> Unicard That's an interesting choice of name; it's also the name of an essay[1] by John Walker[2] (who also wrote about "The Digital Imprimatur"[3]). He warn

> Unicard That's an interesting choice of name; it's also the name of an essay[1] by John Walker[2] (who also wrote about "The Digital Imprimatur"[3]). He warned about this type of privacy problem in 1994: > Unicard - Ubiquitous Computation, Global Connectivity, and the End of Privacy > ABSTRACT: Threats to privacy are often seen as efforts launched by governments or large corporations, using their power to circumscribe individuals' rights. Yet often individuals voluntarily surrender their privacy for promises of security or, more frequently, pure convenience. Based on technologies already available or certain to appear within the next few years, this paper explores how much convenience could be gained, and how much privacy lost as these technologies enter the mainstream. [1] https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/unicard.html https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/unicard.html [2] Co-founder & chairman of Autodesk, one of the designers/programmers of AutoCAD [3] https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/ https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/