[Dataloss] The Smart Card Alliance Thinks Privacy Is Bunk

[Richard Forno]

The Smart Card Alliance Thinks Privacy Is Bunk

A spokesman for the Smart Card Alliance says:

    Privacy concerns are all perception and hype and no substance but carry
considerable weight with state legislators because no one wants to be
accused of being soft on privacy.

That¹s Randy Vanderhoof, the Smart Card Alliance¹s executive director,
quoted in a Federal Computer Week article on the collapsing REAL ID
Act/national ID plan.  He was speaking of Congressman Tom Allen¹s (D-ME)
bill to restore the 9/11 Commission-inspired ID provisions of the
Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004.

Mr. Vanderhoof and the Smart Card Alliance couldn¹t appear more dismissive,
ignorant, and unserious about issues that are a core problem preventing
uptake of its products.

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