[clue-talk] national ID card

[dennisjperkins at comcast.net]

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From: "Jed S. Baer" <cluemail-jsb at freedomsight.net>
> 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.
> 

I didn't know about that one.