Less than half of Americans have a passport. [1] And it has nothing to do with photo ID, it's the fact that they forced the states to adopt REAL ID under the pr

Less than half of Americans have a passport. [1] And it has nothing to do with photo ID, it's the fact that they forced the states to adopt REAL ID under the pretenses that they would make photo IDs more reliable and difficult to fake (back in 2005), and now they're using the photos they collected to create a facial recognition system. This needs to be voted on by a full session of Congress and debated in the public sphere, not quietly rolled out at a few airports to normalize it. [1] https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/after/passport-statistics.html https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/after/p...