Posted on 06/07/2013 4:44:05 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Biometric Database tucked inside Gang of Eight immigration bill
by Conservative Action Alerts on May 31, 2013
ALERT: The Gang of Eight’s comprehensive immigration plan will destroy individual privacy via biometric database.
American Conservative,
Last Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed their markup of the Gang of Eight’s “immigration reform” bill – a version that not only preserves most of the bill’s original problems, but also contains 233 additional pages of rules.
Senator Ted Cruz says that the bill only makes our current immigration problems “worse.” Sadly, he holds the minority opinion as he was one of only five Senate Judiciary Members who opposed S. 744′s exit from committee.
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Page 1,318 of the markup bill details the establishment of a “photo tool” – a giant federal database managed by the Department of Homeland Security, supplied with individuals’ biometric information from all of the fifty states.
If established, the database would house a file for every person carrying a driver’s license or equivalent state-issued photo I.D., and contain their name, age, Social Security number, along with their photograph.
This database would also determine whether or not one is permitted to find employment. In other words, without becoming an entry in a federal database, Americans will be unable to secure a job or freely work where and as they choose!
“The Secretary shall develop and maintain a photo tool that enables employers to match the photo on a covered identity document provided to the employer to a photo maintained by a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services database.” (S. 744, page 1,319.)
(Excerpt) Read more at conservativeactionalerts.com ...
More data collection.
I’ve been warning about the extreme dangers to liberty posed by E-Verify for years. Few would listen. Until now.
Many healthcare corporations approve of this national biometric identification in the name of medical fraud prevention.
Iris scanning and other biometrics block out schemes
By A. Mizan Rahman
May 16, 2013
Fortunately, new tools such as biometric patient and provider identification have surfaced. They support a preventative approach that offers a more proactive strategy for stopping healthcare fraud before claims are paid.
Traditionally linked to sci-fi movies and government anti-terrorism efforts, biometrics has become more refined and less expensive. A host of industries around the globe thus are increasingly using biometrics as a practical identification tool.
Biometrics is a versatile tool for preventing fraud at the point of service, but also protecting patient safety and lowering legal liability. Using biometrics to identify patients can greatly enhance hospital initiatives to increase patient safety levels, eliminate identity fraud at the point of care, reduce risk and establish patient-care audit trails.
About the author: A. Mizan Rahman is Founder and CEO of M2SYS Technology, a global biometrics research and development company.
http://www.insurancefraud.org/article.htm?RecID=3268#.UbHDEdiwVfY
Correct (the mark)
...and I have done the same in reference to lists of any kind that government can get it’s hands on. That would be any list any where concocted for someones benefit, be it personal medical history, mental health records, drivers license records, gun purchase records, Social Security records, census records, phone records, military records, police records, felony records, you name it, likely it will never be for your benefit. Fifty years ago in a different world, I would not be saying this, but the law of human nature and the law of unitended consequences, have combined with the dubious “homeland security” and other police agencies to become the enemy rather than the protector.
Just remember before 1960, if you were even alive back then. guns were nationally advertised, I could get an M-1 for 25 dollars, by mail, and cherry bombs, and M-80’s were freely available to the trusted American citizen including children, but no we haven’t lost any of our freedoms have we. Unless you consider the federal intrusion into every aspect of life a loss of freedom.
Updated: April 18, 2013
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed this week that another six states—Alabama, Florida, Kansas, Nebraska, Utah and Vermont—are in compliance with the REAL ID, bringing the total to 19 states (see below for list of 13 states).
NCSL Transportation Committee
Questions about the REAL ID
On Dec. 20, the Department of Homeland Security issued a press release announcing that beginning on Jan. 15, 2013, those states that are not in compliance with the REAL ID standards will receive a temporary deferment of enforcement, of at least six months, during which federal agencies will continue to accept state-issued drivers licenses and identification cards from those states for boarding commercial aircraft and other official purposes. Following this minimum period of six months of non-enforcement, DHS will announce, no later than Fall 2013, a schedule for phased-in enforcement. While DHS did not offer a specific date as to when phased-in enforcement would begin, they did note that the announcement of phased-in enforcement will not result in immediate enforcement.
As part of this announcement, DHS sent individual letters to each state’s governor’s office. DHS organized states into three groups based on their standing with regards to REAL ID compliance. The first group, consisting of 13 states (Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Indiana, Maryland, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming) was found to have met the standards of the REAL ID Act of 2005 for driver’s licenses and identification cards. The second group consisted of those states that are not yet compliant with the standards but have contacted DHS regarding the status of their implementation efforts. The third group consists of states from which DHS has not received any information regarding that state’s REAL ID implementation efforts.
http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/transport/count-down-to-real-id.aspx
Every day....I am more absolved voting for libertarian Alex Snitker over Marco La Raza Rubio in the Florida Senate election.
Who you vote for is what you end up supporting
Scalia Lashes Out At Majority For Allowing Arrestee DNA Swabs
Few jurists are better in dissent than Antonin Scalia. And his dissent in today’s decision allowing police to take DNA swabs of arrested suspects features the conservative Supreme Court justice at his sardonic best.
There’s only one list on American citizens the federal government should have: the constitutionally-mandated enumeration collected every ten years in order to establish congressional districts and electoral votes.
And that’s nothing more than an head count.
Some of us did...
Again, letting the federal government decide who you can or cannot hire = bad, bad, bad decision.
Yeah. Over the years, I had some pretty intense arguments over this, even with hardcore border security types.
The Guardian reports: “The document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk – regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing.” The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) handed over the order to the FBI on April 25, and gave them a three month blanket surveillance clearance. That means that numbers of both parties, location data, call duration, and time of all calls are subject to government surveillance. That makes the Obama administration’s oversight essentially unlimited.
They’ve already got your kids dna if your kid was born in the past 10 or 15 years:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/04/baby.dna.government/index.html
In 10 more years they’ll have DNA for everyone under 25 born in this country. Roughly 1/3 of the population at that time.
Plus everyone ‘arrested’ for any reason and anyone who’s ever been in the military or reserves.
You’re assuming they’re keystone cops. What *I* want to know is what, exactly that $800M was spent on.
What black box project did it fund instead?
Now FBI wants back door to all software
Posted on June 6, 2013
Of course we can trust them with this, just ask the IRS.
Check it out:
The FBI is unhappy that there are communications technologies that it cannot intercept and wants to require that software makers and communications companies create a back door so they can listen in when they desire.
But a team of technology experts warns the move would hand over to the nation’s enemies abilities they are not capable of developing for themselves.
The Washington Post reported the issue is being raised by the FBI because “there is currently no way to wiretap some of these communications methods easily, and companies effectively.”
The solution, according to the FBI, is to fine companies when they fail to comply with wiretap orders, essentially requiring all companies to build a back door for wiretap capabilities into all their communications links.
“The importance to us is pretty clear,” FBI general counsel Andrew Weissman said in the report. “We don’t have the ability to go to court and say, ‘We need a court order to effectuate the intercept.’”
Read more: http://conservativebyte.com/2013/06/now-fbi-wants-back-door-to-all-software/#ixzz2VX8UpM1U
The key really is to enforce the border not have employers trying to keep people from getting hired.
It’s far easier to guard one point of entry rather then getting every single employer on board.
Even the states aren’t really an acceptable alternative. This is a constitutional requirement of the federal government. Refusing to enforce federal law is an impeachable offense.
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