“The result, the report says, is a nationwide system in which ‘even a small-town sheriff in rural Georgia or Vermont could have access to a database of hundreds of millions of Americans’ images.’ Between that and E-Verify, that sheriff could easily tie a face to a Social Security account—a National I.D. measure that voters have vociferously opposed, and that was rejected when it was proposed in the 1970s. This de facto National I.D. becomes even more expansive when combined with a number of new technologies that states are starting to roll out. Harper discusses the possible combinations of REAL ID and E-Verify with the facial and license plate recognition technologies many states are already using, either in experimental or full-fledged forms.”
Read more: https://reason.com/blog/2018/01/30/national-id-by-any-other-name-still-stin