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Driver's Licenses to Become National ID Cards

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the mission-creep dept.

XorNand writes: "Time is reporting that the Dept of Transportation, acting on instructions from Congress, is in the process of linking together states' drivers' license databases. They figure that it'll be cheaper and easier to slip under the radar of civil libertarians and privacy watchdogs. Wonder if Larry is a bit peeved that he's not getting his cut?"

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  1. Excellent! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    So I just need to stop driving to become a nonperson! Well worth it, really.

  2. Let me guess... by Nightpaw · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you don't drive, you're a terrorist, right?

    1. Re:Let me guess... by telstar · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well, you're certainly not a soccer mom. When will somebody get them off the road?

  3. so now we'll be nationally known by motherfuckin_spork · · Score: 2, Funny
    by those god-awful pictures they take of us.

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    Nope, not me, I must be someone else...
  4. Bush won't let this happen by 8string · · Score: 4, Funny

    If he does, his daughters fake ids won't work anymore.

    :)

  5. Re:Get a DUI and vanish! by fobbman · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just because YOU don't have your driver's license doesn't mean that They don't have you still loaded up in their database with your picture and all your information. You aren't getting away THAT easy.

    If you REALLY want to disappear without a trace get yourself a sitcom on the WB network. Both you and your career will not be heard from again.

  6. Re:not quite by tswinzig · · Score: 5, Funny

    The debt collectors have had them for years, as an aquantence painfully made aware a friend of mine who defaulted on a pap smear.

    Was the repo-man friendly, at least?

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    "And like that ... he's gone."