Stewart Baker, the department’s assistant secretary for policy, said a forthcoming system of uniform national identification cards will not put more personal information into the hands of motor vehicle administrators or result in a massive centralized database that’s more susceptible to hackers.
In fact, Baker said, the controversial law will improve Americans’ privacy. “You can never foresee the future, but every indication is that Real ID is actually going to make it less easy for people to engage in identity theft,” Baker told the Homeland Security Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee at its quarterly public meeting here.
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