I would advise everyone to Google the Real ID issue.
We do not want to each end up in more efficient central data bases as technology gets better and better.
The moment one hear’s someone say “Why not. If you are innocent you have nothing to worry about” you know you are revisiting 1930s Germany where the same attitude prevailed.
Avoiding terrorist nukes must not involve so much control and information over ourselves. I would just prefer to steer clear of living and working downtown Washington or NY but otherwise live free.
Googling it brings up lost of CATO Institutes’ and ACLU’s phony “privacy” concerns. Why phony? Because the government already has all the information on U.S. citizens. What the ‘Real ID Act’ does is requires states to issue driver’s licenses and identifications using verifiable breeder documents or those licenses and IDs cannot be used to board a plane, enter a federal building, etc. They do not have to fully comply. They can also issue ones without the correct breeder documents do not those have to state they cannot be used for federal purposes.
People can choose between the two but entering a federal building and flying is not a Constitutional right. You and everyone doing those things have expectations of security and you either properly ID yourself or you should not get to do those things.
“You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.”
Scott McNealy
CEO Sun Microsystems
Jan 1999