-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of ScanThisNews Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 4:59 PM To: ScanThisNews Recipients List Subject: [FP] DPPA: AAMVA, EPIC & FTF
SCAN THIS NEWS 1.21.2002 Mark Rotenberg, EPIC, July 15, 1999 Electronic Privacy Information Center 666 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, DC 20003 http://www.epic.org/privacy/drivers/EPIC_DPPA_Brief.pdf "[The DPPA] is a valid exercise of federal authority... ." "The DPPA is a legitimate exercise of Congress�s authority... ." "For these reasons, we respectfully urge the Court to reverse the decision of the lower court [and uphold the DPPA]." --- Scott McDonald, FightTheFingerprint, January 13, 2000: http://www.networkusa.org/fingerprint/page1b/fp-dppa-bigbrother.html "The ruling ... by the US Supreme Court [upholding the Driver's Privacy Protection Act] paves the way for Big Brother to establish centralized databases on every citizen." "[Under DPPA] records may be used to establish a database of driver's records that will be used to 'prevent fraud.' This exception will likely result in the development of a central database of all drivers from across the country, effectively creating a single national identification database managed by Big Brother." --- AAMVA President and CEO, Linda Lewis, January 14, 2002: http://www.networkusa.org/fingerprint/page1b/AAMVAtranscript.html "I mentioned originally the Driver's Privacy Protection Act. What that Privacy Act [DPPA] does, it allows for fourteen permissible uses of motor vehicle record data. So when you ask me, 'Do motor vehicles share data?', yes, they do, but they do it according to the [DPPA] law." --- Scott McDonald, FightTheFingerprint, January 13, 2000: http://www.networkusa.org/fingerprint/page1b/fp-dppa-bigbrother.html "This DPPA law is the worst thing that could have happened to anyone who regards their personal information as 'theirs' and 'private.' This Act wrests control over private information held by the states away from the states and citizens and places it instead in the hands of a centralized federal government which has already expressed its intentions of developing central databases of drivers' photos and identifying data." "Some news outlets which do not fully understand the long-range implications of the DPPA -- and the true anti-privacy, big government motives behind its implementation -- have praised the Court's DPPA ruling. This is a huge mistake which will be proven out over the coming years as more and more centralized databases are established using drivers license and motor vehicle records collected under the authority of the DPPA." --- AAMVA President and CEO, Linda Lewis, January 14, 2002: http://www.networkusa.org/fingerprint/page1b/AAMVAtranscript.html "Well, there's a lot of misinformation being circulated, communicated, printed, about this huge database in the sky. And let's try to get the record straight once and for all as to what we're trying to do here. What we're trying to do is to connect databases that motor vehicle agencies currently have in place so that they are able to exchange information about drivers... ." "By legislating and funding technology such as the Driver Record Identification Verification System, known as DRIVerS, state agencies and federal agencies such as the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Social Security Administration, the Bureau of Vital Statistics -- and if necessary the Federal Bureau of Investigations -- can share information." --- Scott McDonald, FightTheFingerprint, January 17, 2000: http://www.networkusa.org/fingerprint/page1b/fp-dppa-two-models.html "Prior to the DPPA ruling, no state could be "required" to participate in any of these federal driver registry database programs; the federal government formerly had no mechanism to force state participation. States were coaxed into participation through the use of federal grants and funding-contingent programs. Prior to the DPPA ruling, not all states were fully cooperating with central database efforts." "The DPPA will now force states to cooperate with development of these and other federal registries of driver information and records. Under the authority granted by the DPPA, a central registry of every driver in every state will be developed with resultant equivalency of a national identification database." --- AAMVA President and CEO, Linda Lewis, January 14, 2002: http://www.networkusa.org/fingerprint/page1b/AAMVAtranscript.html "Our intent is to establish a Driver Record Identification System, that for every driver or person contained therein there is only one license, there is only one record, and there is only one identity." 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