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[Real ID is a rider to the $82 billion military spending bill that was just passed by the House of Representatives.]* "Homeland Security hasn’t completely decided which machine readable technology they’ll use, but they’re leaning heavily towards RFID, since the chips are [what DHS wants to embed] in passports. The card will likely take the place of your driver’s license and will store at the very minimum your name, birthdate, sex, ID number, a digital photograph and address, with the possibility of additional data such as a fingerprint or retinal scan. State DMVs will be receiving federal funds to hand over their databases [and will surely be threatened with having funds cut off if they don't -- Ed.], with the goal of making each state’s data available to all other states. The House passed the measure on Thursday [386-58], and both the Senate and President Bush are expected to sign off on the bill [this] week..." From Engadget: "The Machine-Readable You." See also: "How Real ID will affect you." * "Why did these ID requirements get attached to an 'emergency' military spending bill?" Because it's difficult for politicians to vote against money that will go to the troops in Iraq and tsunami relief. The funds cover ammunition, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, aircraft, troop housing, death benefits, and so on... "Is this a national ID card?" It depends on whom you ask. Barry Steinhardt, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's technology and liberty program, says: "It's going to result in everyone, from the 7-Eleven store to the bank and airlines, demanding to see the ID card. They're going to scan it in. They're going to have all the data on it from the front of the card...It's going to be not just a national ID card but a national database." At the moment, state driver's licenses aren't easy for bars, banks, airlines and so on to swipe through card readers because they're not uniform; some may have barcodes but no magnetic stripes, for instance, and some may lack both. Steinhardt predicts the federalized IDs will be a gold mine for government agencies and marketers. Also, he notes that the Supreme Court ruled last year that police can demand to see ID from law-abiding U.S. citizens... "Who were the three Republicans who voted against [the Real ID Act]?" Reps. Howard Coble of North Carolina, John Duncan of Tennessee, and Ron Paul of Texas. Rep. Paul has warned that the Real ID Act establishes a national ID card and gives authority to the Secretary of Homeland Security to unilaterally add requirements as he sees fit. R U ready for Real ID? |
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