Redux Intl. Edition: China's real name Internet mandate

NSTIC: Oh.. it's an ID card for  everything online

TOP STORY

A National Digital ID, Courtesy of the U.S. Postal Service?
c/o Bloomberg

"When China passed a new law two weeks ago requiring people to give their real names when signing up for Internet and phone service, it raised alarms over the surveillance implications for the world’s largest population of Web users. It also highlighted what may be an uncomfortable reality for U.S. netizens: a national digital ID, which essentially is what China is proposing, isn’t entirely a foreign concept. The U.S. is also slowly moving to a system where online personas are inextricably linked to real-world identities, an idea with huge privacy and security implications. 

The tactics and enforcement mechanisms being explored in China and the U.S. are worlds apart, but the central idea is similar: knowing someone’s real name improves accountability online. That’s a double-edged sword, though, depending on who’s doing the accounting. 

The White House’s National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, or NSTIC, is leading the government’s efforts in this area."

:::MORE HERE:::

Biggest prob w/ use/overuse of biometric ID = once it's compromised, your identity is forever at risk. No way to replace #biometricchat A3
— Amie Stepanovich (@astepanovich) January 10, 2013

RELATED:

• Declare Your Independence podcast covers Biometric Internet Access 
• NATO’s global axis is where RFID, biometrics and NSTIC meet

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A late game for RFID advisories in 2012

Recapping RFID current events in 2012 

BTC - It has been a long year filled with ceaseless surveillance onslaughts driven by NATO, the security industrial complex and the US government.  RFID, a controversial radio frequency microchip known for its broadcast surveillance ability, had fallen unnoticed by major media in recent years.  2012 saw a resurgence of RFID in the public sphere of influence and corresponding opposition flowered later in the year.

West Virgina DMV brokers driver information, cardholders struggle with Real ID

Feds Revoke Citizenship at Border, Then Deny U.S. Nationality

Legal Workforce Act is a stealth national ID

Deadline for EVVE to Motor Vehicle Division input June 8th

BTC - You have until exactly June 8th to contest the implementation of yet *ANOTHER* national ID  program, according to Cato, integrating the motor vehicle driver license records into E-Verify's labor records databases.

You may submit comments, identified by docket number DHS-2011-0030 by one of the following methods:

Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.

Follow the instructions for submitting comments.

Fax: 703-483-2999.

Mail: Mary Ellen Callahan, Chief Privacy Officer, Privacy Office, Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC 20528.

Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name and docket number for this rulemaking. All comments received will be posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov,
including any personal information provided.

Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or comments received go to http://www.regulations.gov.


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

For general questions, please contact:
Janice Jackson, Acting Privacy Branch Chief, Verification Division,
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services,
Department of HomelandSecurity,
Washington, DC 20528.

For privacy issues please contact:
Mary Ellen Callahan (703-235-0780),
Chief Privacy Officer, Privacy Office,
Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC 20528.

May 11th, 2011: Deadline for Second Coming of Christ or Real ID?

REDUX: Weekend Review

BTC - Corporations... Government data surveillance; same difference. They both do it.

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Mexico starts to use iris scans on ID cards

A National ID Card for Every American c/o Fellowship of The Minds

"In 1998 the Clinton Administration tested such a privately-funded card without the consent or knowledge of Congress. Their card was part of a special healthcare program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The program was initated in five western States and entailed giving women with dependent children free healthcare in the pilot project that actually tested the effectiveness of the biometric cards, which electronically monitored the whereabouts of the cardholder 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by GPS. The test lasted one year. It was deemed to be a success. Our federal government does have the ability, and the desire, to track the whereabouts of its human capital while they work, when they play, and where they sleep. REAL ID, in other words, is REAL Intrusive."

Trial Begins For Seattle Man Who Refused To Show ID At TSA Checkpoint In Albuquerque

Governor gives voter ID bill emergency status in legislative session

U.S. Cancels "Virtual Fence" with Mexico

USCIS e-Verify still flags eligible employees, says GAO

RE: Corporate Data Surveillance, Watch what you say and text

DIY Government: FTC Comment period on *PRIVACY PRACTICES* extended until 2-18-2011

OTHER RELATED NEWS:

Black Budget in the Red

Facebook suspends personal data-sharing feature

The Companies Who Support Censoring the Internet

How Big Brother is watching you from Israel

FILMS TO GO SEE:

Operation Endgame - Illuminates bureaucracy, comedic lunacy of the underground US Intelligence complex; straight to DVD, comes *highly recommended* for entertainment's sake.

