Filed under: 1984, andrew Napolitano, Big Brother, biometrics, Control Grid, Dictatorship, DMV, Echelon, Empire, facial recognition, FBI, federal crimes, health care reform, illegal search, Judge Napolitano, Media, nanny state, obamacare, Oppression, orwell, police crimes, Police State, privacy rights, search warrant, Surveillance | Tags: dmv photo records, dmv photos
FBI Doing Facial Recognition Scans on DMV Photo Records
Filed under: 1984, 2-party system, 4th amendment, 9/11, Airport Security, Barack Obama, Big Brother, biometrics, Control Grid, DHS, Dictatorship, DMV, domestic terror, domestic terrorism, Drivers License, Empire, Fascism, Hitler, Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, left right paradigm, michael chertoff, nanny state, national id, national socialist, Nazi, neocons, Neolibs, New World Order, NWO, obama, orwell, Police State, Real ID, RFID, right to privacy, S. 1261, Surveillance, US Constitution, War On Terror
REAL ID Back From The Dead
Richard Esguerra
Electronic Frontier Foundation
August 24, 2009
In February, the opponents of REAL ID were given a bit of hope when Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said that she wanted to repeal the REAL ID Act, the federal government’s failed plan to impose a national identification card through state driver’s licenses. But what has taken place since is no return to sanity, as political machinations have produced a cosmetic makeover called “PASS ID” that has revived the push for a national identification card.
The PASS ID Act (S. 1261) seeks to make many of the same ineffectual, dangerous changes the REAL ID Act attempted to impose. Fundamentally, PASS ID operates on the same flawed premise of REAL ID — that requiring various “identity documents” (and storing that information in databases for later access) will magically make state drivers’ licenses more legitimate, which will in turn improve national security.
Proponents seem to be blind to the systemic impotence of such an identification card scheme. Individuals originally motivated to obtain and use fake IDs will instead use fake identity documents to procure “real” drivers’ licenses. PASS ID creates new risks — it calls for the scanning and storage of copies of applicants’ identity documents (birth certificates, visas, etc.). These documents will be stored in databases that will become leaky honeypots of sensitive personal data, prime targets for malicious identity thieves or otherwise accessible by individuals authorized to obtain documents from the database. Despite some alterations to the scheme, PASS ID is still bad for privacy in many of the same ways the REAL ID was. And proponents of the national ID effort seem blissfully unaware of the creepy implications of a “papers please” mentality that may grow from the issuance of mandatory federal identification cards. Despite token provisions that claim to give states the freedom to issue non-federal identification cards, the card will be mandatory for most — the PASS ID Act seeks to require everyone to show the federally recognized ID for “any official purpose,” including boarding a plane or entering a federal building.
At the moment, health care reform is commanding tremendous attention and effort on the hill, so the PASS ID Act seems to be on the backburner for now. But after the August recess, anything can happen. So stay tuned for more about PASS ID and critical opportunities to flag your opposition to this flawed national ID scheme.
Filed under: 1984, 4th amendment, Airport Security, Big Brother, biometrics, Britain, cell phones, civil liberties, civil rights, Control Grid, Dictatorship, DMV, DNA Database, domestic terrorism, Empire, Europe, european union, facial recognition, FBI, fingerprints, global government, global police force, Globalism, internet police, interpol, london, microchip, microchips, Military Industrial Complex, nanny state, New World Order, NWO, Oregon, orwell, Police State, smoking ban, Surveillance, United Kingdom, US Constitution, War On Terror, world police force | Tags: cop cams, International Criminal Police Organization, Northrop-Grumman, red light camera, Server in the Sky, speeding
Global Police Plan International Face Scanning Database
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
October 20, 2008
Global security authorities are to push for a huge biometric facial scan database of international travelers so they can cross-check everyone against a database of terror suspects, international criminals and fugitives.
Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organization, is planning to expand its role into the mass screening of passengers moving around the world by creating a face recognition database to catch wanted suspects, reports the London Guardian.
The database will hold the records of every citizen who has ever traveled in and out of the virtually every country in the world, representing intelligence agency style bulk interception of information and sounding alarm bells for civil liberties groups.
