Identification and Privacy are not Antinomies (fwd)

[Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>]

Forwarded message:

> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 20:26:24 +0100
> From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
> Subject: Identification and Privacy are not Antinomies

> Am I a UK citizen, a good credit risk, a club member in good
> standing, etc.  An appropriate mechanism, a smartcard, can easily 
> authenticate both itself (challenge-response) and the bearer via a biometric 
> and/or PIN without revealing the identity of the holder.
> 
> However, who holds out hope that such a sensible
> thing would ever be adopted by the powers-that-be.

What the powers-that-be hold is realy irrelevant. The issue is what do we do
to make sure that the powers-that-are-to-be don't have that option?


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