A Number, Not A Name- Big Brother By Stealth - By Clair Wolfe

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A Number, Not A Name: Big Brother By

Stealth

by Claire Wolfe

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This article and last year's "Land-Mine Legislation" address similar

issues. However,"A Number, Not a

Name" contains updated, corrected

and more detailed material. It was also

written for a respectable publication

(The Freeman, May 1998, The

Foundation for Economic Education,

Irvington-on-Hudson, NY.), and its

chief virtue may be that you could

share it with your grandmother or your

pastor more readily than some of my

more inflammatory stuff. The version

presented here is the original, unedited

copy. It differs somewhat from the

version printed by The Freeman.

When Colorado Congressman Dan Schaefer held a Consumer

Protection Seminar in October 1997, he thought he was going to

educate constituents about guarding their privacy against con artists.

Instead, it was Schaefer who got an education.

"My concern with privacy," snapped the first person to rise for a

question-and-answer session, "is what the damn government is doing

to me."

A flood of comment followed--nearly all of it about laws passed by

Schaefer's own Republican 104th Congress and signed by President

Clinton. Together, these laws create the most comprehensive ID and

citizen-tracking system ever imposed upon any country.

Yet they have received little attention in the mainstream media and in

some cases were passed with little or no debate in Congress.

In the Beginning was the ID Card

Since September 30, 1996, the U.S. has had a mandate for a de facto

national ID card.

Public Law 104-208, Division C, Title VI, Subtitle D, Section 656

reads:

In other words, once this law goes into effect, your drivers license will

continue to be issued by your state, but it will meet specifications set

by the federal government, including use of your social security

number and presence of federally specified security features.

Any time you wish to receive a service from the federal government,

you will be required to produce this license or a similar non-driver ID.

No alternates will be accepted.

Insecurity Features

Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater has not published his

proposed regulation on "security features." (The law required him to

do by September 30, 1997.) However, we already know that these

features will not consist of innocuous, anonymous items like those in

our recently redesigned currency. They will contain, among other

things, your biometric measurements.

The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA),

the group assisting Slater with design of the card, has already made

this apparent via state laws being passed at their behest. Some 28

states have begun, or proposed, changing their drivers licenses since

IMPROVEMENTS IN IDENTIFICATION-RELATED

DOCUMENTS(b)(1)(A)

...A Federal agency may not accept for any identification-

related purpose a drivers' license, or other comparable

identification document, issued by a State, unless the license

or document satisfies the following requirements¬.

(ii) Social security number.--Except as provided in

subparagraph (B), the license or document shall contain a

social security account number that can be read visually or by

electronic means.[Note 1]

(iii) Form.--The license or document otherwise shall be in a

form consistent with requirements set forth in regulations

promulgated by the Secretary of Transportation after

consultation with the American Association of Motor Vehicle

Administrators. The form shall contain security features

designed to limit tampering, counterfeiting, photocopying, or

otherwise duplicating the license...

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