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The following was written by Slashdot Reader James Moyer .
In proposing this idea, I think that it would a little bit of background would be appropriate. I am a student at Ohio State, and I have a strong interest in civil liberties and privacy issues. In fact, I am now in the process of organizing an on-campus student organization to criticize Ohio State's overuse of the social security number, biometric identification and other related issues to privacy directly concerning the university.
Here on Slashdot I use the nickname JimBobJoe posting from email address vampire@innocent.com.
I also consider myself a Libertarian, and from many of the postings on Slashdot, it appears that there are quite a lot of Libertarians out there too. There is no coincidence, in my mind, that some of the most stringent privacy laws in the nation hail from a highly technical, Libertarian state, being Washington state. In the same vein, it is rather amusing to see countries such as Malaysia attempt to draw computer professions into their country, where the severity of their laws turn many away.
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