Sunday, February 26, 2012

So Much For Real ID Keeping America ‘safe’

The Fallacy of REAL ID Hits Home in Wisconsin

The Federal government insists that if they can just have all of your personal information on file, that America would be safer. Gun Shy has no problem with presenting documents that prove who you are and where you live so that potential criminals and terrorist can not get a valid drivers license in Florida. The problem begins when they demand that you must surrender your documents so that they may scan them and keep them on file, giving unknown others access to your personal information, as well as setting up a scenario where hackers can get everything they need with one stop shopping to steal your identity. And then of course, there is this:

SECTION 12. Searches and seizures.–The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, and against the unreasonable interception of private communications by any means, shall not be violated. No warrant shall be issued except upon probable cause, supported by affidavit, particularly describing the place or places to be searched, the person or persons, thing or things to be seized, the communication to be intercepted, and the nature of evidence to be obtained. This right shall be construed in conformity with the 4th Amendment to the United States Constitution, as interpreted by the United States Supreme Court. Articles or information obtained in violation of this right shall not be admissible in evidence if such articles or information would be inadmissible under decisions of the United States Supreme Court construing the 4th Amendment to the United States Constitution.”

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