For me this is Not about identity theft so much as Big Brother Is Watching....
Shades of an Interment Camp!
From California Consumer Newsletter: Summer 2007
"The federal REAL ID Act would force states to standardize drivers' license cards across the nation into a single national ID card and database. It does this by stipulating that state DLs and ID cards will not be accepted for "federal purposes"---including boarding an aircraft or entering a federal facility--unless they meet all of the law's numerous conditions.
States and the federal government would share access to this national database--one that could include images of birth certificates, marriage licenses, divorce papers, court ordered separations, medical records, and detailed information on the name, date of birth, race, religion, ethnicity, gender, address, telephone, e-mail address, and Social Security number (ALL New Passports issued since 2006 have this embedded in an RFID tag) for more than 240 million people. REAL ID will make it possible to look up DLs and other personal information on a Californian (or anyone else) at any DMV office in any state in the nation.
The REAL ID Act was slipped through Congress in May 2005 in an urgent "must pass" Iraq War/Tsunami relief supplemental bill...(this is known as a rider). In the us senate, not even a single hearing was held to consider the sweeping implications of REAL ID.
On may 1st the department of Homeland Security he;d a national town hall meeting in Davis-the ONLY public forum scheduled in the nation-to discuss the implementation of the Act.
Richard Holober, Executive Director of the Consumer Federation of California (CFC), testified in opposition, calling the national database a "one-stop shop" for identity thefts. "You're compromising the documents of 240 million Americans in the system is broken into," Holober said. "This information is all that a criminal needs to steal someone's identity. Instead of remaining under an individual's control, they'll be housed in the DMV at risk of being taken by hackers, burglars, or the way much ID theft occurs, through inside jobs. Because they're stored as digital images, anyone with a color printer will be able to produce high quality forgeries of these documents."
The privacy implications and the onerous requirements of the REAL ID Act have led a half dozen states to consider legislation that would refuse cooperation with the law's rules. this year Maine became the 1st state to pass such legislation. US Senators Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI) and John Sununu (R-NH) have introduced legislation to repeal the federal REAL ID Act. If California and other states join the rebellion, this federal privacy legislation will have a good chance of passage."
Well...if this doesn't make you pissed enough to take action...I don't know what will! Because..FYI, this IS NOT Freedom nor Democracy! But It IS a Wake-up Call!
Mi Takuye Oyacin
Shades of an Interment Camp!
From California Consumer Newsletter: Summer 2007
"The federal REAL ID Act would force states to standardize drivers' license cards across the nation into a single national ID card and database. It does this by stipulating that state DLs and ID cards will not be accepted for "federal purposes"---including boarding an aircraft or entering a federal facility--unless they meet all of the law's numerous conditions.
States and the federal government would share access to this national database--one that could include images of birth certificates, marriage licenses, divorce papers, court ordered separations, medical records, and detailed information on the name, date of birth, race, religion, ethnicity, gender, address, telephone, e-mail address, and Social Security number (ALL New Passports issued since 2006 have this embedded in an RFID tag) for more than 240 million people. REAL ID will make it possible to look up DLs and other personal information on a Californian (or anyone else) at any DMV office in any state in the nation.
The REAL ID Act was slipped through Congress in May 2005 in an urgent "must pass" Iraq War/Tsunami relief supplemental bill...(this is known as a rider). In the us senate, not even a single hearing was held to consider the sweeping implications of REAL ID.
On may 1st the department of Homeland Security he;d a national town hall meeting in Davis-the ONLY public forum scheduled in the nation-to discuss the implementation of the Act.
Richard Holober, Executive Director of the Consumer Federation of California (CFC), testified in opposition, calling the national database a "one-stop shop" for identity thefts. "You're compromising the documents of 240 million Americans in the system is broken into," Holober said. "This information is all that a criminal needs to steal someone's identity. Instead of remaining under an individual's control, they'll be housed in the DMV at risk of being taken by hackers, burglars, or the way much ID theft occurs, through inside jobs. Because they're stored as digital images, anyone with a color printer will be able to produce high quality forgeries of these documents."
The privacy implications and the onerous requirements of the REAL ID Act have led a half dozen states to consider legislation that would refuse cooperation with the law's rules. this year Maine became the 1st state to pass such legislation. US Senators Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI) and John Sununu (R-NH) have introduced legislation to repeal the federal REAL ID Act. If California and other states join the rebellion, this federal privacy legislation will have a good chance of passage."
Well...if this doesn't make you pissed enough to take action...I don't know what will! Because..FYI, this IS NOT Freedom nor Democracy! But It IS a Wake-up Call!
Mi Takuye Oyacin
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