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POPSIndia to issue all 1.2 billion citizens with biometric ID cards
Keeping tabs around the world • Compulsory national identity cards are used in about 100 countries including Germany, France, Belgium, Greece, Luxembourg, Portugal and Spain • ID cards are not used in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the Irish Republic or Nordic countries • German police can detain people who are not carrying their ID card for up to 24 hours • The Bush Administration resisted calls for an identity card in the US after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 • In Australia street protests in the 1980s forced the Government to abandon its plans for a card • Plastic cards are favoured over paper documents because they are harder to forge • Most identity cards contain the name, sex, date of birth and a unique number for the holder • South Korean, Brazilian, Italian and Malaysian ID cards contain fingerprints. Cards in some countries contain information on any distinguishing marks of the holder • Objections t
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POPSCensus GPS-tagging your home's front door Obama administration announced its oversight of the census, "literally taking control of the census away from the Commerce Department." He put that together with Obama's longtime push for national service. I ask again, what would be the purpose of shooting the GPS coordinates of American doorways?" he wrote. The answer he provided was alarming. "Imagine, if you will, that there are a number of people in a neighborhood that could not find the addresses they are tasked with finding. They are not locals, maybe are unable to read a map, or perhaps do not have the time to pull out a map, and they need to find you with specific GPS coordinates. Their devices would lead them to your front door with these coordinates. Imagine a crisis is afoot, and martial law is put into place. U.S. troops need to round up particular folks," he wrote.
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