Libertarian Party of Florida chairman heads to court challenge over Real ID

ACTION ALERT: Oppose the E-Verify National ID System

REDUX: ID cards not enough to buy meds or opt-out of TSA patdowns

BTC -- Imagine members of the hit reality TV show, Jersey Shore, unable to drive suddenly because they weren't able to provide the right Papers.  What could be worse? If the network couldn't hire them because of a technicality on their government issued IDs.

Here's a follow up from Ed Hasbrouck, posting mail from a New Jersey citizen whose genius Garden State government went ahead with adopting Real ID compliant regs as law.

"I am a natural born citizen of the United States, born and raised in the State of New Jersey. I have lived here most of my life. I have never been convicted of a felony nor even a misdemeanor. I have never been arrested, nor even ever received so much as a parking ticket. I do not receive any funds from Welfare, Social Security, or any other government program. I am not a terrorist.

Yet, in the State of New Jersey, it is illegal for any employer to hire me, and has been for about the last 6 years."

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REAL ID Act making it hard for legal immigrants to renew driver licenses


TSA pat down despite medical ID card -- Don't miss priceless explanation from TSA's Pistole-bot.

Austin PD bone up on social media, high tech crime investigations 

Ohio Appeals Court Strikes Down GPS Vehicle Spying

Internet firms co-opted for Internet [data] surveillance

No2ID reports the UK's National Healthcare Database is still a threat to privacy

"NO2ID along with our friends in the NHS Confidentiality Campaign have
long argued that electronic records might well be beneficial to
patients, and many GPs are using them – but that is not the same as
creating a system where privacy barriers are torn down, and all
medical records are potentially available anywhere depending on
official whim."

US Attorney General defends EU data sharing agreement

PAPERS, PLEASE!: How would REAL-ID affect the right to travel in 2011?

The Best Among Us by Chris Hedges

To be declared innocent in a country where the rule of law means nothing, where we have undergone a corporate coup, where the poor and working men and women are reduced to joblessness and hunger, where war, financial speculation and internal surveillance are the only real business of the state, where even habeas corpus no longer exists, where you, as a citizen, are nothing more than a commodity to corporate systems of power, one to be used and discarded, is to be complicit in this radical evil. To stand on the sidelines and say “I am innocent” is to bear the mark of Cain; it is to do nothing to reach out and help the weak, the oppressed and the suffering, to save the planet. To be innocent in times like these is to be a criminal. 

 Ask Tim DeChristopher. 

Choose. But choose fast. The state and corporate forces are determined to crush this. They are not going to wait for you.    

TSA Finally Speeding Up The Airport Fast Lane

c/o Forbes

"If you are a member of CBP’s Global Entry, Nexus or Sentri Trusted Traveler programs, you may be able to access certain dedicated screening lanes. In conjunction with this service, CBP is installing Global Entry kiosks at certain Canadian airports where travelers are pre-cleared to enter the U.S. so they do not have to go through immigration or customs at a U.S. port of entry. Kiosks are, or will be installed at Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto by the end of this month although when I was in Montreal last week CBP knew nothing about the program. 

CBP will be issuing members of the Global Entry program a Sentri RFID card for a $15 processing fee. Sentri is currently being used at the Otay Mesa, San Ysidro, and Calexico border crossings in California and the El Paso (Stanton Street Bridge) crossing in Texas."

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RELATED Smart Card ID NEWS:

“The top contactless applications during the next five years are projected to be bank cards, government and healthcare ID cards, transportation and physical access cards. These four applications are projected to account for around 99% of units shipped in 2016.”

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Intermission: Don't Fence Me In

BTC- Posthumous commentary by King of Funk, James Brown.