[clue-talk] national ID card

[Jed S. Baer]

On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 11:42:27 -0600
Dennis J Perkins wrote:

> Have you considered why Western Europe has strong privacy laws?  What
> happened when the Nazis conquered a country?  They used the records to
> arrest Jews and possible opponents.

To say nothing of the fact that the U.S. govt. used Census records to
locate Japanese people during WWII.

See http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/06/risks_of_data_r.html for
Bruce Schneiers relevant remarks.