Things To Come:

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

LEO HOHMANN

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, financial transactions) back to one canonical subject. The surveillance state, therefore, treats legal identity not merely as a right but as a control interface: once a person is bound to a legally recognized, digitized identity, that identifier becomes the switch through which access, permissions, sanctions, scoring, and monitoring can be automated.

The keyword is “automated.” This is why biometric information is being collected on newborn infants, including DNA, when they are helpless and cannot understand consent. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.

The only missing component for a full-on digitalized control grid is tokenized digital/programmable “money” but Trump administration is working on that too.

As of February 1, the Trump administration’s crackdown on non-compliant American citizens flying without a federal government-approved REAL ID will result in them being charged an extra fee of $45 and being forced to hand over their biometric data.

Beginning February 1, travelers who arrive at a checkpoint without compliant identification will have the option of paying a $45 fee and undergoing an additional “modernized” verification process, according to the Transportation Security Administration.

The website Biometric Update reports that Acting TSA Director Ha Nguyen McNeill provided the following information:

“Travelers who do not present an acceptable form of ID at TSA checkpoints and still want to fly, have the option of paying a $45 fee and undergoing the TSA ConfirmID process,” McNeill said.

TSA further explains in a press release on its website:

“All airline travelers who use TSA ConfirmID will be subject to additional ID verification, screening measures and potential delays. Travelers who appear at the TSA checkpoint without a REAL ID or other acceptable form of ID and have not already paid the TSA ConfirmID fee will be subject to additional delays which may result in a missed flight.”

Oh, and by the way, all of your personal data will be shared with ICE and likely any other government agencies that ask for it.

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