The US Real ID Act could directly reach beyond US borders, according to James Plummer, Policy Director of the Liberty Coalition. That's something I had not appreciated previously.
"Title II of the REAL ID Act repeals the Senate-crafted language concerning state driver's licenses from the last Congress' intelligence reform package in favor of even more troubling anti-privacy provisions. The first troubling aspect of the license provisions is the requirement that states link their identity databases and join something called the "Driver License Agreement." That agreement, a proposed interstate compact, has been drafted by AAMVA, the Association of American Motor Vehicle Administrators - a kind of trade association of DMV bureaucrats. The compact, which no state has voluntarily joined, would also allow the states and provinces of Mexico and Canada to join into this database system - without further input from state elected officials.
Making Americans' sensitive identity information available to foreign government officials is not a sensible or coherent method for making Americans safe...
...the design requirement for "physical security features designed to prevent tampering, counterfeiting, or duplication of the document for fraudulent purposes" is so broad that Homeland Secretary may read it to include fingerprints, scans of the iris or retina of the eye, or even DNA.
Thus, without further input from Congress or others, Homeland Secretary could mandate such supremely sensitive data be in a database system accessible to foreign governments."
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