re clinton wants national id card aka ussr style internal passport in article apr csd newshost stanford edu andy sail stanford edu andy freeman writes in article apr cc usu edu slp k cc usu edu writes btw which parts should be secure criminal records ie convictions are typically considered public information so should that info be secure remember the population includes parents checking prospective childcare worker parent s checking a babysitter shouldn t need access to the information stored in the card sure they do the prospective sitter may have a nasty habit of molesting kids three or four months into the job the references may not have known him long enough or may not have picked up on this yet remember criminal conviction info is public so if you re going to argue for an id card other people are going to have a strong argument that it disclose public info as perhaps some insight into how this sort of thing works the local college newspaper had a big crusade to have the u t police release crime stats the school claimed that to do so would violate federal education records privacy laws they swore up and down they weren t interested in student discipline records only for stats so people could make an evaluation of how safe the campus was it was barely a week after crime stats were released before the daily beacon had an editorial calling for student disciplinary stats to be released because they complained certain segments of the campus population were treated administratively rather than turned over to the police and therefore the criminal states weren t accurate what people say they want public today may not be what they say tomorrow david veal univ of tenn div of cont education info services group pa utkvm utk edu i still remember the way you laughed the day your pushed me down the elevator shaft i m beginning to think you don t love me anymore weird al
