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Article: Privacy rights' days may be (federally) numbered.(legislation to stop Social Security number from being used to track people)(Brief Article)
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- Insight on the News
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- August 17, 1998
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One cannot read a newspaper these days without the Clinton administration or Congress proposing some new way to track Americans from the cradle to the grave. In the ideal world of the big-government proponent, we would not be allowed to go to the store, board a plane or see a doctor without our federally approved papers.
Whether it is a national driver's-license requirement buried in immigration legislation or the standard, unique health-care identifier required under a health-care reform bill, our precious right to privacy is under attack.
While my Freedom and Privacy Restoration Act (HR4217) stops the national driver's license from taking effect, ...