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Private Contractor Which Owns and Runs "Real ID" Pushed by Trump Also Built China's Police Surveillance System; Real ID Act Allows Same Abuses
As Sen. Rand Paul works a bill which would repeal the Real ID Act of 2005, the US media is working overtime to keep people from understanding what Real ID really is and what it does. It is worse than many can imagine.
What is never reported:
— Real ID is actually a product made and run by a private third-party French contractor, IDEMIA, formerly Morpho, which built the Chinese government’s authoritarian facial recognition-based surveillance and control system. The company’s website said in 2015 that it:
“Morpho [IDEMA} has…provided facial recognition systems to police agencies in Shanghai, Tianjin, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Jiangxi, Guangzhou and Wenzhou.”
Amnesty International reported in 2020:
“Morpho, which is now part of Idemia, a French multinational, was awarded a contract to supply facial recognition equipment directly to the Shanghai Public Security Bureau in 2015. The company specializes in security and identity systems, including facial recognition systems and other biometric identification products.”
Under the system the Chinese government can efficiently target, punish,or imprison anyone investigating or speaking out against any government corruption or wrongdoing. In the US this would include, for example, crimes committed with Jeffrey Epstein.
— In China facial recognition surveillance is ubiquitous and complete. No person not of the highest party rank can walk or drive anywhere without being identified by cameras at up to 200 feet, and tracked, monitored, or intercepted by authorities in minutes. (See video below)
— Real ID is not really an ID. It is a part of a sophisticated 24/7 surveillance network that keeps a record of where you have been, and soon what you have purchased and when, and is an open-ended database linking to everything about you, whether it be medical, financial, or Internet use. It requires that the ID eventually include a high-resolution facial recognition scan of the kind in use in China, which can pick out individuals from hundreds of feet away.
— IDEMIA in turn stores all your data in the servers of Amazon Web Services, another private company. Because IDEMIA is a transnational company with similar contracts in many other countries, the Real ID could eventually be merged into a single global system and ID.
— IDEMIA has been accused by human rights organizations of helping the Egyptian military government in its crackdown on dissent, through its mass surveillance and tracking technology.
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— Australia is now mandating that almost all Internet uses require a log-in with a digital ID similar to the US Real ID, purportedly to protect minors from inappropriate web content. However, the same technology will allow the government to record all Internet searches. The US Real ID Act of 2005 authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to make the same requirements, in it’s “any other purposes” clause (see below.)
— The Trump administration takes full credit for reviving Real ID, which has lain fallow since the passage of the Real ID Act in 2005 due to state and public opposition.
The Trump TSA writes:
“The REAL ID law was signed more than 20 years ago, but previous presidential administrations failed to properly implement it. Under President Trump’s leadership, the law was finally implemented and enforced by Secretary Kristi Noem as of May 7, 2025.”
— State drivers licenses or IDs that are forgery proof, based on birth certificates, are sufficient for voter ID. You use the same technology as paper currency, with UV light able to read the stamp beneath the ink. Real ID will ping the government every time you use it and updates a master AI database in real time, on where you are, what you are doing, and what you are buying. The government can shut off your Real ID at any time.
— Although the DHS at present says that Real ID will be required, according to a TSA January 14, 2025 rules document, for (1) accessing Federal facilities, (2) boarding federally regulated commercial aircraft, (3) entering nuclear power plants, buried in this clause are also the words “and any other purposes that the Secretary of Homeland Security shall determine.” Thus the language of the Real ID Act of 2005 is broad and vague, and unconstitutionally grants the Executive Branch powers far beyond those enumerated in the US Constitution.
Below: 2025 DHS announcement, DHS shall determine for what “purposes” Real ID is needed. Source
–The US Constitution is a limiting document, created to strictly limit what the federal government can do, and reserving all other powers “to the States respectively, or to the people,” as the Tenth Amendment states. Nowhere in the US Constitution is the government given the authority require the presentation of identification of any sort for daily civilian activities. Law enforcement must have “probable cause” of a crime having been committed or in progress to demand identification from citizens. Wherever possible, a search warrant must be obtained.
— Alarmingly, the Real ID Act in Section 205 of the Real ID Act, states that the Act:
“Gives the [DHS] Secretary all authority to issue regulations, set standards, and issue grants under this title.”
Below source
A “standard” is not limited and could be anything, including whether or not a high resolution facial recognition scan has been obtained from the Real ID holder, or vaccination status. It is another completely open-ended blank check for the government to demand anything it desires, abolishing the concept of privacy which has been determined to be written into the Fourth Amendment, in order for a Real ID to remain valid for any “purposes that the Secretary of Homeland Security shall determine.”
