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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