Wednesday, April 27, 2005

National ID cards may be on the way / Scripps Howard News Service, 26 Apr 2005

http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=IDCARDS-04-26-05&cat=AN
LANCE GAY
"The federal government is moving ahead with a blizzard of new identification card proposals affecting military personnel, government workers and even ordinary Americans renewing their driver's licenses.
Privacy advocates say the identification cards reflect Washington's embrace of fancy new 'smart-card' technologies allowing pictures or fingerprints to be read by computers. But critics argue the cards give a false sense of security because they can be either forged, faked, bought - or just ignored by terrorists with a determination to kill Americans."