I agree I hate this. I constantly think of the book "1984" or "The Bible." They talk about everyone having ID'S and constant surveillance by big brother. But you are already an open book. People can hack into anything including the DOD, Social Security, Credit Bureaus, VA, Credit Card companies and yes even Homeland Security has even been hacked. You can go on state court sites and change them to make someone a felon or change a school grade. My own brother took out credit cards in my name because when we got SS numbers we all got them at the same time. Our numbers are only a couple digits off. I just don't understand why if this is such an important ID why it's not good enough for a pass port through North America. After all it's supposed to be super duper great and important right!!! Something for our federal legislators to think about after all our state is flipping the bill. Might as well get the biggest bang for our buck.