REAL ID: Phony Security, Real Authoritarianism

The Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced her department would in May begin enforcing the REAL ID law.

The law requires everyone applying for a driver’s license to provide social security number, proof of legal residence, and two proofs of his home address.

People who doubt that this database will be used to violate the rights of US citizens should ask what a present-day J. Edgar Hoover would do with a database containing personal and even biometric information.