California legislature agrees to upload driver's licenses to national database
Key takeaways
- Withdrawing its opposition under behind-the-scenes pressure from Gov.
- Newsom and the legislature announced last night includes guardrails intended to give an illusion of protection for license and ID data.
- There s no time before the hearing on the budget compromise scheduled for Monday morning in the Senate Budget Committee for legislators to assess whether those guardrails will be effective.
Withdrawing its opposition under behind-the-scenes pressure from Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawless threats from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the California legislature has agreed to fund and revise state law to authorize the upload of information about all driver s licenses and ID cards issued by the state to the private SPEXS national ID database operated by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA).
The budget compromise between Gov. Newsom and the legislature announced last night includes guardrails intended to give an illusion of protection for license and ID data.
There s no time before the hearing on the budget compromise scheduled for Monday morning in the Senate Budget Committee for legislators to assess whether those guardrails will be effective. But to anyone aware of the real threat, it s apparent that they are a sham.