Your papers please! Challenging ID Demands
Reason
by Ronald Bailey
10/19/06
While relatively few Americans actually have passports, it turns out the new federal law that attempts to impose standardized electronic driver's licenses -- Real I.D. -- is modeled on the biometric passport program. Every driver's license would contain an electronic chip containing the licensee's face and fingerprints Real I.D. would tie every driver's license into a national database to which all sorts of local, state, and federal officials will have immediate electronic access. Real I.D. has real bite because without the new federally mandated electronic I.D.s Americans could be denied access to government buildings and to public transportation including buses, trains, and airplanes. Tim Sparapani argued that the deployment of Real I.D. would make America a checkpoint society in which we must prove our identities in order to be authorized to do almost anything...
http://www.reason.com/rb/rb101906.shtml
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Groups ask high court to review aviation ID policies
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=35494
http://papersplease.org/wp/category/secret-law/
by Ronald Bailey
10/19/06
While relatively few Americans actually have passports, it turns out the new federal law that attempts to impose standardized electronic driver's licenses -- Real I.D. -- is modeled on the biometric passport program. Every driver's license would contain an electronic chip containing the licensee's face and fingerprints Real I.D. would tie every driver's license into a national database to which all sorts of local, state, and federal officials will have immediate electronic access. Real I.D. has real bite because without the new federally mandated electronic I.D.s Americans could be denied access to government buildings and to public transportation including buses, trains, and airplanes. Tim Sparapani argued that the deployment of Real I.D. would make America a checkpoint society in which we must prove our identities in order to be authorized to do almost anything...
http://www.reason.com/rb/rb101906.shtml
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Groups ask high court to review aviation ID policies
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=35494
http://papersplease.org/wp/category/secret-law/
rudkla - 20. Okt, 19:03
