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Professor Donahues research backs up materials distributed by the FBI in 2010 that
showed facial recognition technology being used by authorities to identify, investigate
and track individuals in public. This sort of surveillance, while not pervasive yet, is
more than just a theoretical risk. It is being done.
NLETS, the International Justice and Public Safety Network, has a vested interest
in using biometric data so you wouldnt expect them to present an extreme view as to
the privacy concerns relating to its product one of its newer products which is the
interstate sharing of biometric photos.
NLETS is the conduit for sharing the biometric data collected by the DMV as is required
by the REAL ID ACT.
In 2011 NLETS released an eye-openeing report, Privacy Impact Assessment
Report for the Utilization of Facial Recognition Technologies to Identify Subjects
in the Field which focuses on facial recognition field identification tools that use DMV
images.
According to NLETS there are many types of privacy risks surrounding the use of facial
recognition technology and the report openly acknowledges that using this technology
will hinder our ability to be anonymous, which, and is according to NLETS, an
important right in a free society
NLETS also informs us of another basic truth, but its one I get raised eyebrows over
when I say it. NLETS says that As an instrument of surveillance, identification
increases the governments power to control individuals behavior.
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You may have heard about the first 3 official purposes which requires you to present
your REAL ID when;
Entering certain federal buildings
Boarding a commercial airliner
Entering a nuclear facility
The media has let us down by not asking tough questions and as a result, the threat of
enforcement has been wildly overblown. In reality, the enforcement of the three official
purposes will effect very few people
Its the fourth official purpose that is the real wild card. The fourth official purpose
requires you to present a federal REAL ID for: any other purpose established by
the Secretary of Homeland Security
This allows the Secretary of the Dept. of Homeland Security to tack on additional
purposes that require a REAL ID in the future without any input from the people or
congress. DHS has made it clear by that additional purposes will definitely be
considered and that these additional purposes can be added solely at the DHS
Secretarys discretion.
--A mandatory biometric ID is indispensable for anything that the government wants to
monitor, ration or control and once they have it - they will use it.
How can our state seriously consider Real ID compliance when doing so explicitly
means agreeing to give an unelected federal bureaucrat so much power over the state
and its citizens?
Last point- It is important that we understand that biometrics do not establish a
persons identity. The common refrain is that we need biometric ID so we can know
that a person is who they claim to be. But that is not how it works.
We may be many things to many people but the fact remains that it is our birth
certificate which establishes our legal identity. The biometrics are added after the fact
and our identity card can only be as good as the foundation upon which it rests.
Take for Frances for example. France has issued app. 6.5 million biometric passports
yet an estimated 500,000 to 1 million of them are worthless because they are based on
fraudulent breeder documents
EVVE, Electronic Verification of Vital Events, is service available to the states, that
electronically validates (or invalidates) both birth and death records without exchanging
any personal information. It is the best system available for authenticating our
foundation documents. Guess how many states are actually using this system?
Only 1 state and its not Oklahoma.
I am not enthusiastic about a whole lot of scrutiny on everyones papers but doesnt it
make more sense to scrutinize a persons documents before you resort to scrutinizing
their body?
Let me be quick to add, that there is no perfect ID, not one that a free society could
tolerate anyways. It is technically possible to implement a literal womb to tomb
biometric ID but it would have to be affixed to the actual body rather than on a flimsy
document that could be lost or stolen. That would be pretty airtight but also horrible.
Although h it is true that some people do bad things with their privacy it is also true that
sometimes the ability to shed your legal identity is a matter of life and death.
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Requiring biometric ID for ordinary, law abiding people is unnecessary, too risky and
just plain wrong. It should stop.
If REAL ID is fully implemented in this state, we will be subject to more government
intrusion and control over their daily lives.
If we implement REAL ID, the state government must cede some jurisdiction and thus
its power. The state will be less able to act in its citizens behalf and the citizens lose
the ability to hold their government accountable --- Why would we sign up for this?
What is the benefit?
The decision of our state legislators made reject REAL ID in 2007 was a sound one.
We should stick with it.