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On May 8, the International Biometrics Industry Association (IBIA) submitted comments in response to the Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which provide guidelines to Departments of Motor Vehicles on the creation of secure credentials that are required for access to Federal facilities and for boarding aircraft as mandated by the REAL ID Act.

RFID is a brilliant idea for business -- but a lousy one for people. Using the wireless chips the wrong way will just slow down the growth of the market, argues Business 2.0's Chris Taylor.

(Business 2.0 Magazine) -- As a business, you want to keep track of your inventory. But as an individual, you don't want anyone keeping track of you.

Opposition is growing to a forthcoming digital ID card for American citizens, but it may be too late to make sweeping changes to the controversial identification requirements.

During a congressional hearing on Tuesday, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) savaged the Real ID Act as an unwarranted intrusion into Americans' personal lives that a Republican-controlled Senate enacted two years ago without a single hearing or debate.

The Real ID Act was snuck through congress in 2005 as part of a Tsunami Relief and Troop support bill. The Act which is set to go into action next year would require every American Citizen to carry around a national ID card and submit their personal information into a national law enforcement database.

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Special Thanks to the Privacy Coalition for the following information.

• A broad coalition of organizations across the United States is urging the public to submit comments rejecting the illegal national identification system created under the Department of Homeland Security's REAL ID program.

Stasi, the infamous East German secret police service that terrorized that country's citizens for decades until the Berlin Wall fell in the late 1980s, reportedly collected and maintained every conceivable type of intelligence on subjects and potential targets.

Discovered in its vaults following the reunification of Germany, for example, were sealed vials supposedly containing samples of scents that could be used at some point to identify particular people.