China Implements ID Card: Vision of American Future?

August 13, 2007

sir wanton

China Implements ID Card: Vision of American Future.

Sun Aug 12, 2007 17:31

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Get your copy of the REAL ID Awareness Fliers Today!!! Free!!!http://www.mediamax.com/sancho23/Hosted/RealID_simple.pdf-------- Original Message --------China Implements ID Card: Vision of American Future.Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:14:45 -0700 (PDT)sir wanton ezbreez22Would be little surprise if our friend Nicolas Rockefeller, along with L-1 Identity Solutions, is helping get this program in place. Mr. Rockefeller does quite a bit of business over in China, and his particular area of interest is population surveillance. L-1 Identity Solutions is the company that will be working the biometric identification technology for the REAL ID. The REAL ID Act of 2005 will usher us into a social structure with this type of surveillance at it's core. All to fightcrime and terror, of course.============SHENZHEN, China, Aug. 9 — At least 20,000 police surveillance camerasare being installed along streets here in southern China and willsoon be guided by sophisticated computer software from an American-financed company to recognize automatically the faces of policesuspects and detect unusual activity.Starting this month in a port neighborhood and then spreading acrossShenzhen, a city of 12.4 million people, residency cards fitted withpowerful computer chips programmed by the same company will be issuedto most citizens.Data on the chip will include not just the citizen's name and addressbut also work history, educational background, religion, ethnicity,police record, medical insurance status and landlord's phone number.Even personal reproductive history will be included, for enforcementof China's controversial "one child" policy. Plans are being studiedto add credit histories, subway travel payments and small purchasescharged to the card.Security experts describe China's plans as the world's largest effortto meld cutting-edge computer technology with police work to trackthe activities of a population and fight crime. But they say thetechnology can be used to violate civil rights.The Chinese government has ordered all large cities to applytechnology to police work and to issue high-tech residency cards to150 million people who have moved to a city but not yet acquiredpermanent residency.Both steps are officially aimed at fighting crime and developingbetter controls on an increasingly mobile population, including thenearly 10 million peasants who move to big cities each year. But theycould also help the Communist Party retain power by maintaining tightcontrols on an increasingly prosperous population at a time whenstreet protests are becoming more common.-NYTimes========Get your copy of the REAL ID Awareness Fliers Today!!! Free!!!http://www.mediamax.com/sancho23/Hosted/RealID_simple.pdf====================================================AS AMERICA SLEEPS....!!!!