Brill's Contentious ID Card

pwackerly writes "The New York Times (illegal kidney sale required) is running a story on a private venture funded by the man behind CourtTV to sell ID cards that let you bypass security, both national (airports) and private (your business's lobby). Outside of the standard national ID concerns, now we'd have to worry about a terrorist stealing our super-secret ID from our wallet. Don't these people learn anything from reading 'Mostly Harmless?'"

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Brill's just the Shill... (for Choicepoint)

[bmasel]

The real player here is Choicepoint, whose database will be used to determine who gets an ID. That's right, the same folks Katherine Harris hired to purge the Florida voter rolls of "convicted felons" in 2000, striking thousands of mostly Black electors for having the same, or similar, names as actual felons.

(I'll trust the replies to provide links.)

I wouldn't

[sideshow]

Our personal freedoms are restricted too much as it is. I'd rather live my life with a chance of being blown up by a terrorist rather then live in a police state.