All Posts Tagged With: "national ID"

Yet Again with the National ID

Fresh from their defeat in forcing national identity papers on us with REAL ID, the feds are trying once more. Their plea this time isn’t terrorism but immigration—though they’re pretty much the same, according to the State. Introduced in 2005 to combat the waves of terrorists thronging our shores, REAL ID was supposed to thwart [...]

29Jun2010 | Becky Akers | 14 comments | Continued

The State’s Quest for Total Information Awareness

David Brown is a freelance writer and editor. This is the second of two parts. Efforts to transform the United States into a surveillance regime on a totalitarian or quasi-totalitarian model are currently underway. In addition to attempts to beef up and make uniform the state driver’s licenses-thereby blending them into either a de facto [...]

1May2003 | David M. Brown | 4 comments | Continued

The Pentagon Ramps Up the War on Privacy

David Brown is a freelance writer and editor. This is the first of two parts. [Editor's Note: As we went to press the U.S. Congress had hampered the Defense Department's ability to carry out the threat to privacy discussed in the following article.  Under the provision adopted the Pentagon cannot proceed until it assesses for [...]

1Apr2003 | David M. Brown | 0 comments | Continued

Your Social Insecurity Number

Garry Wang is a writer living in Canada. Some advocates of a national ID card profess to be concerned about the personal security of individuals. They lament the ease with which current ID requirements may be sidestepped by those who would violate an individual’s privacy in order to perpetrate such crimes as credit-card fraud or [...]

1Feb2003 | Garry Wang | 0 comments | Continued

The Danger of National Identification

It seems innocuous. What could be so sinister about finding out who people are? But the national identification regime that some in government and the media want to establish in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks would likely do much to threaten individual privacy and security while doing little in itself to prevent terrorism. [...]

1Oct2002 | David M. Brown | 4 comments | Continued

The Right to Be Left Alone

“The makers of the Constitution conferred the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by all civilized men—the right to be let alone.” -Justice Louis D. Brandeis According to Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence, one of the “repeated injuries and usurpations” committed against the American people by the King of England [...]

1May2002 | Mark Skousen | 1 comment | Continued

Ignoring Real Privacy Problems

James Plummer is a policy analyst with Consumer Alert, a nonpartisan market-oriented consumer group based in Washington, D.C. The folks who make up the behemoth known as the federal government have been fretting about privacy, especially Privacy in the Information Age. Proposed commissions, innumerable conferences, and government reports hype the “danger” posed by online booksellers’ [...]

1Dec2000 | James Plummer | 5 comments | Continued

A Number, Not a Name: Big Brother by Stealth

Claire Wolfe is a writer in Tacoma, Washington. © Claire Wolfe, 1998. When Representative Dan Schaefer of Colorado held a consumer protection seminar in October 1997, he thought he was going to educate constituents about guarding their privacy against con artists. Instead, it was Schaefer who got an education. “My concern with privacy,” snapped the [...]

1May1998 | Claire Wolfe | 1 comment | Continued

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