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our best interests...
* "Suffolk Medical Examiner Urges Fingerprinting Law"
* By John T. McQuiston, The New York Times, 8/20/1996
*
* Putting motorists' fingerprints on NY driver's licenses, as is done in
* California, would help identify disaster victims, the Suffolk Medical
* Examiner told a committee of the County Legislature about his work on
* the crash of TWA Flight 800.
*
* "The victims from California were the fastest and easiest to identify,"
* the Medical Examiner, Dr. Charles V. Wetli, said, "because the fingerprint
* of their right thumb was on their driver's license."
*
* "It was a nightmare for the other families to wait for identification."
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Just how much does the government want to
track us, by issuing tracking devices?
Metrocard is a re-writeable magnetic card. It's new to us New Yorkers.
They are individually serial-numbered.
* "Metrocards to Replace School Transit Passes"
* By John Sullivan, The New York Times, 8/26/1996
*
* About 500,000 students will now have their bus and subway usage tracked by
* Metrocards, in an effort to save money. Unlike current passes, which
* students can use anytime between 6 A.M. and 7 P.M. on weekdays, the
* Metrocard pass can be programmed to restrict the students to a set number
* of trips a day.
*
* Ms. Gonzalez-Light, a spokeswoman for the Board of Education, said they
* would work with the Transit Authority to individualize the number of
* trips per student to adjust for extra-curricular activities.
Then you could track each individual student? Decide if they might be tru
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