The push to make people show ID to access the internet assumes those documents will stay secure. A database of 153 million license scans shows how reckless that assumption is. If you ever needed more proof that governments pressuring companies to
collect ID data from customers or users is a bad idea, you only have to look at what happened this week. A dark-web service advertised on August 31 has been offering over 153 million scans of driver's licenses, more than 10 million other identity cards,
over 3 million travel documents and/or international IDs, and at least 579,000 medical cards. Campaign group Reclaim the Net did some research as to the likely US source of the data breach. See
article from reclaimthenet.org Reclaim the Net further comments: This is the system
politicians are selling: showing your papers at every move you make. Next, they want you to show ID to speak online or access the speech of others, all under the name of child safety. It is nothing but a surveillance dragnet that
can only end in disaster.
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