Do Not Walk, California—Run from EDLs

[Feuer Frei!]

I know Ducimus will get a kick out of this. Californ-i-a in the news again.

As early as next week, the California State Senate could vote on S.B. 397, a hitherto little-noticed bill that approves “enhanced drivers’ licenses” in California. The bill’s ostensible purpose is to bring California’s licenses up to the standards set by the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI), which mandated the use of a passport or “enhanced driver’s license” for sea and land crossings in 2008 within continental North America and the Caribbean. (Air travel still requires the use of a passport.) WHTI was and still is a paragon of costly overreaction to terrorism.

Well, that don't sound too bad does it?

Unless of course we are talking about Department of Homeland Security tracking numbers.
And, unless we are talking about radio frequency identification (RFID) chips, and their use in identity documents was considered to be a "don't go there" by the Data Privacy & Integrity Advisory Committee, albeit in 2006 (http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/p...6_rpt_RFID.pdf).


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[Ducimus]

Ihre papiere bitte.

[Oberon]

The American has dawg biscuits in his pocket.

[Aktungbby]

Actually a non-issue as I just upped my expired passport (book) and also got the 'passport card' for land travel only Mexico or Canada. The book is still required for air travel. In my work (armed) I'm often asked for ID by a nosey peace-officer and the passport card is most useful since they don't know how to 'run' it yet and you are not required to surrender it as with a driver's license. It shortens the non-consentual interview considerably! Unlike England, where a man living in his own land is not required to carry an ID, we in the colonies (sunny CA) are practically required to do so to prevent stop and frisk detainment.