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Date Posted: 11:28:54 02/18/03 Tue
Author: SurveyGuy
Author Host/IP: maxtnt05-727.phlpa.fast.net / 209.92.101.219
Subject: A good idea or a scary one?

http://news.com.com/2010-1071-984792.html
Perspective: Closer to a national ID plan?
By Declan McCullagh February 17, 2003, 4:00 AM PT

WASHINGTON--A little-known company called EagleCheck is hoping to provide a standardized identity check technique that governments and corporations will use to verify that you are who you claim to be.

EagleCheck, a privately held firm in Cleveland proposes that whenever someone uses a driver's license or a passport for identity verification, the ID's authenticity will be checked through EagleCheck's network that is tied to state motor vehicle and federal databases. The databases will respond by saying whether the ID is valid.

I ran into David Akers, EagleCheck's president, last week in a Senate office building where he was hawking his system to a crowd of politicians understandably nervous about Threat Level Orange, Osama bin Laden, and possible terrorist attacks sparked by a loominginvasion of Iraq. Stacked on a table were brochures warning in stark crimson letters that "EagleCheck could have flagged" 14 of the 19 terrorists who hijacked planes on Sept. 11, 2001, because some had used expired visas and stolen passports.

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[> Am I crazy, or don't these documents have expiration dates and/or photos on them? Maybe if the people checking the documents could speak, read, and write our language this lunacy would not be necessary. Add in a huge dose of prolfiling and we would at least be better off than we are now and before. Let's try that old standard of FULLY using the data we already have. Non-citizens can and should be held to different standards. -- JL, 13:42:46 02/22/03 Sat (pcp01376707pcs.selrsv01.pa.comcast.net/68.80.69.241)

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[> [> You've broken the code! Why hire people who can recognize and expired document when a multi-million dollar system, fsar more complex than that, can be introduced? Consider how welll emmissions inspections are cleaning the air in PA. Bureaucratic Motto: Always appear to be doing something, whether it will work or not. -- SurveyGuy, 13:03:13 02/24/03 Mon (maxtnt04-42.phlpa.fast.net/209.92.96.42)

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