[wordup] Oracle's Larry Ellison lobbies hard for National ID card

[Adam Shand]

The best bit is this: "We are in the process of putting a proposal
together and analyzing what it would take to get something running in a
matter of a small number of months, like three months, 90 days,".

Jesus ... 30-90 days for a national ID scheme?  I'm glad they're taking
the time to research this properly and make sure it gets implemented well.

At least we know why Oracle wants it ... "Oracle databases are so powerful
that we even run the ... blah blah blah".

Adam.

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Subject: FC: Oracle's Larry Ellison lobbies hard for National ID card

Also see:
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/nation/docs/idcard17.htm
ID card idea attracts high-level support

And:
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/business/top/033152.htm
A modest proposal for national IDs

http://opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=95001336
Smart Cards, by Larry Ellison

-Declan

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http://www.nationalreview.com/daily/nr101901.shtml

October 19, 2001
By John J. Miller and Ramesh Ponnuru

BAD ORACLE
ID cards pick up steam.

Word that Oracle chairman and CEO Larry Ellison met with Attorney General
John Ashcroft on Tuesday raises the prospect that the Bush administration
is contemplating the adoption of a national ID card. "We are in the
process of putting a proposal together and analyzing what it would take to
get something running in a matter of a small number of months, like three
months, 90 days," Ellison told the San Jose Mercury News. Three weeks ago,
Ellison said his company, a leader in databases, would donate the software
to the federal government.

In late September, a low-level White House spokesman denied ID cards were
on the table. Yet the idea appears to be gaining momentum: Recent
endorsers include Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.), retired General
Norman Schwartzkopf, Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz, and Sun
Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy. Ashcroft himself refused to comment this
week on the Ellison's proposal or their meeting.

[...]





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