Two months ago we reported on the moves underway to phase out passport control officers at airports and replace them with biometric face scanning cameras. The automated face recognition gates match passengers to a digital image stored on a microchip in the new e-passports.
Interpol wants a facial database to be linked into this technology and used in conjunction with its already existing fingerprint and DNA databases, according to Mark Branchflower, head of Interpol’s fingerprint unit.
We have previously noted that the vast array of databases currently being employed by intelligence agencies, government and law enforcement agencies worldwide were designed to be linked together in a system which will tie in the management and control of all facets of life for citizens to one central hub.
Earlier this year we reported on the announcement of a vast intelligence program to establish a global biometric database known as “Server in the Sky” that will collate and provide an ” International Information Consortium” with access to the biometric measurements and personal information of citizens across the globe in the name of fighting the “war on terror”.
As reported by the London Guardian, the plan is being formulated by the FBI with the cooperation of the home offices and law enforcement agencies of American allies. The technology is being supplied by the US defense company Northrop Grumman.
Furthermore, the use of such technology, as we have already seen, will not be limited to the passport control office.
A 2007 British government report muted an extensive upgrade to cctv systems all across the country to incorporate facial scanning technology. The report suggested a central database of every camera and a network allowing access to it could be beneficial.
In the US there are several schemes that use Facial Recognition Technology in conjunction with Federal agencies, tying the technology to traditional documents such as drivers licenses, passports and credit cards.
A biometric face recognition system has already been approved in China and is expected to be used at airports, customs entrances, banks, post offices, residential areas and other public places in the near future.
Other proposals include placing the cameras in every seat on aircraft and installing software to try and automatically detect terrorists or other dangers caused by passengers.
We are assured that cigarette vending machines will employ the technology in order to enforce smoking laws. Similarly, supermarkets in the UK have already started trialing the technology with the justification being a crackdown on underage drinking.
In Japan facial scanning cameras are being installed in train and bus stations to replace tickets in a move to make the individual features of the face a “unique bar code” as part of an antiterrorism and anticrime initiative.
Police in Tokyo are also asking home and shop owners to mount the cameras outside their properties. “Police investigating an incident in the neighborhood would have access to these images.” according to reports.
Cell phones and computers are now also being produced with face scanning cameras.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics..canner-liberty
Oregon DMV To Use Facial Recognition Software
http://www.kuik.com/Article.asp?id=954317&spid=
Orwellian U.K. Angers People With Tree Cameras, Snooping Kids
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=..=home
Speed cameras will track drivers for 30 miles
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/3163410/..ivers-for-miles.html
Filed under: 1984, 4th amendment, Big Brother, cashless society, Checkpoints, Control Grid, Dictatorship, DMV, Drivers License, Empire, Fascism, Globalism, microchip, Military, Minority Report, nanny state, national id, Nazi, New World Order, New York, North American Union, Oppression, orwell, Police State, Real ID, RFID, Science and technology, stasi, stasi tactics, Surveillance, us army, US Constitution, War On Terror | Tags: cop cams, eye scanner, eye scanning, IOM, Iris on the Move, iris scanner, iris scanning, red light camera, Sarnoff Corporation
Minority Report: Highspeed Biometric Iris Scanners
Business Wire
September 23, 2008
Sarnoff Corporation today announced it has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to develop and demonstrate a high speed biometric capture technology solution for iris-based identification. The system will be designed to be ruggedized for field use and quickly deployable.
The new iris recognition system will leverage Sarnoff’s patent-pending Iris on the Move(R) (IOM) technology for fast and reliable identification. IOM is a proven biometric identification system that quickly captures the iris image of a person in motion. The technology is ideally suited for force protection, civil-military operations, and combat situations.
Other iris scanning technologies require users to stop, line up their eye properly, and stare directly into a scanner for a period of time. IOM technology verifies identities at speeds of up to thirty people per minute, allowing subjects to walk through the system at a standard pace, without stopping. In addition, Sarnoff’s design will automatically adjust for subjects’ height without slowing throughput.
