National ID won’t make us more secure

SAN FRANCISCO - A 2005
federal law requires states to issue standardized, machine-readable
driver’s licenses by May 2008, in effect converting them to a national
identification card that will be required to enter a federal building
or fly on an airplane. The Department of Homeland Security wants to
hire private data aggregators to ensure that applicants really are who
they claim to be.
The REAL ID would contain your name,
birth date, sex, perhaps a digital photo and fingerprints, and maybe
even a retinal scan or radio frequency identification chip, all of
which would be entered into a database linked with other states and the
federal government. Critics call REAL ID — which could cost the states
$11 billion over the next six years — an invasion of the privacy of
law-abiding Americans.........

..........But he also points out that depending on just one ID is unwise from a
national security viewpoint as well. Requiring multiple forms of
identification depending upon the circumstances would actually be more
secure than one national ID because “the combination lowers the chances
of misidentification.”