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Warning: Biometric IDs Help Gov Decide Which Americans Remain Employed
The Truth Behind The News
Susanne Posel
Occupy Corporatism
May 14, 2013
The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act (IMA) championed by President Obama and being debated in the Senate is, in part, a scheme to implement a national identification system using biometric tracking devices.
Masked behind the “photo tool” mentioned in the immigration proposal is actually an encompassing national database accessible by federal agencies and overseen by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which contains information on all US citizens such as:
• Names
• Ages
• Social Security numbers
• Photographs of all individual persons
As part of a verification protocol of the IMA, the outward claim is that this measure will reduce undocumented immigrants within domestic borders. Employment would be saved from these “illegals”.
However, this cover-story thinly veils the fact that the US government would have extended their data mining capabilities while continuing to infringe of American’s civil liberties while professing to protect them.
Immediately, mainstream media countered the fact that inside the IMA a description of a biometric database is included by hoping that the American public does not read proposed legislation.
In fact, the explanation of the “photo tool” by an anonymous “Senate aide” asserts: “Biometrics typically refer to certain physiological traits that are distinctly unique to you, like your fingerprints, an iris scan, or your DNA that comes off on those small sticks that you swab on the inside of your cheek at the doctor’s office. Photographs of you do not, in and of themselves, possess these types of traits that identify you based on your own unique physiological characteristics; thus, no one can say that they are in fact biometrics.”
The same mysterious aide continues to pontificate on the “photo tool” and how it is not biometric in nature by saying: “The federal government can only access state driver’s license photos if the state and the federal government enter into an agreement to share them; if the federal government were to simply mandate individual states to just turn this information over to the federal government, that would be unconstitutional under US v. Printz.”
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) gives persons seeking to naturalized a biometric appointment wherein DNA testing must be given over as part of the data mining process.
Identification required at these meetings:
• Passport/national ID issued in country of origin
• Driver’s license
• Military photo ID
• State-issued photo ID
Cell phones and cameras are not allowed at the appointment so that the general public cannot record the session.
Fingerprints are taken as well as a complete background check corresponding with federal agencies database profiles.
Could this process become common place for all Americans – not just those seeking nationalization?
The DHS have employed Oracle to assist in their endeavor to use biometrics to fight terrorism, catalogue active duty troops and maintain national security interests. The Biometrics Identity Management Agency (BIMA) utilizes biometrics to “identify the enemy” and verify individuals to ensure secure business and governmental functions.
The National ID card by Oracle would establish “a standard and secure national identifier, we could ensure that any system that chose to use it could effectively share information with other systems that use it.”
Ellison showed off a prototype of a National ID card at the National Press club in 2001 that included a picture, fingerprint and other digital controls to ensure security. He believed that the US government “could phase in digital ID cards to replace existing Social Security cards and driver’s licenses. These new IDs should be based on a uniform standard such as credit card technology, which is harder to counterfeit than existing government IDs.”
The US Department of State Consular Consolidated Database (CCD) has more than 90 million people’s photographs data based with the continuous use of the Department of Facial Recognition Software.
The US Department of Homeland Security Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) tracks an estimated 250,000 biometric communications a day. Over 126 million fingerprints, photographs and biographical information are filed for the US government to use at their discretion.
In 2010, Senators Lindsey Graham and Chuck Schumer proposed that all Americans carry a national ID card that would correspond with their ability to remain employed domestically.
This proposal was part of the IMA being debated now. The national ID card would have an encrypted coding that would match the individual worker’s database information.
According to the proposed legislation: “The cardholder’s identity will be verified by matching the biometric identifier stored within the microprocessing chip on the card to the identifier provided by the cardholder that shall be read by the scanner used by the employer.”
With this control mechanism in place, the US government would grant Americans the right to work – infringing of Constitutional liberties and individual freedoms while deciding who is employed and who is not.
The post Warning: Biometric IDs Help Gov Decide Which Americans Remain Employed appeared first on Susanne Posel.
Source: http://www.occupycorporatism.com/warning-biometric-ids-help-gov-decide-which-americans-remain-employed/
