The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) is renewing their push for a de facto national ID card. They can call it anything they want – but its a frigging national ID card they’re promoting. In the past, I’ve opposed this plan as a member of the Coalition for Constitutional Liberties along with a broad left-right coalition of organizations led primarily by the ACLU and Free Congress Foundation. It looks like this is getting hot again. My opposition to this Soviet-style form of public control remains just as solid. In the end, we are trading liberty for security – make that a false sense of security. After we’ve relinquished our privacy and shredded the Bill of Rights, what exactly will we be protecting ourselves from? Some relevant links are below:
- Anti-National ID Card Letter – June 27, 2002
- Anti-National ID Card Letter – February 11, 2002
- ACLU – Five Reason Not To Adopt A National ID Card
- EPIC – ID Cards Archive
- Privacy International – National ID Cards
- CPSR – National ID Cards FAQ
- Electronic Frontier Foundation – National ID: A Solution in Search of a Problem
Link courtesy of Coalition for Constitutional Liberties Newsletter.