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NYC -- Privacy and Common Sense (#1077)
Posted: 4/5/2003; 11:51 AM by Terry Frazier
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Dan Gillmor reports on an unnerving episode at a Manhattan hotel, and since I'm headed there tomorrow it caught my attention. It's hard to balance legitimate security needs and personal freedom and I'm not sure there is a perfect answer. But I am quite sure we've swung way over the line, with a power-mongering police state chomping at the bit to demonstrate just how grand their "protection" efforts are.

Driver's license? Oops. Sorry. I forgot it.
Social Security card? Sorry, never carry it.
How about my AAA card? Will that do?

privacy in hotel.
Dan Gilmor: "Have you stayed in New York lately and been forced to hand over your ID for "safe-keeping" or photocopying? Or anywhere else?" [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

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