You Already Have Some Form Of Digital ID, Whether You Know It Or Not

The bum’s rush is on to get all travelers enrolled into RealID. On Sunday, Feb. 1, any air traveler without a RealID driver’s license will be fined $45 and be required to submit to biometric fleecing, all of which will go directly into the master DHS database. RealID is hooked to each state’s DMV data. On average, over 50 percent of Americans travel at least once a year. Everybody else is off the hook, right? Wrong! Your DMV data is already fused with the national database.
Why use DMV records in the first place? Because you have to stand in front of a state official to have a standardized photo of your face and provide other documentation to prove who you are, like a copy of your birth certificate. This is only the beginning, however: it is not foolproof! The ultimate it to tag you with a falsifiable “legal identity”.
“Legal identity” is the anchor record that lets states and their corporate partners reliably link otherwise separate traces (travel, communications, biometrics, …