In February, the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) began lobbying Congress for $100 million plus federal legislation for a plan to nationalize and standardize the state-issued driver’s license and link up databases across the country. In other words, to create a national ID card. According to the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), which has published a detailed analysis of the plan, “Privacy and security interests are best protected by documents serving limited purposes and by relying on multiple and de-centralized systems of identification where there is a genuine need to establish identity.”
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