To comply with Real ID Act, the states must agree to link up their databases. 

Specifically, the Real ID Act says the act provide electronic access by all approved jurisdictions to information contained in the motor vehicle databases of all other states."

(included in the approved jurisdictions are several Mexican states and Canadian provinces)


Barry Steinhardt, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's technology and liberty program, says: "It's going to result in everyone, from the 7-Eleven store to the bank and airlines, demanding to see the ID card. They're going to scan it in. They're going to have all the data on it from the front of the card...It's going to be not just a national ID card but a national database."


Make no mistake, these are national ID cards and the linked databases create a national database.