[ISN] Feinstein Again (national id/privacy)

From: mea culpa <jericho_at_dimensional.com>
Date: Tue 12 May 1998 - 02:53:31 CDT
Forwarded From: "Spencer, Will" <wspencer@DMWGroup.com>

> In September 1996, President Clinton signed the Illegal Immigration 
> Reform and Responsibility Act of 1996.

> Buried at approximately page 650 was a section that creates a 
> framework for establishing a national ID card for the American public. 

> This legislation was slipped through without fanfare or publicity. The
> 
> author of the national ID law, Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), stated in a 
> Capitol Hill magazine that it was her intention to see Congress 
> immediately implement a national ID system whereby every American
> would 
> be required to carry a card with a "magnetic strip on it on which the 
> bearer's unique voice, retina pattern, or fingerprint is digitally 
> encoded."
> 
> Source: "National ID Card Is Now Federal Law and Georgia Wants to Help
> 
> Lead the Way", by Cyndee Parker, Witwigo, May/June 1997
> 

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