Florida Gov. Jeb Bush canceled his state's contract with Image Data on Monday. Before Bush's move, a Florida judge blocked the sale of that state's pictures. A hearing is set for Thursday. Houvener said he demonstrated his system to Condon's executive assistant, Cameron Crawford, in July. Crawford said Houvener never told him how he would get access to the driver's licenses photos.
Some people see the pictures' sale, even for fraud prevention, as dangerous.
N.J. Catlett helped organize a boycott of Intel Corp. because an ID number in its new Pentium III computer chips could help identify people as they move across the Internet. Houvener said 6,000 South Carolina drivers have decided not to participate in the TrueID program so far, a number he considers small after almost two weeks of negative publicity. All Rights Reserved.