> > ----------
> > From: Angelo Castellano[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 3:16:29 PM
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> 'Smart' cards could hold raft of data on Ontarians
> http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/RTGAMArticleHTMLTemplate/C/20001231/Ws
> mar?tf=RT/fullstory.html&cf=RT/config-neutral&slug=Wsmar&date=20001231&arc
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'course, Crypto-Canada list members who read the National Post would have
know about this story more than two years ago :)
The National Post
Friday, October 30, 1998
page A4
Ontario considering smart cards
Privacy concerns
by David Akin, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ontario intends to replace drivers licenses and health cards with a single
computerized smart card, capable of storing vast amounts of information
about an individual.
A working group of several senior bureaucrats is studying ways to replace
identification cards used to access provincial services with one
wallet-sized credit card with a computer chip on it.
No jurisdiction in North America uses such a smart card. Alberta considered
such a card for its health services but rejected the idea. B.C.'s Ministry
of Health has considered using such a card but is not pursuing the matter at
this time. Officials at other provincial health ministries reached yesterday
said they had no plans for such a card. . . . (The rest of this story is
archived at Electronic Frontier Canada's Media Archives at
http://www.efc.ca)
On this list, Peter Hope-Tindall is a key player in the Ontario initiative.
David Akin / Senior technology reporter
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