By Amy Doolittle - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Jul 18, 2007 19:28:04 EDT
A House committee passed legislation Wednesday that would render the Pentagon’s new ID cards illegal.
The Next Generation Common Access Card, developed to increase military ID card security and effectiveness, is currently given to service members and government employees only as old ID cards expire. Among other security improvements, the new CAC system removes the holder’s Social Security number from the card’s face and instead includes it in the magnetic strip.
But the “Social Security Number Privacy and Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007,” passed unanimously by the House Ways and Means committee, would prohibit the government from not only displaying Social Security numbers on any ID cards, but also embedding the numbers in card magnetic strips or electronic chips.
More at http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/07/military_cac_socialsecurity_070718w/
