[privacy] Social Security Card to be National ID?

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via Homeland Stupidity.

[snip]

Two proposals being floated around Capitol Hill call for the Social
Security card to be updated with biometric information and for U.S.
employers to be required to verify it with the Department of Homeland
Security when hiring.

Scared yet? You should be. While everyone was off fighting the REAL ID
battle, national identification proponents were sneaking in the back door,
arguing that the Social Security card should be updated with the latest
technology to prevent illegal immigrants from working.

Under the so-called Bonner Plan, citizens and resident aliens alike would
have to obtain a new Social Security card containing their photograph, a
barcode or magnetic stripe containing an encrypted signature verifiable
through card readers provided by the Department of Homeland Security, and
would have to present this card in order to obtain work. The plan provides
that employers who fail to verify the card face fines, prison time, and
would be billed for the cost of deporting any illegal aliens they may have
hired.

Of course, they’re still claiming that the card wouldn’t be a national
ID card. But if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it certainly
isn’t a sheep.

[snip]

More:
http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/05/16/social-security-card-to-be-natio
nal-id/

- - ferg

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