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* USA - National ID to Be Privatized
Activist Says He Has Docs
USA -rinf.com, by Ryan Singel & Kevin Poulsen -Jan 23, 2007: -- A program to standardize state driver’s licenses to create a de facto national I.D. should use a third-party — most likely a private contractor — to verify that a person is eligible for a driver’s license or state identification card, according to a document provided to 27B by a privacy activist. The document appears to be a portion of the rules that Homeland Security is proposing for the program, which are currently being evaluated by the Office of Management and Budget before they are presented to the public for comment... REAL-ID compliant licenses will also have some machine-readable component — perhaps a bar-code or an RFID — but Homeland Security — which was handed the decision authority on this matter hasn’t yet ruled on what that will be. This year will likely see widespread challenges to the law from both Congress (one bill repealing the rules was introduced by Democratic Senator Daniel Akaka in December as a warning shot) and from states, who see the rule as an unfunded mandate. States to watch include New Hampshire, Maine, Arizona and Georgia...
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