Tuesday, February 1, 2011

REDUX: national ID news from Egypt, Africa, Japan and the EU

FROM EGYPT
"In a sign of their new-found confidence, many protesters held up their national ID cards or passports to news cameras, a show of bravery just days after police were detaining and raiding the homes of activists.
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ASIA
On Japan's national ID number system proposal  --The government was to announce, possibly on Friday, a set of basic principles for the proposed introduction of a national identification number system as a means of tracking individual citizens' social security, income and asset information for welfare and taxation purposes.

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