[governance] germany plans citizen email

[Jaco Aizenman]

On 10/11/08, Jaco Aizenman <skorpio at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>
>>
>> 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
>> >
>> >
>> > 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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