{"id":588,"date":"2004-10-06T00:00:45","date_gmt":"2004-10-06T00:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=588"},"modified":"2004-10-06T00:00:45","modified_gmt":"2004-10-06T00:00:45","slug":"national_id_car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=588","title":{"rendered":"National ID Card?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/National+IDs+for+everybody\/2010-1028_3-5395386.html?tag=macintouch\">Declan McCullagh<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Rep. David Dreier wants to force all Americans to carry a national ID card around with them. The California Republican is not about to describe his new bill in those terms, but that&#8217;s the reality.<br \/>\nDreier&#8217;s legislation would prohibit employers from hiring people unless the job applicants first obtain new federal ID cards with their photograph, Social Security number and an &#8220;encrypted electronic strip&#8221; with additional information. Any employer who fails to comply faces hefty fines and prison terms of up to five years.<br \/>\nDreier is smart enough to realize that these federal IDs would be immediately forged, so he takes the next step of linking them to an employment eligibility database that&#8217;s queried by card readers whenever the ID is swiped. The employment database is required to include &#8220;all such data maintained by the Department of Homeland Security,&#8221; combined with what the Social Security Administration has on file.  <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Declan McCullagh: Rep. David Dreier wants to force all Americans to carry a national ID card around with them. The California Republican is not about to describe his new bill in those terms, but that&#8217;s the reality. Dreier&#8217;s legislation would prohibit employers from hiring people unless the job applicants first obtain new federal ID cards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}