Show 2: January 6th, 2010: Special Guests Mark Lerner (Stop Real ID) and Matt Simpson (ACLU TX)

January 4, 2009

Podcast: link soon

Hour 1: Talking philosophy, taking calls.

Hour 2:  Special Guest: Mark Lerner (notes below)

Hour 3: Special Guest: Matt Simpson Policy Director ACLU TX (see notes below)

Special Guest: Mark Lerner

on the web: http://www.stoprealidcoalition.com/
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Notes by cat:

Real ID – suggestion of the 9/11 commission report

Real ID is based on international information and photo standards set by ICAO (a UN agency) and AAMVA (quoted as a “hub and backbone of the Real ID Act” by DHS

DMV – drivers applications go through AAMVAs telecommunications department (fusion centers!)

Stewart Baker – DHS – google quotes on info sharing from 2006

Enhanced drivers licenses can be used to cross the border in lou of a passport

Real ID text does not mention biometrics – it is in the footnotes that it states “standard for photos will comply with ACIO document ______”

UCTV surveillance cameras – identifying folks in public in real time- 2001 superbowl attendees faces scanned and compared with law enforcement databases.

Federal government is using approximately 200 datamining programs being used by federal government

26 states have said “no” to Real ID to the federal government through state level resolutions or legislation

PASS ID – not a reasonable replacement to Real ID – Just as bad as Real ID – putting your information into a single global biometric system.

Photo Identification Security Act (by Marshal Blackburn) – will require Real ID to go into fed building or make a financial transaction

Information cannot be deleted from fusion center databases

Cali department of justice report called “Justice 2015″
- goal to use handheld biometric devices in public

Hour 3: Special Guest: Matt Simpson Policy Strategists ACLU TX

- describing their work fighting fusion centers
- 7 fusion centers in TX
- working at city and state level
- Colin County Fusion Center:  Set up by council of governments, lack of clear hierarchy / accountability – issued reports stating those practicing Islam were using hip hop and fashion to infiltrate our culture.
- Dallas PD fusion center, all employees are Dallas PD other than one DPS employee – they all report to the chief.
- No serious accountability to the people.
- Public/Private partnerships
- submitting open records request

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