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The center column displays the case itself -- on this page you see National ID Card: Protection or Intrusion. Hypertext links take the learner to additional media related to the case or to closely connected resources. All links open in new browser windows to avoid a "lost learner." | The right column features the themes -- only those related to this particular case will appear. In the final version of the CFH, each theme button will activate a smaller window describing the theme and displaying hyperlinks to other cases that share the same theme. Learners may access these themes at any at any time and may add themes to the collection. |
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National ID Card: Protection or Intrusion? The following quote is from the transcript of a McLaughlin Group broadcast. The show was taped on Friday, March 22, 2002 and aired the weekend of March 30-31. The quote below was retrieved from the McLaughlin Group website on April 20, 2002:
LT. ANNE MARIE SCHWARTZ: (From videotape.) Can I see your papers, please? And yours, Fraulein?
MR. MCLAUGHLIN: To Americans, that chilling request is the image long associated with national identity cards. But the image may be changing, as a result of September 11th. A Harris Poll conducted immediately thereafter found that 68 percent of Americans favored a national I.D. system. Even renowned civil rights influentials support a national I.D. Quote, "We need to distinguish between a right to privacy, which I believe in, and a right to anonymity, which I no longer believe in," unquote.
But that 68 percent of late has slipped to 26 percent. Under review are so-called smart cards, especially biometric cards like scans of the retina and fingerprints. The scans are linked to databases. The Department of Defense is already issuing smart cards to more than 4 million service members. ...Question: Is a national identity card synonymous with a total loss of personal privacy?View the video or read the entire transcript. Video download or transcript available at http://www.mclaughlin.com/ through the TMG Library Search by date: March 29, 2002 Search by topic: national Identity card |
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Rights
Groups Oppose National ID Card: State Agencies Want More Secure Driver's
License Systems By Robert O'Harrow Jr., Washington Post Staff Writer http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/business/specials/privacy/robertoharrow/ |
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Support
for ID Cards Waning Perspective of the Average American http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,51000,00.html |
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Digital
IDs Can Help Prevent Terrorism By Larry Ellison, the founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, from The Wall Street Journal, October 8, 2001 http://www.oracle.com/corporate/index.html?digitalid.html |
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The
Case for a National ID Card Margaret Carlson, Time Magazine columnist http://www.time.com/time/columnist/carlson/article/0,9565,193705,00.html |
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What's
Our National Identity? By Duncan Frissell, New York attorney for SierraTimes.com™ A Subsidiary of J.J. Johnson Enterprises, Inc. http://www.sierratimes.com/archive/files/dec/06/eddf120601.htm |
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Identity
Card Delusions Simson Garfinkel,author of Database Nation (O'Reilly, 2000) The Net Effect http://www.techreview.com/articles/garfinkel0402.asp |
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Letter
of 2/12/02 to President Bush in opposition of National ID Card
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