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Re: Driver Licenses
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In <[email protected]>, on 02/08/98
at 07:45 PM, Anonymous <[email protected]> said:
>Recently had to renew my DL here in Florida. While we are not forced to
>give up our fingerprints (yet)we have a new little magnetic strip similar
>to those on a credit card or ATM card and I can see this as a way for the
>State to start holding more and more data about us on these I.D.'s (like
>fingerprints, criminal records, etc... Coincidentally, that day when I
>went into my grocery store to get a six pack of brew, I got carded. I
>handed my new little card over and the teller and rather than looking at
>my date of birth she started to swipe the damn thing through her credit
>card reader machine! I stopped her, grabbed my DL back and told her to
>manually enter the date as they have always done. When she explained
>that it is against store policy and that she 'had' to swipe any IDs that
>had the strip I got my keys outta my pocket and all but removed the strip
>from the back of my little nemesis. Handed it back to her and told her to
>swipe away; it is against MY policy to provid!
> e !
>!
>the store with my address. I don't want any damn pepsi coupons mailed to
>me each time I buy coke, or northern tissue coupons when I buy charmin.
>Nor do I want the store collecting information on how much beer I buy.
>Sure, I want my alchohol purchases going to the Dept of Motor Vehicles
>and the other State departments...like hell.
>My question is, how much information can be stored on these strips?
My question is what is the best way to remove this information from the
cards?
A few passes over a strong magnet sufficient or should a chemical solvent
be used?
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