This article on my favorite online newspaper this morning as I woke up....
It seems that "Real I.D." is here and is law and it will affect everyone personally the next time they go to renew their drivers liscence.
This new identification card has lots more to it than this story tells about.
With this I.D. there is rumor that the card itself will contain a whole slew of information regarding your personal history...so much information that it is to be akin to "your entire life" on a card.
As this guy (link to article below) so elequently puts it, I guess most of that information is already available:
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0802/0802files.htm
So alot of information is already out there but I truly feel this card is a bit unnessicary. But according to a bunch of stories I have read in the past few years, it will be almost impossible to live a day to day life (traveling, banking ect) without one of these cards...
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=607401
Click on link- above- for full story
Welcome to 1984....a few years late...
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Friday, May 18, 2007
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
The Federal Government and it's Role in our Daily Lives
I was reading an article relating to the intrusions of the federal government into our daily lives and I came across this comment from a reader in response to that article.
(The article talked about the government's request to have phone records and driving records maintained in a national database of sorts).
Link to that story below:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070308/181842.shtml#comments
The person that wrote the following response says pretty much everything I agree with:
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The government was never supposed to have the ability to do such things. They shouldn't monitor our behaviours, spending habits, or our general day to day activites.
The FEDERAL Government is only supposed to be in place to do the things that the local and state governments cannot. Such as enter into treaties with other countires, collect taxes for the services offered, and have a military force.
Congress should not be allowed to enact a law that requires every ISP in America to retain data on it's users. Quite frankly they shouldn't be able to tell a business what they can or cannot do; that's up to the cities and states to decide.
So when the goverment starts tracking where our car has been, and how crooked politicians can be, it wouldn't take long for them to start using the data they've collected with malicious intent.
As far as us "privacy advocates" go we happen to understand there's a Constitution of the United STATES of America.
Not a Constituion of the sole governing body of Washington D.C.
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness doesn't mean the goverment should be there to restrict our abilites to function. Instead of them prying into every aspect of our personal lives, they should only be there to interveen where a communities ability to resolve a conflict fails.
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I esp. like the last sentance. I think it says it all..
(The article talked about the government's request to have phone records and driving records maintained in a national database of sorts).
Link to that story below:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070308/181842.shtml#comments
The person that wrote the following response says pretty much everything I agree with:
___________________________________________________________________
The government was never supposed to have the ability to do such things. They shouldn't monitor our behaviours, spending habits, or our general day to day activites.
The FEDERAL Government is only supposed to be in place to do the things that the local and state governments cannot. Such as enter into treaties with other countires, collect taxes for the services offered, and have a military force.
Congress should not be allowed to enact a law that requires every ISP in America to retain data on it's users. Quite frankly they shouldn't be able to tell a business what they can or cannot do; that's up to the cities and states to decide.
So when the goverment starts tracking where our car has been, and how crooked politicians can be, it wouldn't take long for them to start using the data they've collected with malicious intent.
As far as us "privacy advocates" go we happen to understand there's a Constitution of the United STATES of America.
Not a Constituion of the sole governing body of Washington D.C.
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness doesn't mean the goverment should be there to restrict our abilites to function. Instead of them prying into every aspect of our personal lives, they should only be there to interveen where a communities ability to resolve a conflict fails.
_____________________________________________________________
I esp. like the last sentance. I think it says it all..
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