-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Life is a Cabaret, my friends. on Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 12:56:02PM -0700, Giovanna Imbesi (pho@tuttomedia.com) wrote:
Last night my friend and I stopped at a Venice club/bar. At the door they were doing the normal ID check, but then took my driver's license and swiped it into a little Palm-like device...and all the info popped up on the screen. I was startled, amused and outraged all at the same time. My friend knows the new owners of the building and told me that the owners had rented part of the upstairs space to a guy with a youth marketing company, also coincidentally a long-time friend of his. What are they doing with this information? I've been wondering what real implications a national ID card would present and here was a clear example of potential abuse. Is this even legal? Aren't they authorized to check date-of-birth but no more? Is it legal to retain the data? What data is stored in the magnetic stripe on a California driver's license - name, address, DOB, license #, and signature?
On the way out I asked if we got our data back but only got a nervous laugh in reply.
G.
Giovanna Imbesi TuttoMedia http://www.tuttomedia.com 310-399-2800 gio@tuttomedia.com
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