— The TSA announcement, dated December 1, 2025, says that the TSA rule will help keep “terrorists, criminals, and illegal aliens out of the skies,” even though all the 9/11 hijackers boarded with legitimate passports, just as any foreign national can use today, without paying the $45. Ironically, foreign nationals with passports can board US domestic flights without paying the $45. Resisters and civil libertarians argue that Real ID is not really an ID at all, but part of a sophisticated 24/7 surveillance network.
— Former Bush Jr. administration official and Real ID critic, Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Catherine Austin Fitts, remains convinced that the Real ID will be used to enforce vaccine mandates, by making it impossible to function in society without a valid Real ID. This could require government-mandated injections as a standard for validity, in essence a de-facto vaccine passport.
Some among the financial elites make no secret of their desire for a China-like global system which “monitors” and “tracks” people. Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, wrote in his book in 2019, The Fourth Industrial Revolution:
“Any package, pallet or container can now be equipped with a sensor, transmitter or radio frequency identification (RFID) tag that allows a company to track where it is as it moves through the supply chain—how it is performing, how it is being used, and so on….In the near future, similar monitoring systems will also be applied to the movement and tracking of people.”
Real ID is anticipated by many to eventually take the form of an under-the-skin biochip for everyone, already a reality in countries such as Sweden.
Refuse Real ID is one of the main groups opposing Real ID, which some call “the Mark of the Beast,” with the campaign “Stop Real ID”
In the UK, mass protests have broken out as the Starmer government attempts to impose theUK version of Real ID, the BritCard (see video below.)
December 13, 2025, mass protests in UK against China-style digital ID.
LARGE IMAGE OF BELOW
Chinese journalist who was investigating government corruption is persecuted by digital ID social credit score system
Ron Paul against Real ID
China total surveillance and control system allows strict enforcement of April 2022 Shanghai “zero COVID caes” total lockdown, driving residents to screaming from windows
MORE.....
"Real ID" Surveillance System is Owned and Run by Private Third Party French Contractor IDEMIA, Which Runs Control Grid in China
Private Contractor Which Owns Trump's "Real ID" Also Built China's Police Surveillance System. Mark of the Beast?
ralplopez.substack.com
Private Contractor Which Owns and Runs "Real ID" Pushed by Trump Also Built China's Police Surveillance System; Real ID Act Allows Same Abuses
As Sen. Rand Paul works a bill which would repeal the Real ID Act of 2005, the US media is working overtime to keep people from understanding what Real ID really is and what it does. It is worse than many can imagine.
What is never reported:
— Real ID is actually a product made and run by a private third-party French contractor, IDEMIA, formerly Morpho, which built the Chinese government’s authoritarian facial recognition-based surveillance and control system. The company’s website said in 2015 that it:
“Morpho [IDEMA} has…provided facial recognition systems to police agencies in Shanghai, Tianjin, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Jiangxi, Guangzhou and Wenzhou.”
Amnesty International reported in 2020:
“Morpho, which is now part of Idemia, a French multinational, was awarded a contract to supply facial recognition equipment directly to the Shanghai Public Security Bureau in 2015. The company specializes in security and identity systems, including facial recognition systems and other biometric identification products.”
Under the system the Chinese government can efficiently target, punish,or imprison anyone investigating or speaking out against any government corruption or wrongdoing. In the US this would include, for example, crimes committed with Jeffrey Epstein.
— In China facial recognition surveillance is ubiquitous and complete. No person not of the highest party rank can walk or drive anywhere without being identified by cameras at up to 200 feet, and tracked, monitored, or intercepted by authorities in minutes. (See video below)
— Real ID is not really an ID. It is a part of a sophisticated 24/7 surveillance network that keeps a record of where you have been, and soon what you have purchased and when, and is an open-ended database linking to everything about you, whether it be medical, financial, or Internet use. It requires that the ID eventually include a high-resolution facial recognition scan of the kind in use in China, which can pick out individuals from hundreds of feet away.
— IDEMIA in turn stores all your data in the servers of Amazon Web Services, another private company. Because IDEMIA is a transnational company with similar contracts in many other countries, the Real ID could eventually be merged into a single global system and ID.
— IDEMIA has been accused by human rights organizations of helping the Egyptian military government in its crackdown on dissent, through its mass surveillance and tracking technology.
