A Look Into National ID Cards

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday August 16, 2002 @10:36AM from the homesec dept.

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."

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Is it Constitutional? by MountainLogic · 2002-08-16 11:09 · Score: 5, Informative

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.