OldFlame
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"No. REAL ID is a national set of standards, not a national identification card. REAL ID does not create a federal database of driver license information. Each jurisdiction continues to issue its own unique license, maintains its own records, and controls who gets access to those records and under what circumstances. The purpose of REAL ID is to make our identity documents more consistent and secure."
Yep.
Do you really believe that the FEDS won't eventually create one, once the infrastructure is all set up?
I guess you just trust the democrats more than I do.
I remember this, so does Pepperidge farm. . . .
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From driver's license to digital dossier? Why some are worried about REAL ID.
With the long-delayed REAL ID deadline now days away, critics warn the law could open the door to expanded government surveillance and data-sharing.www.usatoday.comWhat are the privacy concerns around REAL ID?
". . . Alexis Hancock, Director of Engineering at the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation, said the program “pushes for regimes that strip privacy from everyone and further marginalize undocumented people.”
“While Real ID-compliant identification will soon be required to enter TSA checkpoints, there is no reason this can’t and won’t expand to include additional ‘official purposes’ with federal entities in the future,” she told USA TODAY in an emailed statement.
Because identifying information is currently stored at the state level, Hancock added that the program’s unified standards could make it “even easier” to transfer sensitive information over state lines, such as when state DMVs have reportedly sold data to third parties.
The American Civil Liberties Union has similarly said the law would facilitate data tracking on individuals if fully implemented. “By definitively turning driver’s licenses into a form of national identity documents, Real ID would have a tremendously destructive impact on privacy,” the organization’s website reads.
Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst with the American Civil Liberties Union, told USA TODAY that “there have long been privacy concerns about having standardized identity systems.”
We're way past the point of no return regarding a government that could track and/or control your every move should they so desire. I don't see Real ID as any different than all of the other similar technologies that have already been implemented. If you want to avoid risk of your federal tax return being delayed, your 1040 already asks you for your state license information, issuer, number, expiration date, etc.. If you think the feds don't already have all of that info, then you're just fooling yourself. It just seems silly to worry about this particular venture when we're at where we're at.
