The Feds continue to expand their database of fingerprints - required for employment
When do we get RFID chips
implanted?
Last week, a measure creating a federal fingerprint registry totally unrelated
to national security passed a U.S. Senate committee almost without notice. The
legislation would require thousands of individuals working even tangentially in
the mortgage and real estate industries — and not suspected of anything
— to send their prints to the feds. The database and fingerprint mandates
were tucked into housing and foreclosure assistance bills that on Tuesday passed
the Senate Banking Committee by a vote of
19-2.
The measure the committee passed states that “an individual may not engage in the business of a loan originator without first … obtaining a unique identifier.” To obtain this “identifier,” an individual is required to “furnish” to the newly created Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry “information concerning the applicant’s identity, including fingerprints for submission” to the FBI and other government agencies…
The amendment adopted the fingerprint provisions in a section called the “S.A.F.E. Mortgage Licensing Act.” The fingerprints will be part of what the amendment calls “a comprehensive licensing and supervisory database.”
So, uh, what gets included next? Voter ID? School lunch program?
Thanks, Marc
The measure the committee passed states that “an individual may not engage in the business of a loan originator without first … obtaining a unique identifier.” To obtain this “identifier,” an individual is required to “furnish” to the newly created Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry “information concerning the applicant’s identity, including fingerprints for submission” to the FBI and other government agencies…
The amendment adopted the fingerprint provisions in a section called the “S.A.F.E. Mortgage Licensing Act.” The fingerprints will be part of what the amendment calls “a comprehensive licensing and supervisory database.”
So, uh, what gets included next? Voter ID? School lunch program?
Thanks, Marc
Posted: Sun - May 25, 2008 at 01:01 PM