Government Moving Forward with Laws Requiring RFID in Drivers' Licenses

The government is using heightened security concerns arising from the manufactured 'war on terror' and illegal immigration to increase interest and research into biometric technology, with the end goal being mandatory electronic biometric national IDs. The 'war on terror' has destroyed America more in the last ten years than any attack on home soil. "The events of September 11, 2001, were the trigger for a flurry of developments in the biometrics field. The USA Patriot Act, passed in October 2001, introduced measures requiring all foreign visitors to provide machine-readable, biometric travel documents, and put into place an entry-exit system to monitor movements to and from the country. This legislation prompted a number of other countries to adapt their travel documents accordingly and to set up biometric identity checks to ensure border security" [Rebekah Thomas, Biometrics, Migrants, and Human Rights, Global Commission on International Migration, Migration Policy Institute, March 2005].

Florida Considers RFID Chips for Driver's Licenses

April 1, 2011

NBC Channel 2 News, Lee County, Florida - An amendment to a Senate bill is working its way through Florida Senate committees that would require an "electronic authentication" to be added to Florida drivers' licenses.

Right now, drivers' licenses have all the information on the back strip. But to access it, it has to be swiped. The amendment would place Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips in the license, which could compromise the security of your identity.

Security expert Walk Augustinowicz breaks down the bill.

"There are other states with RFID in their drivers' licenses, Vermont, New York, Michigan, Washington state," he says.

He goes on to say these states started using the RFID chips as a way to ensure licenses couldn't be duplicated.

However, he explains how easy it is to steal the card's card information in less than a second if you're in the range of an RFID reader.

"It's not something to be taken lightly," he says. "anything once you put a radio chip in it, you need to have physcial protection. There's always a hacker that's going to figure a way around it."

While this is the same technology that could be put in your driver's license, Walt says some states provide people with a security sleeve that protects licenses from being scanned.

Currently, the bill has not been passed. It must still clear several hurdles before being presented to the governor.

Brazilians Forced to Use RFID Chips and GPS Trackers in Cars

October 30, 2010

AboveTopSecret - Brazil's government, behind the facade of open democracy, continues to advance its way as one of the most authoritarian police states in the world.

Brazilian population will be forced very soon to have in their cars identification chips (RFID), besides GPS locators and blockers.

The implications of this? Imagine this in the hands of a corrupt and totalitarian government, which decides to label as terrorists those who disagree with its actions? Brazilian should unite and reject this law, modeled on the American war on terror, using security as pretext for the removal of our freedoms and privacy.

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New World Order in Brazil

If this ends up being a plan for the United States, I'd be pretty angry. They will be able to track your car anywhere in the country; and not only that, have the ability to shut it down.

Military, and Government vehicles will not need the RFID Chip.

§ 2: The use of military vehicles are exempt from this requirement.
Article 2: No motor vehicle, electrical, trailer and semi-trailer can be licensed on roads open to traffic without being equipped with the electronic board of this resolution.

"The full resolution can be downloaded" here

If all this is true, I wonder how they'll get this done.

If there really is a 'New World Order', this maybe a view of what's to come.

What Will the REAL ID Act’s Driver’s License Restrictions Really Do?

National Immigration Law Center
May 2005

• Repeal the federal driver’s license standards that were signed into law by President Bush just last December as part of the 9/11 Commission antiterrorism law.
• Halt the process of consultation and rulemaking that has already begun under the 9/11 law.
• Substitute new top-down rules that will stifle state innovation on security measures.
• Make it impossible for many legal immigrants to get driver’s licenses through no fault of
• their own.
• Raise insurance rates; increase traffic fatalities.
• Make us more vulnerable to terrorism and other crimes.
• Distract from urgently needed immigration reforms.

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