Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform
By David Kravets
05.10.13
6:30 AM
The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system.
Buried in the more than 800 pages of the bipartisan legislation (.pdf) is language mandating the creation of the innocuously-named “photo tool,” a massive federal database administered by the Department of Homeland Security and containing names, ages, Social Security numbers and photographs of everyone in the country with a driver’s license or other state-issued photo ID.
https://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/immigration-reform-dossiers/
