Snoopy

Das Leben der Anderen

The Lives of Others

“ Radio chip coming soon to your driver's license? Privacy advocates are issuing warnings about a new radio chip plan that ultimately could provide electronic identification for every adult in the U.S. and allow agents to compile attendance lists at anti-government rallies simply by walking through the assembly. The proposal, which has earned the support of Janet Napolitano, the newly chosen chief of the Department of Homeland Security, would embed radio chips in driver's licenses, or "enhanced driver's licenses." "Enhanced driver's licenses give confidence that the person holding the card is the person who is supposed to be holding the card, and it's less elaborate than REAL ID," Napolitano said in a Washington Times report. REAL ID is a plan for a federal identification system standardized across the nation that so alarmed governors many states have adopted formal plans to oppose it. However, a privacy advocate today told WND that the EDLs are many times worse. ” With very few exceptions (Japanese comedy), I've never been disappointed in a foreign language film, captioned, but never dubbed.  I suppose that's  because those coming to my attention are award winners  The Lives of Others  is a recent example (last weekend).  Given the times, I thought it appropriate we bone up on what it's like when a Government, as the GDR did, has a record of who owns a typewriter in the country,  its model and serial number.  That's so dissident literature can be identified through font and striking characteristics.  I recommend the movie as strongly as I do fighting any such privacy invasion in the US of A.