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  Lawmakers Eyeing National ID Card

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  Lawmakers are proposing a national identification card — what they're calling "high-tech, fraud-proof Social Security cards" — that would be required for all employees in the United States.
  The proposal by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York) and Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-South Carolina) comes as the states are grappling to produce another national identification card at the behest of the Department of Homeland Security. Virtually none of the states are in compliance with this Real ID program — adopted in 2005 — requiring state motor vehicle bureaus to obtain and internally scan and store personal information like Social Security cards and birth certificates for a national database.
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  Homeland Security officials pointed to the Sept. 11 hijackers' ability to get driver's licenses in Virginia using false information as justification for the proposed $24 billion Real ID program. Schumer and Graham point to illegal immigration as cause for their plan.
  "We would require all U.S. citizens and legal immigrants who want jobs to obtain a high-tech, fraud-proof Social Security card. Each card's unique biometric identifier would be stored only on the card; no government database would house everyone's information," they said. "The cards would not contain any private information, medical information or tracking devices. The card would be a high-tech version of the Social Security card that citizens already have."
  Jim Harper, director of information policy studies at the Cato Institute, suggests the plan would undoubtedly lead to a national database. He added that "there is no practical way of making a national identity document fraud-proof."
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  E-Passport a Privacy Concern

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  It was recently reportedthat Passport Canada has issued 25,000 biometric passports, and plans to issue them to all Canadians by 2011. The government is introducing e-passports to enhance security, fight fraud, reduce identity theft and meet international counter-terrorism measures already in use in travel documents in over 60 countries, including the United States, the European Union, Australia and Israel. The e-passport will now be valid for a period of 10 years (thank you!—that's an improvement at least).
  A biometric passporthas a data chip inside it that can be read electronically. The chip contains information about the holder's face—such as the distances between eyes, nose, mouth and ears—which authorities can use to identify the passport holder. These details are taken from the holder's passport photograph. The chip also holds the information that is printed on the personal details page of the passport. Biometric details are unique to each citizen, like a fingerprint, the iris of the eye and facial features.
  The US Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC) describes the privacy issues and risks associated with facial recognition technology (FR) in the following manner:
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  Biometric Society Security card a threat to privacy?

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  EVEN by the standards of La-La Land, the latest ploy by U.S. Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein of California is utterly hypocritical.
  They asked the Justice Department to investigate the new Arizona immigration law. Having cops question suspects about immigration status is "polarizing and hurtful," they said.
  This is as opposed, I guess, to chasing illegal immigrants with tanks, which is what Boxer wanted to do in the early 1990s when Californians were freaking out over immigration. Boxer inserted language into an appropriations bill requiring the Pentagon to station the National Guard on the border.
  Feinstein wanted all Americans to have to carry a national ID card that would double as a work permit. Behold the new paradigm: Trashing civil liberties is fine, as long as you do it in an equal-opportunity way.
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  Social Security numbers, when started in the 1930s, were merely for keeping track of pension earnings. Now, you can't do anything, it seems, from opening a bank account to getting a telephone installed, without one. The same will be true of the new cards, especially since computer chips can be loaded with all kinds of information that government agencies will find useful.
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  But let's indulge Feinstein and her colleagues for a moment. Suppose the card is used as they promise: to verify the right to work. When you start a new job, your boss swipes the card through a machine, and it beeps its approval — except when it doesn't. Your job will be at the mercy of every computer glitch, misspelled name or typing mistake by a data-entry clerk who had a martini with Friday lunch.

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Pros and cons of a US issued national ID card

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There are many issues standing around the entire Biometric RFID Personal information ID Card. This article has many of the standard issues and I would suggest to read through them all. If you don't know about the Technology of RFID. I would suggest doing at least a quick google search on it. This is very serious and very real. If you are so caught up in just letting things happen and doing nothing about it. Be ready and be warned that you may not have your freedom if this actually passes. A National ID. With your very personal information on it is nothing to be messing around with. It is not secure in any way, shape or form, No matter what they say. If it can be hooked up to a computer of any kind, it can be hacked into and stolen.

 

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Here are a few of the pros and cons of issuing national ID cards.

*Pros

>If each citizen in the US carried a standard ID card, when requested by law enforcement, it would be easier to identify legal status or flag anyone who might be associated with a potential terrorist plot.

>Airline boarding would be more efficient and officials screening passengers could quickly verify identities.

>Potential reduction of fraudulent financial activities. An ID card can accompany any purchase and requested by the seller.

>The government and military agencies already use CAC cards http://www.cac.mil/ which contain a computer chip and this technology makes it easier to verify, identify and give access. Citizens carrying a similar ID card would have an easier time making a positive identification of themselves.

>End racial profiling because all individuals could easily show their card.

>Biometrics would make it harder to fraudulently obtain cards. Cards could not be bought off the street with a photo superimposed.

*Cons

>Privacy issues are one of the largest concerns associated with national ID cards. It isn't so much the card itself that is an apprehension, but the technology that could potentially be embedded in the cards and the sensitive information it could contain Not to mention security breaches of information.

>Concerns over how the card could evolve to be used for other purposes aside from ID. Technology is moving quickly and convenience is one of the benefits, but can also be a drawback if commercial business and other organizations begin using the ID card the way they did the social security number.

>Fear the card will take the social security card concept a step further and de-humanize people making them walking containers of data.

>Apprehension of medical records and assistance being connected to chip-embedded ID cards.

>Civil rights, control, and surveillance concerns. This includes potential government permission to travel or work.

>Cost of implementing and issuing not only cards, but the creation and maintenance of the associated technologies. This includes the application process and replacing lost or stolen cards and maintaining databases and keeping the information current.

 

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