Another Anti-Terrorism Measure or Big Brother Coming Closer to Reality??

This article on my favorite online newspaper this morning as I woke up....

It seems that "Real I.D." is here and is law and it will affect everyone personally the next time they go to renew their drivers liscence.

This new identification card has lots more to it than this story tells about.
With this I.D. there is rumor that the card itself will contain a whole slew of information regarding your personal history...so much information that it is to be akin to "your entire life" on a card.

As this guy (link to article below) so elequently puts it, I guess most of that information is already available:
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0802/0802files.htm

So alot of information is already out there but I truly feel this card is a bit unnessicary. But according to a bunch of stories I have read in the past few years, it will be almost impossible to live a day to day life (traveling, banking ect) without one of these cards...

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=607401
Click on link- above- for full story

Welcome to 1984....a few years late...