Thanks for reading Hermes! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
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— Australia is now mandating that almost all Internet uses require a log-in with a digital ID similar to the US Real ID, purportedly to protect minors from inappropriate web content. However, the same technology will allow the government to record all Internet searches. The US Real ID Act of 2005 authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to make the same requirements, in it’s “any other purposes” clause (see below.)
— The Trump administration takes full credit for reviving Real ID, which has lain fallow since the passage of the Real ID Act in 2005 due to state and public opposition.
The Trump TSA writes:
“The REAL ID law was signed more than 20 years ago, but previous presidential administrations failed to properly implement it. Under President Trump’s leadership, the law was finally implemented and enforced by Secretary Kristi Noem as of May 7, 2025.”
— State drivers licenses or IDs that are forgery proof, based on birth certificates, are sufficient for voter ID. You use the same technology as paper currency, with UV light able to read the stamp beneath the ink. Real ID will ping the government every time you use it and updates a master AI database in real time, on where you are, what you are doing, and what you are buying. The government can shut off your Real ID at any time.
— Although the DHS at present says that Real ID will be required, according to a TSA January 14, 2025 rules document, for (1) accessing Federal facilities, (2) boarding federally regulated commercial aircraft, (3) entering nuclear power plants, buried in this clause are also the words “and any other purposes that the Secretary of Homeland Security shall determine.” Thus the language of the Real ID Act of 2005 is broad and vague, and unconstitutionally grants the Executive Branch powers far beyond those enumerated in the US Constitution.
Below: 2025 DHS announcement, DHS shall determine for what “purposes” Real ID is needed. Source
–The US Constitution is a limiting document, created to strictly limit what the federal government can do, and reserving all other powers “to the States respectively, or to the people,” as the Tenth Amendment states. Nowhere in the US Constitution is the government given the authority require the presentation of identification of any sort for daily civilian activities. Law enforcement must have “probable cause” of a crime having been committed or in progress to demand identification from citizens. Wherever possible, a search warrant must be obtained.
— Alarmingly, the Real ID Act in Section 205 of the Real ID Act, states that the Act:
“Gives the [DHS] Secretary all authority to issue regulations, set standards, and issue grants under this title.”
Below source
A “standard” is not limited and could be anything, including whether or not a high resolution facial recognition scan has been obtained from the Real ID holder, or vaccination status. It is another completely open-ended blank check for the government to demand anything it desires, abolishing the concept of privacy which has been determined to be written into the Fourth Amendment, in order for a Real ID to remain valid for any “purposes that the Secretary of Homeland Security shall determine.”
— The TSA announcement, dated December 1, 2025, says that the TSA rule will help keep “terrorists, criminals, and illegal aliens out of the skies,” even though all the 9/11 hijackers boarded with legitimate passports, just as any foreign national can use today, without paying the $45. Ironically, foreign nationals with passports can board US domestic flights without paying the $45. Resisters and civil libertarians argue that Real ID is not really an ID at all, but part of a sophisticated 24/7 surveillance network.
— Former Bush Jr. administration official and Real ID critic, Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Catherine Austin Fitts, remains convinced that the Real ID will be used to enforce vaccine mandates, by making it impossible to function in society without a valid Real ID. This could require government-mandated injections as a standard for validity, in essence a de-facto vaccine passport.
Some among the financial elites make no secret of their desire for a China-like global system which “monitors” and “tracks” people. Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, wrote in his book in 2019, The Fourth Industrial Revolution:
“Any package, pallet or container can now be equipped with a sensor, transmitter or radio frequency identification (RFID) tag that allows a company to track where it is as it moves through the supply chain—how it is performing, how it is being used, and so on….In the near future, similar monitoring systems will also be applied to the movement and tracking of people.”
Real ID is anticipated by many to eventually take the form of an under-the-skin biochip for everyone, already a reality in countries such as Sweden.
Refuse Real ID is one of the main groups opposing Real ID, which some call “the Mark of the Beast,” with the campaign “Stop Real ID”
In the UK, mass protests have broken out as the Starmer government attempts to impose theUK version of Real ID, the BritCard (see video below.)
December 13, 2025, mass protests in UK against China-style digital ID.
LARGE IMAGE OF BELOW
Chinese journalist who was investigating government corruption is persecuted by digital ID social credit score system
Ron Paul against Real ID
China total surveillance and control system allows strict enforcement of April 2022 Shanghai “zero COVID caes” total lockdown, driving residents to screaming from windows
MORE.....
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