In May 2006, an Executive Order of the President created the Identity Theft Task Force. The Task Force includes members of several Federal agencies and departments. In September 2006, the Task Force released a number of recommendations ahead of the May 2007 document “Combatting ID Theft: Strategic Plan” in order to help agencies get a head start on the growing problem of identity [...]
Missouri state lawmakers overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to pass House Bill 361, effectively rejecting the provisions for compliance with the 2005 REAL ID Act. If the Governor does sign the legislation, the Show Me State will have a bit of cleanup to do, including what to do with the data already collected after pilot program, and what happens to the $22M in DHS [...]
Finland will collect all their citizens’ fingerprints, store them in a central database and include them in passport ID chips. Singapore’s been doing this for several years, and the parallels and privacy implications are deeper than [...]