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1 total messages Started by francois.grieu Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:20
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Author: francois.grieu
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:20
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require fingerprints for licenses.


>   California is already fingerprinting drivers, and many places outside of
>   the US are creating identity cards with barcoded information.
>    
>   Also, AmSouth and Compass Banks will soon introduce fingerprinting of
>   people who cash checks and have no account with their bank.  This is
>   now standard practice in Texas and will soon be nation-wide.


*   "Fingerprints Used to Cut Welfare Fraud", by Sandra Blakeslee
*   The New York Times, April 6 1992
*   
*   Los Angelos is the first county in the nation to install an automatic
*   fingerprint-identification system for ferreting out welfare cheats.
*   
*   "We can deliver services faster too," said Eddy Tanaka, director of the
*   Los Angelos County Department of Public Social Services.
*   
*   "We will not share the fingerprints with the police or any other government
*   agency."
*   
*   Intrigued by Los Angelos County's program, the New York Legislature
*   authorized an identical fingerprint program.


#   "Proposal Links Fingerprint Plan and Albany's Medicaid Help"
#   By James C. McKinley Jr, The New York Times, 1994?
#   
#   Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and the majority leader of the State Senate
#   have agreed to a plan linking Medicaid with a plan to fingerprint welfare
#   recipients.
#   
#   Later in
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