Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform

[Dori]

Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform

"The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system.
 
Buried in the more than 800 pages of the bipartisan legislation (.pdf)  is language mandating the creation of the innocuously-named “photo tool,” a massive federal database administered by the Department of Homeland Security and containing names, ages, Social Security numbers and photographs of everyone in the country with a driver’s license or other state-issued photo ID.
 
Employers would be obliged to look up every new hire in the database to verify that they match their photo."

[thundley4]

An easy poison pill for that bill would be an amendment to require that same ID for voting.