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Is the REAL ID the real solution?

Is the soon to be implimented REAL ID anything more than a way for the government to have more control over the population? Why was it secretly attached to a military spending bill in order to be signed into law? Does thi keep terrorists out, or give the government more targets for persecution?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    This legislation is vague regarding the data that may be required to be stored on Real IDs. Place your digital DNA sample here, your fingerprint there...who knows? Just wait until they slip RFID chips into IDs. Your movements, purchases, medical history, political and religious affiliations, etc. will be tracked by the government, or even worse, corporate America! Tech-savvy thieves will be able to steal your identity, or the cash stored on your ID, as they walk by you with their cell phones. (Our new passports now have said chips in them.) People who have non-compliant IDs will be made into second class citizens, denied public services, denied the freedom to enter/leave the country, or even your home state! Privacy, and the freedom that comes with it, is eroding. New Hampshire tried to pass a law telling the Feds to flip off, but died in the legislature. Ironically, N.H. was chosen as the pilot state to try out the new IDs! Watch what happens there, if you want to divine the future! This act is just a sneaky way of creating a national ID card, which the public does not want, I believe....

  • LeAnne
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    All of the information needed for a real ID is already readily available to the government - the big opposition seems to be that people are concerned with all of this information being stored in one data bank. Kind of makes it a one stop shopping adventure for a computer hacker.

  • 1 decade ago

    I don't like it, very Big Brother.

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