Will the new national ID track your movements?
Foundation for Economic Education
by James Plummer
08/31/05
By the end of September virtually unaccountable bureaucrats inside the Department of Homeland Security will likely have decided whether the new de facto national ID card will broadcast your sensitive identification information wherever you go -- Minority Report style. This comes as a result of the REAL ID Act. REAL ID was signed into law in May. As a result of negotiations over the intelligence-reform bill passed last December, the law had been attached to the first 'must-pass' bill of 2005, which turned out to be 'emergency' spending for the Iraq war. Thus a vote against this national ID would have been spun as a vote 'against the troops' as well...
http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=7149
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by James Plummer
08/31/05
By the end of September virtually unaccountable bureaucrats inside the Department of Homeland Security will likely have decided whether the new de facto national ID card will broadcast your sensitive identification information wherever you go -- Minority Report style. This comes as a result of the REAL ID Act. REAL ID was signed into law in May. As a result of negotiations over the intelligence-reform bill passed last December, the law had been attached to the first 'must-pass' bill of 2005, which turned out to be 'emergency' spending for the Iraq war. Thus a vote against this national ID would have been spun as a vote 'against the troops' as well...
http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=7149
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 1. Sep, 18:19
