On the trail to become the Democrat nominee, Howard Dean, wants every citizen of the United States to carry a national ’smart’ ID card (ZDnet) which would contain digital fingerprint or retinal scan and be able to be used at various checkpoints around the country. Privacy advocates are understandably concerned with the prospect of these cards. I do think with all the hacking that it would be nice to have some sort of fingerprint or retinal scan identifier for computer users, but then that still opens up the privacy can of worms as well. It would be nice to know who is really sending that spam without having to dissect headers and hope they aren’t forged. These cards, assuming Howard Dean is made the Democratic nominee and assuming he beats Bush in the 2004 election, are probably more fiction than fact.

Did this post make you go hmm?

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