'Digital birth ID' stirs privacy debate By Dara Kam Special to The Palm Beach Post Saturday, August 13, 2005 TALLAHASSEE — Imagine a virtual "thumbprint" that attaches your time and place of birth to your photo and iris scans — one of millions collected, warehoused and monitored by the watchful eye of Big Brother. The technology is no longer just the stuff of science fiction. It's pretty much old news to tech-savvy security experts. Boring, even. No government has tried it out on a large scale, but Florida might become the first. A defense contractor has proposed that the state...