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Originally Posted by Hardknock
Read the article again. It talka about using biometric data to track all of us. If you think that this is just an "improved" DL and the government have all out best intentions in mind, then I don't know what you've been smoking really.
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No it mentions that biometric data could be used for identify verification and SPECULATES that the govt will require it. Biometric data cannot be used to 'track' you. It's not as if we'd have some satellite system that everyone is plugged into. This is exactly why this belongs in paranoia.
I think you are the one who needs to RTFA without the alarmist bias. Here are a few quotes:
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The congressional maneuvering takes place as governments are growing more interested in implanting technology in ID cards to make them smarter and more secure. The U.S. State Department soon will begin issuing passports with radio frequency identification, or RFID, chips embedded in them, and Virginia may become the first state to glue RFID tags into all its driver's licenses.
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That is regarding passports and Virginia STATE issued IDs, not federal ids.
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Paul warned that the legislation, called the Real ID Act, gives unfettered authority to the Department of Homeland Security to design state ID cards and driver's licenses. Among the possibilities: biometric information such as retinal scans, fingerprints, DNA data and RFID tracking technology.
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Speculation. These are all things that are possible to do, nobody has officially said that any of these WILL be used.
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Some evangelical Christians have likened such a proposal to language in the Bible warning "that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." That mark is the sign of the "end times," according to evangelical thinking, which predicts that anyone who accepts the mark will be doomed to eternal torment.
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That isn't alarmist fearmongering?
It never states that any RFID or biometric data WILL be required or that there will be some sort of national ID card. Because neither is strictly forbidden, critics SPECULATE that one or all may happen but it IS speculation.
Now, again, assuming that both cards have exactly the same information; what is exactly WRONG with having a national id card instead of 50 different state issued ids?