No ID Cards in the Future

dmf writes "Throw away your identification cards! CNet is running a commentary piece on what the author perceives to be contradictions of privacy as technology continues to evolve our future. What boggles the mind is how social forecasters can so easily bypass longstanding privacy concerns by simply ignoring the horrific examples of abusive governments throughout history. How can a responsible thinker so easily shrug off the need to protect oneself from the unknown abuses of the future just because one may think things are relatively agreeable at present?"

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Not quite accurate

[ThinkingGuy]

The Straight Dope on Hitler and gun control

Bread & Circus

[limekiller4]

michael writes:
"How can a responsible thinker so easily shrug off the need to protect oneself from the unknown abuses of the future just because one may think things are relatively agreeable at present?"

A lethal combination of:

• Bread & circuses.
• Those that do not know history are condemned to repeat it.
• Current Question == Unpatriotic perception.

Any of these suck, alone. Together it could get nasty.

Have you READ the patriot act? I have

[enkidu]

And so have these people. They articulate the problems with the PATRIOT act much better than I could hope to, so I will defer to their eloquence.

The ACLU has a good summary of what you're asking for here: http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID =12263&c=206

The EFF has their analysis here: http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/Terrorism_ militias/20011031_eff_usa_patriot_analysis.html.

And the Center for Democracy & Technology has a long list of links here: http://www.cdt.org/security/usapatriot/analysis.sh tml

Now go read at least one of these links before making anymore comments on how you don't think the Patriot act isn't bad for your freedom. EnkiduEOT