-Real ID will make it easier for hackers and terrorists to steal our identities, and for governments and corporations to discriminate against us.
-the American government is effectively creating an “internal passport” of the sort that oppressive regimes (including North Korea) use to limit their people’s freedom of movement
-Real ID will abet the federal government’s already out-of-control discrimination against immigrants and their families.
-Real IDs have been called “hacker bait,” since they would give criminals and others another supposedly trusted identification to penetrate. *your neighbor who can’t find her certified birth certificate can’t fly Southwest to Phoenix to watch spring training baseball.
It’s apparently a bit more complicated for a lot of women since they have to show all the supporting documentation for name changes. For instance, my mother is divorced and remarried, so she had to bring a birth certificate and two marriage licenses (plus name change applications) as supporting documentation showing progression of her last name from birth until present day.