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Lawmakers are proposing a national identification card — what they’re calling “high-tech, fraud-proof Social Security cards” — that would be required for all employees in the United States.
The proposal by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York) and Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-South Carolina) comes as the states are grappling to produce another national identification card at the behest of the Department of Homeland Security. Virtually none of the states are in compliance with this Real ID program — adopted in 2005 — requiring state motor vehicle bureaus to obtain and internally scan and store personal information like Social Security cards and birth certificates for a national database.
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National identification cards, long feared by privacy advocates, may soon become mandatory for American workers. In an bipartisan effort to curb the hiring of illegal immigrants, Sens. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have proposed legislation that, if passed, will require all working Americans to carry biometric ID cards containing fingerprint records and other personal information.Certain opposition political parties have a plan to rob the National Identity Cards belonging to voters by threatening them in certain areas which are politically advantageous for the UPFA candidate at the forthcoming Presidential Election, said Education Minister Susil Premajayantha addressing a meeting organized by Tharuna Aruna III Independent Graduates Union held in Colombo.
The Minister said this matter had been brought to the notice of the Elections Commissioner.
There is a certain political party notorious for this robbery behind the scene. The people are still aware of those who robbed their identity cards during the 1988-89 period. Therefore it is the duty of everybody to protect the voting rights of the people, the Minister said.
It was President Mahinda Rajapaksa who cleared the way for Ranil Wickremesinghe to go around the country despite the fact that the latter gave part of the country to the LTTE through the Ceasefire Agreement of 2002. Today the JVP which started the violence in 1971 and 1988/89 has joined forces with the UNP which, in turn, put 60,000 youth on tyre pyres. Both Ranil and Somawansa are the founders of the then terror period and are now
The issue of Unique Identification Number to the people of Orissa will start from February 2011. All the citizens of the state are expected to get this unique ID in next 3-4 years, said Nandan Nilekani, chairman, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIAI) here today.
Talking to media after a high level meeting with the state government officials, he said, this will be a unique initiative which will use methods like finger print and retina scan for identification of citizens to issue bio-metric ID cards. The project will go online in February 2011 and 600 million people will be issued unique ID cards over the next five and half years.
ASI is a new license or ID card marked with a gold star indicating it meets federal identification standards for boarding commercial aircraft and entering federal buildings where identification is required, and the DMV will also begin issuing those licenses and/or ID cards on Feb. 1 in Reno, and eventually statewide
Because the Department has met the first 18 bench marks of the federal Real ID Act, the licenses and ID cards Nevadans currently possess will be good for federal purposes for several years.
As a result, the Department recommends that motorists wait until their normal renewal date in the years ahead before applying for an ASI card.
The documents required to prove identity for an ASI card are the same documents Nevada already requires for first-time licensees and new residents. The difference is that DMV will be accepting only those documents it can electronically verify, and the only additional information required for an ASI card is utility bills or phone bills to prove residency.ID WORLD Abu Dhabi 2010 - the annual EMEA summit, will run over two days in May. A focused conference program of plenary sessions, breakout seminars and workshops, as well as exclusive networking initiatives, will ensure that delegates and exhibitors get maximum value from their participation.
The leading players in security, automatic identification, wireless and mobility will convene to communicate, share and exhibit their knowledge, experience and innovations at ID WORLD Abu Dhabi. This guarantee of maximum exposure to a highly targeted audience will help further shape the future of global and regional security and tracking infrastructures.