Radio chip coming soon to your driver's license?

[James]

Radio chip coming soon to your driver's license?

Homeland Security seeks next-generation REAL ID

osted: February 28, 2009
12:25 am Eastern

By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily


Washington state's enhanced driver's license

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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[Hugo Chavez]

excellent.  I'll make a killing selling wallets with a foil mesh lining on the Alex Jones show.  I gotta get started on these so I'm the first to market with them.

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worldnet haha....this is the only "news source" that is pushing the story.

you should dreadsome of the other rediculous shit they write

[Ganuvanx]

worldnet haha....this is the only "news source" that is pushing the story.

you should dreadsome of the other rediculous shit they write

I love idiots that quickly dismiss information like this. Enhanced driver’s licenses are already in use in certain states and provinces:

http://www.bctravel.com/travel2.html

“For decades, U.S. and Canadian citizens could travel between the two countries and simply declare their citizenship verbally or show a driver's license. That's been steadily tightened in recent years, especially since the Sept 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, through what's called the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative USA.”

Hmmm, one more “terrorist” attack and what do you think is gonna happen?

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I love idiots that quickly dismiss information like this. Enhanced driver’s licenses are already in use in certain states and provinces:

http://www.bctravel.com/travel2.html

“For decades, U.S. and Canadian citizens could travel between the two countries and simply declare their citizenship verbally or show a driver's license. That's been steadily tightened in recent years, especially since the Sept 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, through what's called the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative USA.”

Hmmm, one more “terrorist” attack and what do you think is gonna happen?

i'm sorry, has it been put into law in the states??

get back to me on that one

[marcus]

Would running a magnet over it or putting it in the microwave for 2 seconds disable the chip?