[privacy] DHS to Outsource REAL ID

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via UnRealID.com.

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The Department of Homeland Security plans to outsource REAL ID
implementation to third-party data aggregators, according to official DHS
documents. The Department of Homeland Security has finished their proposed
regulations for implementing the Real ID Act and has sent them to the
Office of Management and Budget for approval. The publication of DHS's REAL
ID regulations will follow shortly.

The compliance guidelines are almost one year overdue. According to a
still-secret several hundred-page dossier sent last week by DHS to the
Office of Management and Budget, DHS considered three ways to implement the
REAL ID Act:

* Plan A: Order the individual states to find a way of communicating data
to one another. This idea was given short shrift by DHS, who dismissed it
out of hand.

* Plan B: Have DHS build a centralized database for the states to query
before issuing REAL ID-compliant drivers licenses. This idea was also
rejected.

* Plan C: Have a private data aggregator act as the central database. This
is the plan advocated by DHS. The plan calls for the outsourcing of all
drivers license and ID card checks to a private corporation, who would then
charge the states for each check performed. DHS head Michael Chertoff
personally ordered this option to be chosen, according to a senior
administration source.

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.

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More:
http://www.unrealid.com/

- - ferg

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