FACTS ABOUT REAL ID STRAIGHT FROM OPEN GOVERNMENT SOURCES

- Minimum Document Requirements - To meet the requirements of this section, a State shall include, at a minimum, the following information and features on each driver's license and identification card issued to a person by the State:
(1) The person's full legal name.
(2) The person's date of birth.
(3) The person's gender.
(4) The person's driver's license or identification card number.
(5) A digital photograph of the person. [Biometrics]
(6) The person's address of principle residence.
(7) The person's signature.
(8) Physical security features designed to prevent tampering, counterfeiting, or duplication of the document for fraudulent purposes.
(9) A common machine-readable technology, with defined minimum data elements. [RFID microchip]
-Source: REAL ID Act, sec.202b

*“Computer and security experts around the globe have repeatedly gone on record stating that creating a single REAL ID standard will lead to even more rampant identity and asset theft.” - Source: flyer published by Rep. Sam Rohrer, District 128, Pennsylvania House of Representatives

-“Database connectivity: States would be required to provide electronic access to specific information contained in the motor vehicle database of the State to all other States.” – Source: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) draft regulations for REAL ID

*DHS can also “legally” access from this database information through the “Drivers Privacy Protection Act” (DPPA).

*“Centralizing personal data on one single REAL ID card guarantees convenient ‘one-stop shopping’ for any technologically-savvy identity thieves.” - Source: flyer published by Rep. Sam Rohrer, District 128, Pennsylvania House of Representatives

-“Requirments for identification cards: Digital Photograph: Section 202(b)(5) of the Act requires that the State-issued REAL ID license or identification card include a digital photograph of the person.” - Source: DHS draft regulations for REAL ID

*Linking databases with digital photos = facial recognition database.
*Electronic facial recognition = biometrics.

“Biometric authentication is the identification science of using physiological or behavioral characteristic of an individual (such as fingerprints, facial geometry, iris, blood vessel pattern in the retina, voice, signature, etc.) to attempt a confirmation of the identity for that individual ‘automatically’ with a high degree of certainty.” – Source: American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) press release “Current and Ongoing Efforts – Biometrics”

“Information sharing is appropriate around the world, and DHS plans to create a ‘Global Security Envelope’ of internationally shared biometric data that would permanently link individuals with biometric ID, personal information held by governments and corporations.” –Source: Robert Mocny, DHS

-“Comments: DHS invites comments on how States would or could incorporate a [Radio Frequency Identity Chips] RFID-enabled vicinity chip technology in addition to the REAL ID barcode requirement.” - Source: DHS draft regulations for REAL ID

“[The REAL ID Act] could include Radio Frequency Identity Chips (RFID) which already been incorporated into our United States Passports. These chips would allow a citizen to be tracked from a distance without his, or her, knowledge.” - Source: flyer published by Rep. Sam Rohrer, District 128, Pennsylvania House of Representatives

-‘Official purpose’ of REAL ID:
“Definition of ‘official purpose’: Section 201(3) of the Act provides that the term ‘official purpose’ includes but is not limited to accessing Federal facilities, boarding Federally-regulated commercial aircraft, entering nuclear power plants, and other purposes that the Secretary [of Homeland Security] shall determine.’
DHS, under the discretionary authority granted to the Secretary of Homeland Security under the Act, may expand this definition in the future.” - Source: DHS draft regulations for REAL ID

-Estimated cost to states: $14.6 billion
-Estimated cost to individuals: Nearly $8 billion
- Source: DHS draft regulations for REAL ID

*DHS estimated total cost to the American taxpayer = $23.1 billion

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