🚀 go-pugleaf

in our Foreign
Service, but made the mistake of writing to foreign embassies in grade school.

Poor schmuck.

The FBI wants to keep "suspect" information on anyone in its NCIC 2000 system.

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Some people feel the smart card will quickly give away to implantable
biometric transponders. Once everyone is fingerprinted, you may as well!

Guess what?

They exist, and aren't that big:

*   http://www.radioamerica.com/relevance/11-94.html
*   
*   Martin Anderson, former senior member of Ronald Reagan's Economic Policy
*   Advisory Board fears that the advancing technology may soon end with,
*   "all of us tagged like so many fish." Writing in the October 11th, 1993
*   Washington Times he confirmed the drift toward human applications of the
*   chip:
*   
*            You see there is an identification system made by
*            the Hughes Aircraft Company that you can't lose.
*
*            It's the syringe implantable transponder.
*
*            According to promotional literature it is an
*            "ingenious, safe, inexpensive, foolproof and
*            permanent method of identification using radio
*            waves. A tiny microchip, the size of a grain of
*            rice, is simply placed under the skin. It is so
*            designed as to be injected simultaneously with a
*            vaccination or alone."
*
*
*   When government technocrats want Americans to accept the unacceptable,
*   they move slowly. In the case of reaching the ultimate goal of a universal
*   system of personal identification, this introduction is likely to begin
*   with the smartcard, and progress to non-implantable, bio-chips attached to
*   the clothing or worn in bracelets.
*   
*   In Europe, this system has already been used at track and field events
*   where the competitors wear the device attached to their jersey. This
*   provides their coordinates during each event and can be used for the
*   timing of races.
*   
*   Wid