“Current biometric ID systems take too long to identify people in high traffic areas and cause long lines to form at checkpoints,” said Dr. Don Newsome, President and CEO of Sarnoff Corporation. “This is inconvenient and poses a security risk. The IOM technology makes it easy to set up iris scanning checkpoints that are as reliable as other biometric-based options but quick enough to keep lines moving rapidly.”
The IOM system delivers accurate identification regardless of whether the subject is wearing prescription glasses, most sunglasses, or contact lenses. In addition, IOM technology can capture iris images from farther distances than any other commercial iris scanning technology.
Sarnoff has delivered IOM technology to several secure government facilities and private corporations. The technology can be used for a broader range of applications including banking ID verification, border crossing initiatives, event security, payment systems, and employee access.
Mass chipping of Americans has begun
http://news.yahoo.com/s/a..t=Akh4NAJ1WX3U9j6eiymJiZlbbBAF
Younger teens ‘to get ID cards’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7630088.stm
Photo Ticket Cameras To Track Drivers Nationwide
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/25/2537.asp
Filed under: 2-party system, 2008 Election, 4th amendment, 9/11, Barack Obama, biometrics, bob barr, Congress, Control Grid, DMV, Drivers License, House, John McCain, left right paradigm, national id, neocons, Neolibs, North American Union, obama, privatization, Real ID, Senate, Toll Roads, US Constitution
Barr Blasts McCain and Obama for Supporting National ID, Again Urges Congress to Repeal Real ID Act
Bob Barr 2008
August 1, 2008
“’September 11’ has become the catch-all excuse for virtually every proposed expansion of government power,” notes Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party nominee for president. “One example is a national identification card and data base, long desired by some in government, and which was mandated by legislation passed by the Congress in 2005 with the support of both Senators McCain and Obama. Although I was no longer in the Congress when this bad legislation was passed, I had vigorously opposed it in the years since it became law, just as I led the successful effort to rescind a previous mandate for a national ID card.”
Unfortunately, he explains, “the Real ID Act establishes a new and privacy-invasive national ID card program. By forcing states to standardize their driver’s licenses and creating a vast national data base of private information on the citizenry, the law establishes through the back door something Americans would never have accepted directly—a National Identification Card.” In fact, “there was no open and honest vote on Real ID. The mandate was slipped into a supplemental appropriations bill, discouraging any real debate over the issue.”
“Creating anything close to a national ID card threatens Americans’ basic civil liberties and privacy while doing little or nothing to make us more secure,” warns Barr. The legislation also “means higher fees, longer lines, and greater inconvenience for Americans getting a driver’s license. The burden on states, which have to redesign and remake state licenses and include all manner of information on citizens applying for new driver’s licenses, would be extremely high and immensely costly, since they would have to restructure computer databases, security systems, verification measures, and more.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12173..1.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
North American Union: The dream ’is dead’???
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=70864
Filed under: 4th amendment, biometrics, Brian Schweitzer, Britain, China, Control Grid, DHS, DMV, Drivers License, Europe, Homeland Security, michael chertoff, national id, North American Union, Real ID, RFID, United Kingdom, US Constitution
Montana Governor Tells Feds “Go to Hell” on Real ID
Dvorak Uncensored
March 8, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QDHlakUUiY
I think it’s safe to say that Governor Brian Schweitzer of Montana doesn’t like Real ID, a backdoor way for the government to impose and create a national ID card (with RFID chip which an unauthorized, knowledgeable techie can read) by requiring extensive documentation before you can get a drivers license. Here’s an interesting site devoted to the anti-side of the issue. And here’s what security expert Bruce Schneier thinks of the idea.
LISTEN to the governor explain why he thinks the Feds can shove their Real ID where… Well, you know where. I like this guy’s style!
Homeland Security, on the other hand, considers Real ID to be “pro-consumer.”
http://www.utne.com/2008-03-06/Politics/REAL-ID..sy-to-Steal.aspx
spent time gathering top DHS official’s email addresses. Don’t just bitch, email them personally and let them know you don’t support Real ID’
http://www.sciprose.com/dhs/
Feds warn states of ID deadline, travel hassles
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23456198/
All UK Citizens In ID Database By 2017
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh../2008/03/06/nid506.xml
UK: ID cards are the ultimate identity theft
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/c..contributors/article3499317.ece
China Puts RFID Tags In A Billion ID Cards
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2211418/china-rfid-growing
What is the ‘North American Union’?
