NYCLU criticizes city’s new municipal ID program

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Sally Goldenberg

Hours before Mayor Bill de Blasio and advocates hailed a bill to offer identification cards to all New Yorkers, regardless of their immigration status, the New York Civil Liberties Union blasted the measure.

"Unfortunately, the bill that is before the mayor today also provides for the city to copy and store people's most sensitive documentation, like pay stubs, Social Security numbers and even their children's educational records," the NYCLU said in a statement Wednesday afternoon.

"In this bill, the city has not done enough to protect those documents from being used by law enforcement. The NYPD, F.B.I., D.H.S. and others can request these documents without having to show probable cause," the statement said. "And if they are requested, the city has no obligation to even notify the person so they might be able to defend their own privacy."

Later Wednesday, the mayor joined several City Council members for a celebratory hearing on the bill, in which advocates lined up in the City Council chambers at City Hall to trumpet the legislation as a major achievement for immigrants.

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2014/07/8548665/nyclu-criticizes-citys-new-municipal-id-program

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1. our personal information is being used by every sort of agency

Not new here. Privacy is a joke in this country. People actually think their personal information is actually personal?

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2. Agreed there is no privacy. I think these cards need to go foward.

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3. I agree. But what about those without a birth certificate? Some may want to keep their

identities secret.

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4. I assume they either would not bother or would use other info. time will tell.

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5. It's needed but I can see it being exploited.

There will be some who with shady past who might use this to hide with a secret identity.Hopefully they will do fingerprints.

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6. I think I might get one.

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7. Do all New Yorkers have to get it?

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8. No. I am going to get it so not everyone who has it is thought of as undocumented immigrants.

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10. Questions Still Remain as Municipal I.D. Cards Come to New York

http://observer.com/2014/07/questions-still-remain-as-municipal-i-d-cards-come-to-new-york/