Posted on 03/01/2009 3:12:39 PM PST by Lucky9teen
Privacy advocates are issuing warnings about a new radio chip plan that ultimately could provide electronic identification for every adult in the U.S. and allow agents to compile attendance lists at anti-government rallies simply by walking through the assembly.
The proposal, which has earned the support of Janet Napolitano, the newly chosen chief of the Department of Homeland Security, would embed radio chips in driver's licenses, or "enhanced driver's licenses."
"Enhanced driver's licenses give confidence that the person holding the card is the person who is supposed to be holding the card, and it's less elaborate than REAL ID," Napolitano said in a Washington Times report.
REAL ID is a plan for a federal identification system standardized across the nation that so alarmed governors many states have adopted formal plans to oppose it. However, a privacy advocate today told WND that the EDLs are many times worse.
Radio talk show host and identity chip expert Katherine Albrecht said REAL ID earned the opposition of Christians because of its resemblance to the biblical "mark of the beast," civil libertarians opposed it for its "big brother" connotations and others worried about identity theft issues with the proposed databases.
"We got rid of the REAL ID program, but [this one] is way more insidious," she said.
Enhanced driver's licenses have built-in radio chips providing an identifying number or information that can be accessed by a remote reading unit while the license is inside a wallet or purse.
The technology already had been implemented in Washington state, where it is promoted as an alternative to a passport for traveling to Canada. So far, the program is optional.
But there are other agreements already approved with Michigan, Vermont, New York and Arizona, and plans are under way in other states, including Texas, she said.
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Don't get an enhanced license. The Washington enhanced license is offered as an alternative to using a passport for crossing into Canada via car or boat. It is intended for people that make frequent trips and want an appropriate ID to put in their wallet.
If you don't want/need an enhanced license for border crossing, don't get one. The regular Washington license is a run of the mill variety license.
Raybbr are you doing a Vulcan mind scan on me? I had the tinfoil idea at the same time.
Think I’ll carry one of those cattle eartag radios in my wallet along with tinfoil DL. “Uh, we have Mr. Moo in the third row waving the Join or Die flag”.
How does this interact with the 4A?
It has already been established that IR scans to detect pot growing operations are illegal.
Now there is the fine point of law that you already know about the RFID chip in the license or passport and it could turn out that a passport is legal and a license not, but those RFID scanners can work a distances greater than 33 feet.
I just plain don’t like the idea of being identified at a distance by the government.
bttt
Interesting question. I wouldn't be surprised if the government argument would be based on the license being property of the government.
Reasonable expectation of privacy and free movement would be the counter to that argument.
Anvil. Hammer. Solved.
Much better. LOL
History has been unfair to Franco. He has been pigeon-holed as a fascist by the tenured Marxists who dominate “higher education.”
Franco stopped a Communist revolution. Lamentably, given the unique circumstances of the 1930s, he also had no choice but to make an accommodation with Hitler. This was a pragmatic decision to protect a modicum of independence for Spain.
In the end, Franco stamped out Communism. Was he, at times, brutal? Undoubtedly. But sometimes you have to be brutal when stamping out an inhuman internal enemy—precisely what we’re facing in this country.
Give me a ticket for “No License In Possession”!
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