[governance] germany plans citizen email

[Ian Peter]

Comments below

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Avri Doria [mailto:avri at psg.com]
> Sent: 12 October 2008 10:02
> To: Governance List
> Subject: Re: [governance] germany plans citizen email
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> On 11 Oct 2008, at 01:38, Ian Peter wrote:

Not be, I was quoting Johannes Ernst
> 
> > First you create a universal digital identifier for each citizen
> > that they have no control over (e.g. they can't have more than one
> > for different purposes, change it to something else, run it on a
> > different computer, decide not to show their name in it etc.)
> >
> 
> 
> but would they be required to use t for anything other then government
> business?  sure if they use it for other stuff then tracking becomes
> possible, but if it is just your gov't id used when doing citizen stuff?
> 
> a.
> 
I don't know, I guess that's the sort of detail that's really needed to
evaluate this properly. But national ID schemes with attached data matching
capabilities are a privacy issue, and the US social security number is a
case in point.




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