobilized. Instead of reading the facts, they heard the name "Shadow Government", and suddenly concepts of conspiracy and evil men in black came to the minds of the crazed proles.

I'm surprised you don't bring up the Globalization movement as proof of a conspiracy, instead of some government spud's freudian slip.

No, but arresting [9-11peace.org] thousands of people [cnn.com] does in most people's books. Don't forget many of these people were not charged with anyhting

Not charged with anything except joining terrorist orgs, supporting tyrannical regimes, and attempting to kill American, Canadian, English, etc. troops. If I was in charge and there was no Geneva convention, I'd have hung half those m0f0's up by their balls until they die, and I'd take the other half, give 'em a Gauntlet and take $100 per head for anyone wanting to play the most realistic Quake 3 multiplayer. It'd give new F'N meaning to "LAN Party".