{"id":1518,"date":"2005-01-16T10:34:28","date_gmt":"2005-01-16T17:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/sofort-mit-ihren-papieren\/"},"modified":"2005-01-16T10:34:28","modified_gmt":"2005-01-16T17:34:28","slug":"sofort-mit-ihren-papieren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/sofort-mit-ihren-papieren\/","title":{"rendered":"Sofort mit Ihren Papieren!"},"content":{"rendered":"

ID card plan pits privacy vs. security<\/a> By ROBERT TANNER<\/p>\n

Privacy advocates warn that the new federal standards for driver’s licenses will effectively create a national ID card, centralizing information that can be misused — by letting the government track the whereabouts of innocent people<\/b>, for instance. Government officials say they’re just making the cards more secure, and that the worries are overblown. …<\/p>\n

States can opt out — refuse to make changes to their driver’s licenses that will be required under the federal law — but then the licenses would be useless<\/b> for any federal purpose, from getting benefits to boarding an airplane guarded by federal screeners. …<\/p>\n

Many of the law’s specifics have yet to be decided. Will licenses include biometric information like fingerprints or retinal scans? Will “machine-readable” mean bar codes or radio frequency identification systems — in which a tiny computer chip transmits data and can theoretically be used to track location?<\/b> …<\/p>\n

Civil libertarians warn that the push to make the driver’s license the “gold standard” for ID will only make it easier to steal someone’s identity — and will increase the value of counterfeit licenses, undermining the hopes that these steps will provide better security. …<\/p>\n

The biggest danger is that, as the nation becomes more security-minded, and relies more on driver’s licenses as ID, our society changes, Johnson said. “You just wind up being a nation where you have to show your papers to go anyplace. That’s something the American people have never put up with.”<\/b><\/p>\n

Until the Radical Right conquered America through fear. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ID card plan pits privacy vs. security By ROBERT TANNER Privacy advocates warn that the new federal standards for driver’s licenses will effectively create a national ID card, centralizing information that can be misused — by letting the government track the whereabouts of innocent people, for instance. Government officials say they’re just making the cards … Continue reading Sofort mit Ihren Papieren!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}