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."

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as long

[geekoid]

as there is a federal law that states I dn't have to use it if I don't want to and that its illegal for any non medical person to see any more then my photo, and that anybody who wnats to get my fingure prints needs a search warrant, and there are no repercusions for not using it, and I don't have to use to move around the country, I have no problem with it.
oh yeah, I also want a pony.

Re:Lets see...

[geekoid]

I can sign you up.
Please email me your name address ssn bank acount numbers, mothers maiden name, a copy of your finger prints.

Not only will sending me this info get you signed up, it will also increase your penis size.

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.

Necesary and Propper

[bsDaemon]

Since Andrew Jackson the federal government has been overstepping its constitutional boundries little by little. "To control the mob is to control Rome; To control Rome is to control the mob". I campaigned for Bush. I actualy believed in him. Now I believe that he's no better than Adolph fucking Hitler. This Bearu of Homeland Security coupled with this new "citizen watch" (I don't remeber the offical name of the programme) put together a package that communist east germany would have been jealouse of.

I strongly suspect that its nearing the time to invoke our moral right to alter or abolish a government when it has become destructive to the end for which it was created, a la the Declaration of Independence.

Re:Homeland Security

[cosmosis]

Yes, indeed. Never in our 225 year history has there ever been such a phrase used in our venacular - I find the eerie 'Homeland' very close to 'Fatherland' more than a coincidence and just downright creepy. Along with this 'Homeland' we are getting everything that was instituted in Nazi Germany, only alarmningly its happening more than twice as fast.

I find the following quote sadly ironic:

Two recent political leaders allegedly had this
nefarious habit (cocaine).

Both came to power after dubious elections, by
non-electorial and irregular methods.

Both nations immediately experienced attacks on famous
public buildings.

Both blamed an ethnic minority before forensics had
any evidence.

Both led "witch-hunts" against the accused minority.

Both suspended civil liberties "temporarily."

Both put the citizenry under surveillance.

Both maintained secret and clandestine governments.

Both created a new agency for domestic security - one
for the Fatherland and the other for the Homeland.

Both enlisted members of the citizenry to spy on their
neighbors. see http://citizencorps.gov/tips.html

Both launched wars against most of the world.

One had a funny mustache. Can you name the other one?