DHS considers private integrator to manage REAL ID
Draft regulations sent to OMB supposedly ask for a private company to take a leading role in managing nationwide implementation
Here is some interesting news. According to a privacy activist who claims to have seen supporting documentation, DHS is planning to outsource the implementation of the REAL ID Act to a private company. Bill Scannell of the Identity Project says that the department has recommended, as part of proposed regulations sent recently to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), that a private data agreggator be named to manage the “key elements” of the program. It was not clear at press time whether DHS also recommended a particular vendor. “Homeland Security is granting the right to control our identity to private industry,” Scannell wrote on the Web site UnRealID.com. “It will be Identity-Mart Inc.” DHS refused to comment. OMB has ninety days to review the darft regulations.
-read more in Michael Martinez’s National Journal’s Technology Daily report
