FC: Anguilla as Net-tax haven and Secret Service ID database

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/21610.html

                     Anguilla Creates Indelible Inc.
                     by Declan McCullagh 

                     12:00 p.m.  7.Sep.99.PDT
                     BRISBANE, Australia -- Alan Jones is an
                     unlikely advocate of tax havens. 

                     The veteran British bureaucrat seems
                     visibly uncomfortable talking up the
                     benefits of hiding money where tax
                     collectors can't find it. 

                     "I never thought I'd see the day as a civil
                     servant where I'd be talking about this,"
                     he says. 

                     But when Jones moved to Anguilla three
                     years ago and became the registrar of
                     corporations in this tiny British
                     protectorate with no personal or
                     corporate income taxes, he overcame his
                     doubts and got laissez-faire religion. 

                     [...]

and some older stuff...

http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21607.html

                     Smile for the US Secret Service
                     by Declan McCullagh 

                     3:00 a.m.  7.Sep.99.PDT
                     WASHINGTON -- A New Hampshire
                     company began planning in 1997 to
                     create a national identity database for
                     the federal government, newly disclosed
                     documents show. 

                     Image Data's US$1.5 million contract with
                     the US Secret Service to begin digitizing
                     existing driver's license and other
                     personal data was widely reported early
                     this year. But documents unearthed by
                     the Electronic Privacy Information Center
                     reveal the details and scope of the
                     project. 

                     [...]


http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21559.html

                     Hillary for President?
                     by Declan McCullagh 

                     12:00 p.m.  2.Sep.99.PDT
                     WASHINGTON -- Is the reason Hillary
                     Rodham Clinton hasn't officially
                     announced her candidacy for US Senator
                     from New York because she's really
                     eyeing the presidential race? 

                     Or is this another one of those wacky
                     Web things? 

                     [...]


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