Smash His Camera -  Classic rivalry of privacy in the face of public living. Example here.

REDUX: NSTIC, TSA conferences

JON & KATE PLUS HATE

Bill Maher | Myspace Video


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Social Security Information Systems Near Collapse

Facebook Wants to Supply Your Internet Driver's License

Cato Analysis here.   Similar news here.

Snubbed by Google, Goldman Sachs Manages to Friend Facebook

Republicans start screwing around with Constitution, citizenship.
CEI Analysis here.

Feds Subpoena Twitter Seeking Information on Ex-WikiLeaks Volunteer

Photo ID's could be required to cast ballots in Wisconsin

Rush Holt vs. the airport scanners

Wes Benedict tackles TSA "adult" scanners

DIY GOVERNMENT:
1.11-22.2011 Fast for Justice with Witness Agianst Torture for Brad Manning

1.28.2011 International Data Privacy Day

NCard reports status quo sustained in local elections

BTC - States like North Carolina elected more Republicans in local elections in efforts to curb spending,  stimulus payouts to Wall Street for economic failure, and a pending federal healthcare mandate.  According to Jim Palmer, an anti-national identity organizer based in North Carolina, election turnover to Republicans in both the House and Senate is being taken with a grain of salt.


"Perhaps, both Republicans and Democrats need to learn and understand that if you create a system where all private personal information is accessible it can and will be exploited by hackers, DMV workers, unscrupulous law enforcement, IT personnel and corporations who have access to the data," said Palmer frustrated by the cavalier performance of Statehouse Democrats who took up legislation opposing the federal identity mandate in North Carolina.  


Rep. Cole and Rep. Mackey had both made initial commitments to moving the legislation but never followed through.  Both members lost their seats to Republicans.


North Carolina's DMVs announced plans to adopt FRT or facial recognition technology to convert license pictures to digital images with biometric features last fall.

India's national ID system makes Project Censored Top 25

BTC- Project Censored ranked India's national ID system 22nd out of their top 25 most recent list of censored stories, adding a plug for the American plight against national identity.

(22) 1.2 Billion People in India to be Given Biometric ID Cards

They'll contain a person's name, age, birth date, fingerprints or iris scans, "though no caste or religious identification." Then in five years, a giant computer will hold data for half of them, receiving a 16-digit ID number by 2014 during the project's first phase.

Thereafter, its use will be required for all government and private services from drivers' licenses to hospitals to banking. Critics, however, balk, saying "the project will turn India into an Orwellian police state (able to) spy on citizens' private lives." Despite government denials, it may be precisely for that purpose.

Thus far not enacted, America's Real ID Act plans the same thing, widespread state opposition over the cost having stopped it up to now.

Project Censored produces an annual book on the 25 most censored news stories in America.   Censorship is determined by whether or not a story has endured a range of systemic news omissions through corralled media conventions.  Rationale driving censorship are considered to be political, economic or legal. 

US-UK moves forward against national identity documents

BTC - Pennsylvania state activist Aaron Bollenger reports that an amended version of an anti-Real ID bill cleared committee and is moving toward the House. While this is good news for privacy and identity advocates, those most concerned cannot sigh relief for such a long way to go.

"Session is short – make some calls! If you know others in PA, please pass the word and contact me if anyone needs help with telephone speeches to key members," said Bollenger, who is urging those involved in Pennsylvania State government to move this by next week before opportunity is lost.

Other concerns lie in wait. According to PA ACLU Legislative Director, Andy Hoover, the bill may face a veto if it reaches his desk. If so, activists like Jim Compton won't be giving up the search for the 2/3rd's vote necessary to override the bill.

Related News: PA Senate Package intended to protect privacy

Illinois Petitions against funding Real ID:

According to C4L Organizer, Heather Danielowski

"Legislative support of Real ID comes from representatives of both political parties currently holding office at our state capitol. The party in power in Springfield will do anything to please the establishment in D.C., and the minority party is torn on the issue, as it was the Republicans in D.C. who originally passed the bill to begin with. As is the norm in Illinois, we cannot take for granted that either party will stand up for our rights! This battle can be won - but only if citizens all over the state actively participate."

READ: Illinois Petition here.

UK Legislation to stop ID cards passes Commons

"And so ID cards finish their passage in the Commons. It was an historic day – and full credit to Liberty and the NO2ID card campaigns who along with Liberal Democrats and Conservatives stood up for civil liberty and freedom." 

