In response to our modern not all real states drivers license and Pearl Harbor, 9 / 11 the federal government has gone far over the adoption of measures to prevent terrorism. They have taken measures to prevent the freedom of U.S. citizens taken. In the hurricane of the post 9 / 11 legislation sweeping through Congress, a suspected minor addition to a military appropriations and tsunami relief bill (HR1268), the Real ID Act of 2005 (HR418), gave the federal government any control over our State issued driver’s license. Not only does this completely ignore the Tenth Amendment, which states that all powers not enumerated, the Federal Government in the Constitution reserved to the people or the States, there was power to the Department of Homeland Security, absolutely zero control or was in order.

DHS may also decide which “functions” on a Real ID, with no input from the States, or anyone, what it is at all necessary. In fact, the DHS has an internal first pass for entry to federal buildings and air travel required, then opened for any other purpose, your license is currently provided. Despite the authoritarian implications that imposes such a system, there are numerous other features disturbing, that the damage to come not to mention our local and state governments to expand ourselves.With the implementation of Real ID will require local and state driver’s license databases to be shared by any other state, federal government, Canada and Mexico. Each state has its DMV in whatever manner chosen by the state. Databases are on different platforms, different operating systems and different software architectures. The large number of different database applications, together with each other and with all the different applications in the Federal Government is proving difficult, not only wild but also extremely expensive to connect. It is projected that it will take more than 9 billion U.S. dollars to the trick. This financial burden falls to the States. There are no federal allocation of funds in the Real ID Act, and there are penalties for failure states. The connection and the cost is only the beginning of the problems. Once connected to the systems must be safe. Networks are difficult to secure widely dispersed, as they now stand. Setting up a multi-national inter-related system over the entire North American continent would be handy, if not impossible. What does this mean for you and me? Identity theft on a catastrophic scale. Hackers can use some amazing things. With a system of widely dispersed, and maintained by the government, which never really does anything well, it would be a matter of months before the data on each and every person in the United States held at the fingertips of the devious computer criminals in the world.

Moreover, corrupt insiders at all levels of government would have access to the masses of information that you have to steal them and sell them. As if that were not bad enough to have the Real ID biometrics. What is it? It is the digital seek thy face, which can be uploaded and analyzed with face detection and a digital thumbprint. It would be very difficult to protect yourself from identity theft, if the perpetrators know more about you than you and reproduction of the face and fingerprints to use in order to commit crimes. An example of how the preparation of the Real ID bill has already made people Cattorini. Bill Cattorini retired from the Chicago Fire Department is a local hero who made his community well. Now his congregation not to grant him a new license. Why? Since the Social Security Administration does not have the same date of birth, have reached record as a licensed driver. This points to the many points of failure in the system in a data management point of view. Hundreds of people a year will deal with these issues and without a license in the meantime. The cost in time and get money, a new ID will increase steadily. The worst is the one who can get a false ID is now in a position to be a fake Real ID. It does nothing to prevent illegal immigration, yet the fight against terrorism. It only serves to monitor U.S. citizens for the sole purpose of the demand for power over the citizens. To insult to the already damaging the scope of the Real ID, the “common machine-readable” add-clause is interpreted by the DHS alone. RFID chips, which are already in all newly issued passports will soon be required by your driver’s license, too. RFID is readable at a distance.

You could be scanned without knowledge and without giving reasons. This is a breach of privacy and a violation of some changes in the Bill of Rights is not a one-stop shop for identity thieves, that a remote reader for $ 8 can build up on eBay to mention. It violates the Fourth Amendment by the illegal search and seizure of personal information without probable cause. It violates the fifth amendment by the withdrawal of property without due process ourselves (our identity, body and papers) are our property. It violates the Tenth Amendment by imbuing the federal government with an unenumerated power by the state, thus threatening the sovereignty of each State reserved. Fortunately, Real ID has met tremendous resistance from many states. Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Washington have all passed statutes banning Real ID. Most other states have at least put in place legislation against it. However, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, New Jersey, New Mexico have, Oregon, Texas, Vermont, and done nothing. In fact, Kentucky has already bar coded licenses personal information on the back. The deadline for compliance with the Real ID was the 11th May 2008. This has come and gone, but the ghost still haunts us. The DHS offered to encourage states to apply for an extension for compliance. All states without legislation against Real ID are used for the extension. All states have banned, Real ID, have received extensions without their request. Now we wait for 31st December 2010. There is a further extension after that, which will expire in the summer of 2013, and this is the time when the act was not repealed, we will see how far the states and the people let the government push on.