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October 03, 2002
Driver's licenses and government mind control rays
Scary setup from the email: This is really scary.......... Now you can see anyone's Drivers License on the Internet, including your own! I just searched for mine and there it was, picture and all.
I don't think this is a good idea at all!!!! I think we should write our congressperson!!
Al's grouchy rant in response: Yeah, I've seen this little joke before. Apparently, the fact that the link does not actually cough up driver's license info is supposed to be re-assuring somehow. However, it doesn't really strike me as all that farfetched. Consider for a moment in passing how many people have access to motor vehicle information. OK, I can't absolutely anonymously and freely access driver's license information on the net.
That doesn't re-assure me very much, however. Best I can tell, pretty much any half-assed town cop or BMV worker in the country can get to just such information, and probably more at will. You might as well publish it all on the net for all the privacy or confidentiality you actually have.
I don't believe in drivers being licensed, and I don't believe in license plates. Note how readily just a little more technology to talk between the different state systems is turning driver's licenses into a de facto national ID card. [In a properly sinister German accent] Are your papers in order, sir?
Of course, this is just my own crazy, baseless paranoia. In the words of Sgt. Schultz, I SEE NOTHING. NO-THING!!
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go fashion a tinfoil hat to keep out the government mind control rays.
Skeptically Yours,
Al Barger
posted by Al at 10/03/2002 02:45:00 AM
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