Related News:  NO2ID "ID cards may be gone – but ‘ID checks’ are out of control"

FLOGGER: State Bureaucrats Continuing to Advance REAL ID

National ID bashing with Cato's Jim Harper 
from Cato@Liberty

Across the country, state legislatures have objected to, and outright rejected, the national ID and surveillance mandate imposed on them by the REAL ID Act. Passed in May 2005 with a compliance deadline three years later, the law has never been implemented. The Department of Homeland Security has repeatedly threatened to deny air travel to people from the states refusing compliance, then backed down when states have not caved to its demands.

But state legislatures are one thing. State-level bureaucrats are quite another. And they are hedgehogging along, positioning their states to implement the national ID law.

Writes Alan Greenblatt in State Legislatures magazine:

In a number of states, motor vehicle departments are doing the behind-the-scenes work necessary to move closer to compliance, including updating computer systems, installing face-recognition software and setting up more secure card production rooms. . . . [E]very state is moving toward compliance. Even in the 14 states where legislatures have explicitly rejected REAL ID through laws or resolutions, some moves have been made in the direction of compliance.

Politicians come and go, but the bureaucrats are in it for life. And they can grow their portfolio by building a national ID.

REDUX: Catching up on important news and news presenters

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BOSTON TEA PARTY OPPOSES NATIONAL ID,  PERIOD. I guess national id cards are officially unamerican.  That doesn't mean they aren't still trying to sell the EDL in Michigan.  Florida is fighting it.  Downsize D.C. amid coalition efforts wants their repeal.  Real ID after 5 years is still getting consistently bad press from the blogosphere.

Facecrook's Mark Zuckerberg, dubbed Little Caesar, waits for someone to defend his privacy.  We hope for a different haircut and to know how much money is awarded to the person who sues the pants off of him .... again.

Facebook as Caesar

GPS tracks again... that's what it does.  Now it gets your kids and the prisoners.  All sitting prospects in the public-private target range for the gubmint market.  I'll bet you're really surprised. Commentary by EFF.

FUSION CENTER UPDATE:  CIR reports... Special word goes out to the Electronic Privacy Information Center.  What do they do? They provide information about Electronic Privacy. It's awesome when they do.

Alternet tackles naked body scanners on the street in broad daylight. God, what a weird feeling that must have been...

STATUS: We are wondering about the individual mandate for a national healthcare ID.

India's issues with the Unique Identification Authority of India.  FYI...Don't buy a cell phone in China...

BEIJING — China wants people who buy new cell phone numbers to register their personal details, joining many European and Asian countries in curbing the anonymous use of mobile technology.

There have been some changes to  FISA,  warrentless cell or telephone tapping are up for PUBLIC INPUT until OCTOBER 24, 2010.   I'm TELLIN'!!

Germany's national ID cards move to contactless technology citing NXP as national ID card chip of choice.  c/o Contactless News

"The German government has selected NXP as the supplier of an inlay solution containing a SmartMX chip, packaged in an ultra-thin module. Issuance of German contactless ID cards, which will replace the current paper-based IDs, will start in November. More than 60 million cards are expected to be rolled out over the next ten years."

FLOGGER Jim Harper takes you on an East German train ride and makes some connection you may have missed.

Denver has a nasty case of Bad Cop according to ProLibertate. However, here's a report causing cognative dissonance in the deliverance of justice in a UK case where CCTV got a bad cop off the streets.

The lost FLOGGER files

BTC -  The dust settled and as we were looking for other things, we discovered that there were more  national ID writings in the Cato @ Liberty digital tome written by Jim Harper that didn't get a second chance on this blog.  He writes on loads of privacy/tech angles as well.

After all the swearing and dusty fumbling we found these:

Here's the lost podcast with Chris Calabrese.
I'm sure it will be good if you can get Cato's media player to actually work.

• Compare and Contrast 
• Stop & Frisk databases
• A lame duck voter ID/national ID, and the pun that makes it all worthwhile
• One from Silicon Valley: Leave us alone
• Yes, Rep. Luis Gutierrez is Pro-National ID ** - Super good.  Read this.
• GAO's Damning report on SPOT - Nice crossover with another blog we digg, Paper's, Please! also on our blogroll. 
• Collecting your DNA - not controversial 
• DHS to States: Pleeease Spend This Money

To keep other important work like THIS from falling through the cracks, please see our blogroll which is linked to Harper's Cato@Liberty blog.  There is also an  RSS tag so you can subscribe to.

