They call it the "2004 Driver Licensing and Identification Security Forum". But what it really is about is making "one individual, one document, one database record" -- in other words, one national ID per person in the US, that happens to be issued by the US states (and Canadian provinces and Mexican states). Join the bureaucrats who are plotting to make this happen, in scenic Houston, Feb 26-29. (Don't forget to show your ID to travel there, and also to check in to the Westin Galleria, "of course". That requirement is why I won't be there; I'm under regional arrest because I refuse to get, or show, such an ID.) Feb 29th is specially set aside as "Canada Day" for dealing with how Canadian provinces are going to issue these coordinated "US National IDs". http://www.aamva.org/events/mnu_evt2004IDSecuritySummit.asp (Meeting Contact: Lucia Osterbind, +1 703 522 4200) This AAMVA project is a multi-year effort that started before 9/11 but accelerated afterward, in a misguided attempt to categorize and file every person on the continent so we'll then know all the "good guys" from the "bad guys" and can merely lock up all the bad guys and then we'll feel safe. The bills that authorize and enable this cross-state collaboration are due to be introduced in state legislatures STARTING NOW, and need active opposition from local privacy groups. But first, you need information about what they're up to -- so attend. Privacy activists and journalists should converge on this conference, to find out what's really happening, and to ask them if they've lost their minds. Curiously, the scheme is being perpetrated by middle level bureaucrats in state motor vehicle agencies, who actually think they are doing good for the world by tracking every citizen from the cradle to the grave. Privacy activists have been absent from their deliberations for years. Neither their bosses the Governors, nor their own legislatures, know what they are up to. (The Feds are in it up to their armpits, of course, but only as "advisors".) John Gilmore _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as eugen@leitl.org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net