Are You Ready for National Identity Cards?
This has nothing to do with ebooks, but I think it is important enough to speak out on, even here. In less than 48 hours, on Tuesday 10 May, 2005, the US Senate is set to vote on a bill which contains the Real ID Act. This will impose national identity cards on every US citizen, and the Senate will not even debate the issue. It has already passed the US House.
UnRealID.com: "The Real ID Act has never been debated on the US Senate floor. They've never talked about it in any committee. Heck, most of them haven't even read it! Yet they're planning to vote on it on Tuesday, no questions asked."
Will you have to show this national ID to check out books from a library, to buy beer, to enter public buildings that you paid for with you tax money? Will you have to show this ID to any cop that stops you on the street? Who will have access to the data, private industry, your insurance company, your employer?
If this makes you even just a little bit nervous and would at least like the idea of mandatory national identity cards to be debated then you should go to the website above and inform yourself on the subject and use the form on that site to email your US Senators. Before it is too late.
Source: Boing Boing
1 Comments:
Well. In my homeland, Denmark in Europe, they have been used for years. The card contains your name, adress and social security number.
The card is used for various purposes. Like: checking out books from a library, buying beer (if the seller believes you to be to young) and in case you get sick.
So I fail to see any problems with having a national identity card.
I do agree with your point about the bill not being debated. Such changes should always be debated and, true, there is the issue of access to informations. The info mentioned early in my post are available to any you need to have dealings with.
So my employer and insurrance for example would have access to such info.
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