The deadline of yet another, and perhaps the most insidious, element of the post-9/11 initiatives (a partial list of which includes the establishment of the Transportation Security Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, and a never-ending international war against a nebulously-defined, noncorporeal enemy, "terror") is less than one year from coming to fruition. Beginning no later than October 1, 2020, citizens of all US states and territories will be required to have a Real ID compliant card or US passport to board a commercial plane or enter a Federal government facility. Pundits citing the inevitability of what amounts to a national ID card have, regrettably, been vindicated.
https://www.aier.org/article/while-you-slept-government-created-internal-passports/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 06 2019, @02:33PM (1 child)
You're dumb.
You're also saying that it's a state-branded national ID.
(Score: 1) by zion-fueled on Thursday November 07 2019, @01:22AM
It is a state branded national ID.
The act required the following:
1. Centralized ID issuing point in each state.
2. Multiple verifications on info submitted
3. Info is shared with and checked against a "fusion" center.
So there are only 50 places making IDs and the federal government has full access to the data.