Q: What is wrong with Indiana?

"The Coalition for a Secure Driver's License (CSDL), a Washington D.C. based non-profit, presented its Homeland Security Award to the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) at the Government Center Auditorium in Indianapolis, Indiana on July 26, 2010. The awards ceremony was streamed live to all 140 license branches to recognize the hardworking motor vehicle personnel across the state."

BTC -  A: They are one of the few states who enacted the Real ID Act.

Real ID in headlines, Florida, Delaware

Real ID Act stymies drivers
c/o StAugustine.com

"Although the Real ID Act is the law of the land, opposition is building in Congress. HR 3471 and S 1261 each call for repeal of the Real ID Act.

Today, the Real ID Act is still the law. Florida and a dozen other states have adopted it. They are in a minority as the rest of the states have prohibited it or, are considering such action."

*BTC -S 1261 is the PASS Act  - or the Real ID Act with the strict edges knocked off.  Most of the data surveillance structures stay intact.  HR 3471 is Rep. Cohen's bill which repeals Real ID and replaces it with a negotiated rulemaking process.

Long lines afflicting Delaware DMV's, delays
c/o DelawareOnline.com
"There are only a small handful of state lawmakers who remember the late 1960s, when the General Assembly raised the cost of a license tag by 50 percent -- and irate drivers promptly voted a bunch of them out of office that November.

Two to three hours of waiting at the DMV is unacceptable and a misuse of government facilities. Fix it fast. Remember the 1960s."

Delaware DMV unveils new secure ID cards

:: NCard :: MiddleTownTranscript::Dover Post

Dover, Del. —Starting July 1, Delaware’s blue and gold drivers’ licenses will change from simple cards with basic information to high-tech pieces of plastic designed to be more secure and harder to forge than anything that’s come before.

The new identification cards are designed to comply with federal regulations formulated in the wake of the September 11 attacks and crafted to unify procedures and security measures that vary greatly from state to state.

Beginning in 2014, only identification cards designed to the federal standards will be accepted when boarding an airplane or entering a federal building, though no one will be forced to obtain a federally compliant ID.

Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles Director Jennifer Cohan said the First State has been able to move quickly and get a jump on the federal mandates, unlike larger states that remain mired in logistical problems.

“Delaware is in a fortunate spot; we’re a small state,” she said. “We received $1 million from the federal government and we have a whole new computer system.”

To get a new ID, citizens must produce more detailed documentation than before to verify their identities and prove their citizenship.

Before issuing an ID, staff at the DMV will need to see an original birth certificate or valid passport, as well as an original social security card and a recent piece of mail received at a current in-state address.

Even though producing more detailed documentation can mean a bit more hassle for residents, Cohan said the new computer systems would make renewing an ID easier in the future.  :::MORE HERE:::

Nevada's internal conflicts stir on Real ID

BTC -  The State of Nevada  appeared to have successfully "beat the chip" after they endured a 120 day trial period for Real ID.  Constituents and members of State Governance may be experiencing temporary relief. According to the ACLU, the DMV, whose departments are struggling for finances, stated that they would court Nevada's legislature to resurrect the twice defeated federal program.

The new proposed deadline?  May 1, 2011. 

FLOGGER COMMENTARY c/o Cato's  Jim Harper  

Nevadans Don’t Want REAL ID, but the DMV Does, and That’s What Matters

Delaware braces for Real ID

Delaware DMV's to start phasing in federal IDs in July 
c/o Delaware online

Delawareans who want to board a commercial airplane or train in the future will first have to obtain a federally compliant driver's license or state identification card that meets new post-9/11 security standards.

The new requirement takes effect Dec. 1, 2014, for residents born after 1964. Those born before then have until Dec. 1, 2017, to comply with the mandate, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. :::MORE HERE:::

Chris Slaven, Delaware blogger airs his commentary here.

"Because the REAL ID Act is an unfunded mandate, the State of Delaware will have to shoulder the costs associated with issuing the new IDs, meaning, of course, that the costs will be passed on to the people through taxes and fees. Pennsylvania has refused to comply with the mandate because of the inherent unfairness of this situation.


It would never occur to the corrupt politicians in control of Delaware to stick up for the citizens of our state in such a way.


While it’s difficult to find information about how, exactly, the new IDs will be more secure, the DMV assures drivers that they will be. According to dmv.de.gov, the agency will be “comparing all driver license and identification card photos to our facial recognition database to ensure customers standing in front of us are who they say they are.”