Filed under: 9/11, 9/11 hijackers, Airport Security, Big Brother, biometrics, Brian Schweitzer, Control Grid, DHS, DMV, Drivers License, Globalism, Homeland Security, Media, michael chertoff, montana, national id, North American Union, Police State, Real ID, Social Security, Surveillance
Montana Governor Forments Real ID Rebellion
Wired
January 18, 2008
Montana governor Brian Schweitzer (D) declared independence Friday from federal identification rules and called on governors of 17 other states to join him in forcing a showdown with the federal government which says it will not accept the driver’s licenses of rebel states’ citizens starting May 11.
If that showdown comes to pass, a resident of a non-complying state could not use a driver’s license to enter a federal courthouse or a Social Security Administration building nor could he board a plane without undergoing a pat-down search, possibly creating massive backlogs at the nation’s airports and almost certainly leading to a flurry of federal lawsuits.
States have until May 11 to request extensions to the Real ID rules that were released last Friday. They requires states to make all current identification holders under the age of 50 to apply again with certified birth and marriage certificates. The rules also standardize license formats, require states to interlink their DMV databases and require DMV employee to undergo background checks.
Extensions push back the 2008 deadline for compliance as far as out 2014 if states apply and promise to start work on making the necessary changes, which will cost cash-strapped states billions with only a pittance in federal funding to offset the costs.
Last year Montana passed a law saying it would not comply, citing privacy, states’ rights and fiscal issues.
In his letter (.pdf) to other governors, Schweitzer makes clear he’s not going to ask for an extension.
“Today, I am asking you to join with me in resisting the DHS coercion to comply with the provisions of REAL ID, ” Schweitzer wrote. “If we stand together either DHS will blink or Congress will have to act to avoid havoc at our nation’s airports and federal courthouses.”
But Homeland Security spokeswoman Laura Keehner says DHS has no intention of blinking.
“That will mean real consequences for their citizens starting in may if their leadership chooses not to comply,” Keehner said. “That includes getting on an airplane or entering a federal building, so they will need to get passports.”
Keehner says DHS’s policy won’t change even if Georgia — one of the 17 states that has signaled strong opposition to the rules — declines to apply for an extension.
If that scenario came to pass, every Georgian who flies out through the nation’s busiest airport — Atlanta-Hartsfield International — would have to be patted down by Homeland Security agents and have his carry-on bag hand-screened, likely resulting in massive delays.
Keehner also suggests that patted-down citizens will turn their wrath not on the feds but on their state government.
For his part, Schweitzer wants Congress to step up and pass alternative legislation that would stop Real ID and re-instate a commission that was working on driver’s license rules before the REAL ID Act was slipped into must-pass defense legislation in 2005. That legislation assigned DHS the task of setting the rules single-handedly.
Keehner is adamant that the rules will make the country safer and that the price tag is not too high.
“The ability to get false identification must end, and Real ID is that step,” Keehner said.
Privacy groups counter that the rules create a de-facto national identification card and won’t stop terrorism or identity theft.
For his part, Schweitzer struck back at DHS statements he obviously considers arrogant.
“I take great offense at this notion we should all simply ‘grow up’,” Schweitzer wrote, referring to Thursday remarks from DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff about border rules regarding Canada. Schweitzer says those remarks “reflect DHS (sic) continued disrespect for the serious and legitimate concerns of our citizens.”
A DHS policy maker suggested earlier this week that Real IDs could also be required to buy cold medicine and to prove employment eligibility.
Schweitzer’s letter went out to the governors of Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Maine, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Arizona, Hawaii, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Washington.
Mainstream Media Acknowledges The National ID Card
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOQgerd0m2g
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18118652
Status of Anti-Real ID Legislation in the States
http://www.realnightmare.org/news/105/
US.gov sets Real ID rules in stone
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/14/realid_changes_issued/
