Feds Start Small on Smart IDs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday October 21, 2006 @12:12PM from the small-start-leads-to-big-ending dept.

jcatcw writes "Some government employees will be getting smart ID cards beginning this week. The unfunded mandate to have all employees and contractors use Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards is part of Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12. The U.S. General Services Administration is providing enrollment centers that can verify the identities of employees, fingerprint and photograph the workers, and issue PIV cards to them. The deadline for getting cards to all employees and contractors is the end of September 2008."

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Re:So what? by rts008 · 2006-10-21 12:29 · Score: 5, Insightful

Step by step is how it happens- so subtle you don't even realise until it's too late.

It's starting to get late, heading towards too late soon.

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