MMichaelAK
03-07-2007, 12:01 PM
Don't get out your Aluminum Foil hats just yet...
I'm not sure how much any one else has heard about this thing, but in the Tsunami Relief bill, the 2005 congress passed a National Identification Card requirement. This was authored by Jim Sensenbrenner (R) Wisconsin. This is to be an RF chip system with the idea that Homeland Security will be more easily able to track us as we go through airports or wherever they wish to set up an RF reader. The creation of the database has already been outsourced so it not being done by a government body.
This is my concern. How much of my personal information do I want in another national database? Will they only want my name, address, date of birth, location of birth, social security number, drivers license, CCW permit information, voter registration affiliation, criminal record or more? What is there to stop them from adding one or more items from that list if they only begin with the very basics; name, address, date of birth and where I was born? Do I really want the Department of Homeland Security to know what party I belong to and whether I have a firearm?
They have an outline of the information required in the ID so far, but I for one do not trust them to keep to that list.
It is not all that difficult to buy your own RF reader so it is entirely possible that someone who should not be looking at that data could, and the owner would not know. The idea that I can not keep my identification secure even if it is in my wallet, in my pocket bothers me.
The State of Maine has already passed legislation that it will not comply. I hope Alaska follows suit.
Okay, now you can get those foil hats out, and put your blinders on if you wish. I'm faxing my local legislators instead.
I'm not sure how much any one else has heard about this thing, but in the Tsunami Relief bill, the 2005 congress passed a National Identification Card requirement. This was authored by Jim Sensenbrenner (R) Wisconsin. This is to be an RF chip system with the idea that Homeland Security will be more easily able to track us as we go through airports or wherever they wish to set up an RF reader. The creation of the database has already been outsourced so it not being done by a government body.
This is my concern. How much of my personal information do I want in another national database? Will they only want my name, address, date of birth, location of birth, social security number, drivers license, CCW permit information, voter registration affiliation, criminal record or more? What is there to stop them from adding one or more items from that list if they only begin with the very basics; name, address, date of birth and where I was born? Do I really want the Department of Homeland Security to know what party I belong to and whether I have a firearm?
They have an outline of the information required in the ID so far, but I for one do not trust them to keep to that list.
It is not all that difficult to buy your own RF reader so it is entirely possible that someone who should not be looking at that data could, and the owner would not know. The idea that I can not keep my identification secure even if it is in my wallet, in my pocket bothers me.
The State of Maine has already passed legislation that it will not comply. I hope Alaska follows suit.
Okay, now you can get those foil hats out, and put your blinders on if you wish. I'm faxing my local legislators instead.