If you aren't guilty

[foraker]

 

you have nothing to worry about, right?

 

Nah, we aren't becoming a police state. Go about your business

 

[Stonehead]

We already have an identification document--it's called the passport.

 

Incidentally, the purpose of a driver's license is to allow one to supply documentation of meeting the minimum legal requirements to drive a motorized vehicle on public roadways. It's disconcerting to see the morphing of documents originally intended for a specific purpose being changed to become identification tools. The Social Security number (an unique identifier) was certainly not intended for use in broader applications of identification beyond the social welfare program.

 

I'm just throwing this out, but I blame the corporations behind credit lending and consumer database compilation. I suggest that the industry would rather that we use driver’s licenses and SSN cards as identification due to the fact that these documents are rather ubiquitous as compared to passports.

 

Here’s an interesting article to read by a security consultant named Bruce Schneier.

(Schneier on Security). It’s a really worthwhile article if you have the time.