Dean and Clark --- Both anti-privacy?

[MMT]

Clark worked (or works?) for an intrusive-database company. Well, 2 years ago, a month after Dennis Kucinich gave his stemwinder pro-privacy, pro-peace, pro-freedom "Prayer" speech to the ADA, Dean gave a speech in which he advocated an extremely serious invasion of our privacy while claiming it wouldn't be:

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Fifteen months before Dean said he would seek the presidency, however, the former Vermont governor spoke at a conference in Pittsburgh co-sponsored by smart-card firm Wave Systems where he called for state drivers' licenses to be transformed into a kind of standardized national ID card for Americans. Embedding smart cards into uniform IDs was necessary to thwart "cyberterrorism" and identity theft, Dean claimed. "We must move to smarter license cards that carry secure digital information that can be universally read at vital checkpoints," Dean said in March 2002, according to a copy of his prepared remarks. "Issuing such a card would have little effect on the privacy of Americans."

Dean also suggested that computer makers such as Apple Computer, Dell, Gateway and Sony should be required to include an ID card reader in PCs--and Americans would have to insert their uniform IDs into the reader before they could log on. "One state's smart-card driver's license must be identifiable by another state's card reader," Dean said. "It must also be easily commercialized by the private sector and included in all PCs over time--making the Internet safer and more secure." ((I added the emphasis))

The presidential hopeful offered few details about his radical proposal. "On the Internet, this card will confirm all the information required to gain access to a state (government) network--while also barring anyone who isn't legal age from entering an adult chat room, making the Internet safer for our children, or prevent adults from entering a children's chat room and preying on our kids...Many new computer systems are being created with card reader technology. Older computers can add this feature for very little money," Dean said.

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Unfortunately, Dean's presidential campaign won't answer any of those questions. I've tried six times since Jan. 16 to get a response, and all the press office will say is they've "forwarded it on to our policy folks." And the policy shop isn't talking.

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http://news.com.com/2010-1028-5146863.html

[Democrats unite]

1. Who is Dennis Kucinich?

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[Meritaten1]

2. Karl Rove and John Ashcroft-- that's anti-privacy!

Smear Democratic candidates enough this year and we all just might get to discover how really anti-privacy the Bush administration is.

Personally, I hope we never find out what a second term of George W. Bush could do to destroy privacy rights. It's just too scary to think about.

[Jack_Dawson]

3. ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Didn't think anyone could put me to sleep today. It just happened.

:boring:

[AntiCoup2K4]

4. Somebody posted a variation of this article on another board I moderate...

....did some digging and found that the CNET/ZDNET board of directors has ties to all sort of Wall street types and one direct link to Rupert Murdoch and the Heritage Foundation.

Now who do you suppose they'll be voting for? :eyes:

[MMT]

5. Are you implying that Dean didn't give any such speech?

Is Declan McCullagh lying do you think? I don't know much about him. I got the pointer to this article from Sam Smith's site (Progressive Review). Sam is a Dean supporter, I'm pretty sure.