“So if they're not going to mail it to a post office box, then these people will not receive a license or identification card and it could impede their ability to vote,” said Sarah Preston, legislative coordinator for the ACLU.
So people in small towns, who had a PO Box address all their lives (like me)would not be able to renew their license?
This is where I find 911 addressing insidious. Is it the government's job to know where everyone is? Or just the criminals? We survived more than 200 years without the government knowing where every citizen lived and how to contact them.
Just as a matter of principle I prefer not to give my physical address, I prefer that the whackos that you run into out there (grocery checkers, bank clerk) not know exactly where my house is, and where I and my beautiful lives. I've been "pursued" (they call it stalking now) by some weirdos, and I just don't want to be providing my physical address to people. Isn't that my right as a law-abiding citizen of the USA?
The great authoritarian governments of the ages (USSR under Hitler, Germany under Stalin, Cuba under Castro) kept meticulous records on their citizens.
While I certainly oppose giving licenses to illegals, I'm also uncomfortable with the amount of information on me and my life that the government demands access to. I don't commit crimes, and shouldn't have anything to be afraid of with all this. On the other hand, there have been a couple of publicized cases here in PA where Law Enforcement Officers used their position (and power) against women they had some interest in. The controls aren't tight enough to keep the head cases away from information, whether they are police, 911 dispatcher, or state employee. Don't I have a right to privacy to prevent unwanted stalking?
That is really funny, you can bet money the cops know where you are, and you can no longer rent a post office box without proper ID. In short there is no privacy in the united states, unless you are and illegal.
The same is true for opening a securities account, no physical address for you AND your employer means you can’t open an account.
I had someone who works for a large federal government agency, trying to open an account that only had a PO Box for her actual place of employment. To the best knowledge of her and her boses, the Post Office hadn’t assigned an address for the location, even though the facility had been there more than 100 years.
In order to keep the feds happy, and to open her account, we just made up something that sounded plausible.
I find the PO box thing kind of annoying too. I have to have a PO box because there is no mail delivery where I live.