From bill.stewart@pobox.com Fri Feb 6 18:50:28 1998
How did you CA cypherpunks feel about being fingerprinted?
Well, if I'd been thinking about it, I'd have put some rubber cement and whiteout on my thumb before getting the license :-)
More the issue at the time was that the politicians were busy deciding that your ability to drive safely obviously depended on whether your citizenship papers were in order (the month I got it they'd temporarily stopped doing that.)
But it is being rolled out all over, state-by-state, never a vote. They don't have problems with illegal aliens in Georgia, USA. A mercifully brief CM excerpt: * Dr. Linda Thompson: * YOUR STATE IS NEXT AND DON'T THINK OTHERWISE. Sandia and other defense * contractors, without a war elsewhere, are OUT OF WORK, so they're * creating job security for themselves by helping fascists wage war in the * United States on us and our rights!! * * Georgia, Texas and Oregon ALREADY require fingerprints for licenses.
California is already fingerprinting drivers, and many places outside of the US are creating identity cards with barcoded information.
Also, AmSouth and Compass Banks will soon introduce fingerprinting of people who cash checks and have no account with their bank. This is now standard practice in Texas and will soon be nation-wide.
Oregon? It's like Wired magazine reported: the NSA is behind it all. The DMV records are online 24 hours for FBI access.
I recently renewed the license, and they didn't ask for papers or thumbprints...
They already got your number. When will some group express organized opposition to this? ---guy Your fingerprint tattoo.