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To: U Up U Down who wrote (18343)	10/17/2001 12:00:29 PM
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ID card idea attracts high-level support osted at 10:53 p.m. PDT Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2001 ID card idea attracts high-level support Top executives, lawmakers back national identification card proposal BY ELISE ACKERMAN AND PAUL ROGERS Mercury News Silicon Valley software mogul Larry Ellison's proposal to create a national ID card has gained substantial ground -- and the interest of top Bush administration officials -- in a signal that the controversial idea may be closer to reality than ever. In an interview with the Mercury News on Tuesday night, Ellison, the chairman and CEO of Oracle, said he met with U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and officials at the CIA and FBI in Washington, D.C., over the past week to discuss the idea. U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has endorsed it, other tech executives have jumped on board and even some prominent civil libertarians have said the idea is worth pursuing. ``We are in the process of putting a proposal together and analyzing what it would take to get to get something running in a matter of a small number of months, like three months, 90 days,'' Ellison said. ``We think we could put up this technology very, very quickly.'' The idea of a national ID card has been debated since the 1930s. But Ellison's proposal in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has reignited the dispute over privacy and security. Under Ellison's plan, the government would create a national identification card. The card would contain basic information about the holder, including Social Security number, and would be linked to a federal database containing detailed personal data, including digital records of the person's thumbprint, palm print, face or eyes. www0.mercurycenter.com