Also see: http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/nation/docs/idcard17.htm ID card idea attracts high-level support
And: http://www0.mercurycenter.com/business/top/033152.htm A modest proposal for national IDs http://opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=95001336 Smart Cards, by Larry Ellison -Declan ********* http://www.nationalreview.com/daily/nr101901.shtml >October 19, 2001 >By John J. Miller and Ramesh Ponnuru > >BAD ORACLE >ID cards pick up steam. > >Word that Oracle chairman and CEO Larry Ellison met with Attorney >General John Ashcroft on Tuesday raises the prospect that the Bush >administration is contemplating the adoption of a national ID card. "We >are in the process of putting a proposal together and analyzing what it >would take to get something running in a matter of a small number of >months, like three months, 90 days," Ellison told the San Jose Mercury >News. Three weeks ago, Ellison said his company, a leader in databases, >would donate the software to the federal government. > >In late September, a low-level White House spokesman denied ID cards >were on the table. Yet the idea appears to be gaining momentum: Recent >endorsers include Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.), retired General >Norman Schwartzkopf, Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz, and Sun >Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy. Ashcroft himself refused to comment this >week on the Ellison's proposal or their meeting. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
