No secret identities. (National).Your driver's license Noun 1. driver's license - a license authorizing the bearer to drive a motor vehicle driver's licence, driving licence, driving license license, permit, licence - a legal document giving official permission to do something could one day serve as a national ID card. Among new ideas "New Ideas" is the debut single by Scottish New Wave/Indie Rock act The Dykeenies. It was first released as a Double A-side with "Will It Happen Tonight?" on July 17, 2006. The band also recorded a video for the track. to hinder terrorists, several states are considering modifying licenses to make them more uniform and harder to get. The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) is a non-governmental, voluntary, tax-exempt, nonprofit educational association. AAMVA is a private corporation which strives to develop model programs in motor vehicle administration, police traffic services and has proposed adding bar codes and biometrics--identifying individuals based on unique characteristics like fingerprints Impressions or reproductions of the distinctive pattern of lines and grooves on the skin of human fingertips. Fingerprints are reproduced by pressing a person's fingertips into ink and then onto a piece of paper. . Databases would allow states to share information with the Immigration and Naturalization Service Noun 1. Immigration and Naturalization Service - an agency in the Department of Justice that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to the United States INS and law-enforcement agencies. The changes which would take several years, would require federal and state approval. Critics say that privacy is a real concern and that the proposed changes would give state motor-vehicle officials powers they were never meant to have. The state administrators say the plan is a low-cost, logical alternative to creating a whole new national ID system. More than 90 percent of American adults carry a driver's license, which now comes in about 200 formats. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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