Privacy Journal


"One of the greatest threats to privacy in the next five years."

A National ID Card:
A License to Live

No one has been more vigorous in the debate on a national ID card than the author of this book, Robert Ellis Smith. Long before the reaction to the terrorist attacks of 2001, he saw the dangers of requiring an identity document of each American citizen. In this special report, he marshals all the arguments for and against a mandatory national ID card.

46 pages, $18.50 plus $4 postage fee, from Privacy Journal.

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A - Legal Reference
B - History
Ben Franklin's Web Site: Privacy and Curiosity From Plymouth Rock to the Internet

the tug between privacy and surveillance in U.S. history
C - Advocacy
D - Current issues
War Stories

Anecdotes of Persons Victimized by Invasions of Privacy
D - Current Issues
D - Current issues
Our Vanishing Privacy

Essays on privacy issues
E - Directory
Directory of Privacy Professionals

500 names, address, phone numbers, and web sites of the top experts and organizations in the field of personal privacy. $18.50
F - Legal Reference
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Privacy: How to Protect What's Left of It

1980 National Book Award nominee
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