[governance] germany plans citizen email

[Jaco Aizenman]

I can comment on what *already* happened in Costa Rica, where a similar
program was launched in 2000(*):

Most people use not just the Government, www.costarricense.cr , but also
Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo or/and the work email.

Tracking is a problem, but the problem applies not just for the public
sector providers but also for the private sector providers, which have even
much more pointers (email, searches, social sites, etc).

That´s why it is perceived locally as a necessity and as a human right
having an Internet Bill of Rights (Law #15890, presented in 2004).

(*) It was not just email, but:
-Free access all over the country,  including remote areas that satellite
access was used.
-Free website.
-The concept of universalizing virtual personality, including bank accounts
(Good for people in extreme poverty)) and others, which a a few years later
ended in the Congress with the virtual personality fundamental right,

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:

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> Comments below
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> > -----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
> >
> >
> > 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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