No secret identities.

• Author: Lee, Jennifer
• Position: National - Attack on America, 2001; aftermath - Brief Article

Your driver's license could one day serve as a national ID card. Among new ideas 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 has proposed adding bar codes and biometrics--identifying individuals based on unique characteristics like fingerprints. Databases would allow states to share information with the Immigration and Naturalization Service and law-enforcement agencies. The changes which would take several years, would require federal and state approval.

Critics say that...