Oh dear,
There goes my anonymity! ;-)
(Don't you wish the Globe would have shorter URLs!)
Peter Hope-Tindall
dataPrivacy Partners Ltd.
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-----Original Message-----
From: "David Akin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Canadian Cryptography Mailing List" <crypto-
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Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 08:44:07 -0500
Subject: RE: [Crypto-Canada] of interest
>
> > > ----------
> > > From: Angelo Castellano[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 3:16:29 PM
> > >
> > 'Smart' cards could hold raft of data on Ontarians
> >
> http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/RTGAMArticleHTMLTemplate/C/200012
> 31/Ws
> >
> mar?tf=RT/fullstory.html&cf=RT/config-neutral&slug=Wsmar&date=2000123
> 1&arc
> > hive=RTGAM&site=Front
>
> '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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