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FC: Oracle's Larry Ellison lobbies hard for National ID card
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 13:47:25 -0700
Also see: http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/nation/docs/idcard17.htm ID card idea attracts high-level support And: http://www0.mercurycenter.com/business/top/033152.htm A modest proposal for national IDs http://opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=95001336 Smart Cards, by Larry Ellison -Declan ********* http://www.nationalreview.com/daily/nr101901.shtml
October 19, 2001 By John J. Miller and Ramesh Ponnuru BAD ORACLE ID cards pick up steam. Word that Oracle chairman and CEO Larry Ellison met with Attorney General John Ashcroft on Tuesday raises the prospect that the Bush administration is contemplating the adoption of a national ID card. "We are in the process of putting a proposal together and analyzing what it would take to get something running in a matter of a small number of months, like three months, 90 days," Ellison told the San Jose Mercury News. Three weeks ago, Ellison said his company, a leader in databases, would donate the software to the federal government. In late September, a low-level White House spokesman denied ID cards were on the table. Yet the idea appears to be gaining momentum: Recent endorsers include Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.), retired General Norman Schwartzkopf, Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz, and Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy. Ashcroft himself refused to comment this week on the Ellison's proposal or their meeting.
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