Radio chip coming soon to your 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.
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