[privacy] DHS to Outsource REAL ID

[Brian Loe]

On 1/14/07, Fergie <fergdawg at netzero.net> wrote:

> What does this all mean? Quite simply, this is the outsourcing of our
> Constitutional rights. It means that all privacy protections on our drivers
> licence data will be removed once the DMV sends your data to the private
> corporation.
>
> [snip]
>


Without reading the article, that's an exceptionally ignorant
statement. There is nothing Constitutional about a driver's license,
or an ID, for one. Two, the data contained within such an ID is
already held by public/private databases all over the country right
now - and much of it is public knowledge. While I hate the idea of
centralized databases collecting information on me, that's just the
state of things today, no point in trying to avoid it unless you plan
to move to a third world country.