http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/immigration-reform-dossiers/
FUQ, I swear the title should be enough!
But you know what I love about this article? The comments section.
Wired tends to draw the more intelligent crowd and you can see the posters handing a commenter his ass about voter ID laws being bad.
FUQ, I swear the title should be enough!
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.
This piece of the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act is aimed at curbing employment of undocumented immigrants. But privacy advocates fear the inevitable mission creep, ending with the proof of self being required at polling places, to rent a house, buy a gun, open a bank account, acquire credit, board a plane or even attend a sporting event or log on the internet. Think of it as a government version of Foursquare, with Big Brother cataloging every check-in.
But you know what I love about this article? The comments section.
Wired tends to draw the more intelligent crowd and you can see the posters handing a commenter his ass about voter ID laws being bad.