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Move to National ID Cards Delayed
JustGetThere —
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By David Kravets Wired | The United States’ quest for a national identification database associated with driver’s licenses won’t be finished by year’s end. The deadline was Dec. 31 for the states to create what would be the largest identification database of its kind under the auspices of the Real ID ...10 hours ago -
Move to National ID Cards Delayed
Privacy Digest —
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Move to National ID Cards Delayed : Via Threat Level . The United States’ quest for a national identification database associated with driver’s licenses won’t be finished by year’s end. The deadline was Dec. 31 for the states to have created what would be the largest identification database of its kind ...20 hours ago -
Real ID Follies Continue with PASS ID Waiting in the Wings
Privacy Digest —
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Real ID Follies Continue with PASS ID Waiting in the Wings : Via EFF.org Updates . As 2009 draws to a close, were inching ever deeper into the corner that Congress painted us into by passing Real ID under the table in 2005. (Recall that Real ID is the failed, Bush-era attempt to turn state drivers licenses into ...1 day ago -
Microchip Implant to Link Your Health Records, Credit History, Social Security
Speak Truth 2 Power —
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By Jim EdwardsOct 5, 2009Source: BNetNovartis and Proteus Biomedical are not the only companies hoping to implant microchips into patients so that their pill-popping habits can be monitored. VeriChip of Delray Beach, Fl., has an even bolder idea: an implanted chip that links to an online database containing all your ...5 days ago -
University of Denver Panel Recommends You Have a National ID
Cato @ Liberty —
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By Jim Harper If you have a job, a panel convened by the University of Denver thinks you should have a national ID card. DU’s “ Report of the Strategic Issues Panel on Immigration ” says: The idea of a national card for identifying citizens and non-citizens has become the third rail of immigration politics. ...6 days ago -
Fake Fingerprints fool Japanese Security
PID News —
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(BBC) – A Chinese woman managed to enter Japan illegally by having plastic surgery to alter her fingerprints, thus fooling immigration controls, police claim.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8400222.stm6 days ago -
Homeland Security Embarks on Big Brother Programs to read our Minds
PID News —
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(Alternet) – In the sci-fi thriller Minority Report, Tom Cruise plays a D.C. police detective, circa 2054, in the department of “pre-crime,” an experimental law enforcement unit whose mission — to hunt down criminals before they strike — relies on the psychic visions of mutant “pre-cogs” (short for ...6 days ago -
Dead Man Gets Passport - The Top 10 Stories You Missed in 2009
Privacy Digest —
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Dead Man Gets Passport - The Top 10 Stories You Missed in 2009 : Via Foreign Policy. Since 2007, the U.S. State Department has been issuing high-tech "e-passports," which contain computer chips carrying biometric data to prevent forgery. Unfortunately, according to a March report from the Government Accountability ...6 days ago -
National ID Card Database Up and Running
Spy Review —
Authority: 115
Finally it is online and working – the national identity card data base went live on October 20th and already has 538 people on in by November 19th. It is first opening to the general public in Greater Manchester and people residing there can apply from November 30th. The next phase will be in the north-west of ...2 weeks ago -
Real ID program in deep trouble
PogoWasRight.org —
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Jaikumar Vijayan reports: A decision by lawmakers to slash funding for the unpopular Real ID national driver’s license program has put an already struggling initiative on life support. The U.S. Senate recently approved a $43 billion budget for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for the federal ...4 weeks ago -
‘Has Any of This Made Us Safer?’
Cato @ Liberty —
Authority: 745
In the November 6th Washington Post , Petula Dvorak lamented the effect of REAL ID compliance on women who have changed their names. The Department of Homeland Security is about to give out blanket waivers to states across the country who have not complied with REAL ID requirements — again. But some states have ...4 weeks ago

