It wouldn’t be a national ID card — not really. The Department of Transportation, acting on instructions from Congress, has begun work with states to develop electronically smarter drivers’ licenses ...

Whether or not your driver’s license or state identification card has one small feature on it could determine whether you’ll ...

I don't have a REAL ID–compliant driver's license and don't plan to get one. I figure if the federal government wants to implement internal passports in the U.S., which after 20 years of political and ...

After representative John Dingell was asked to drop his pants at Washington’s National Airport last week, some people felt safer. Others, like me, decided that we’d lost our collective minds. A near ...

When Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison proposed the creation of a national ID card program and offered to donate the database software to support it, he elicited reactions ranging from disdain to ...

Jay Stanley and Barry Steinhardt are privacy public education coordinator and associate director, respectively, of the American Civil Liberties Union in New York and have allowed this piece to be ...