FC: Oracle's Larry Ellison urges national ID card for Americans

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Matt Drudge writes:
http://www.drudgereport.com/id.htm
> A proposal for the creation of a national ID card was presented to 
> President Bush in recent days, top government sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/ellsn092301.htm
> ``We need a national ID card with our photograph and thumbprint digitized 
> and embedded in the ID card,'' Ellison said in an interview Friday night 
> on the evening news of KPIX-TV in San Francisco.
> ``We need a database behind that, so when you're walking into an airport 
> and you say that you are Larry Ellison, you take that card and put it in a 
> reader and you put your thumb down and that system confirms that this is 
> Larry Ellison,'' he said. [...]
> ``We're quite willing to provide the software for this absolutely free,'' 
> he said.

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Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 18:49:33 -0700
To: declan () well com (Declan McCullagh)
From: David Theroux <DTheroux () independent org>
Subject: Ellison and ID cards

Dear Declan,

According to Drudge, Larry Ellison is now offering to donate the technology 
to create a national ID card.  What else would we expect from a firm that 
was created by the CIA:

http://beta.kpix.com/news/scripts/fri5pm.htm#77tz:_Ellison

Best regards,

David

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Says one person posting on cypherpunks:
> As the D.C. types would say, "that has no traction."
>
> Interesting that the cyberliberties crowd was so eager to launch a
> "Boycott Adobe" campaign because of their sin that they attempted to
> defend their property rights, but no one is launching a "Boycott Oracle"
> campaign over Larry Ellison's fascist support for mandatory
> citiizen-unit ID cards.
>
> As an Oracle investor for many years, I am ashamed that the President
> and CEO of a company I have long-owned is adopting the fascist and
> statist policies reminiscent of Nazi Germany.
>
> Ellison wishes Oracle to play the role of Krupp. "Ve vill volunteer our
> software, ja, in ze struggle."
>
> I would say he needs <censored>, and soon, but that might get me in
> trouble with the Securitat.




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