[IP] Re: "The ID Divide"

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Dan Lynch [dan@lynch.com]
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 11:44 AM
To: David Farber; Mary Shaw
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:    "The ID Divide"

I am on the board of a large health clinic for people of all categories and
what we realize is that the only ID that will work is one the patient brings
in with every visit: their biometric identity, the iris in their eyes.  A
tiny fraction of individuals will not have that due to unfortunate
circumstances and those can be handled "offline".

Dan


On 6/9/08 4:35 AM, "David Farber" <dave@farber.net> wrote:

>
> ________________________________________
> From: Mary Shaw [mary.shaw@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 12:40 AM
> To: David Farber
> Subject: Re: [IP] Re: "The ID Divide"
>
> Dave,
>
> This discussion is ignoring an important population, people who are neither
> illegal nor privacy advocates.
>
> One of my colleagues formerly worked with a medical clinic serving indigent
> clients.  He has told me that one of their problems was tracking clients --
> that is, matching a client in the clinic today with his or her history at that
> or other clinics.
>
> You might expect that an ID card would solve, or at least help with, this
> problem.  But he reports that the clients didn't retain and bring back ID
> cards. If I understand correctly, many clients didn't see the ID card as an
> item of any significance; if it had any value they'd have no hesitation to
> trade it away.
>
> So a discussion of universal ID needs to consider how to persuade people that
> ID matters and how they can maintain physical security of the ID token..
>
> That problem is even more intractable than the technology problems, and I
> think it's another reason why universal ID won't succeed.
>
> Mary Shaw
>
>
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