Personal Identification: Modern Development and Security Implications

This book explains how Personal Identification-and Real ID-became part of the American fabric along with their past century’s historical ID development.

Dr. David J. Haas received his BA in Physics and PhD in Biophysics at the State University of NY at Buffalo. For the next five years, he performed basic research in protein crystallography at several institutions in Europe and the United States. This basic research led to liquid nitrogen cryo-cooling whereby macromolecular crystals have reduced radiation damage during X-ray analysis. Whereas this technique was year ahead of its time, today cryo-crystallography is used at every Synchrotron worldwide for Structural Biology. In 1970, he joined Philips Electronic Instruments in Mt Vernon NY as Principal X-ray Scientist, designing some of the first airport X-ray Scanners used worldwide during the 1970s. Conceiving the idea of a self-expiring Visitor Badge (changes color in one day to prevent reuse), David and his wife, Sandra, formed Temtec Inc. in 1981 in Suffern NY and manufactured these visitor and temporary IDs for more than 20 years under the brand name TEMPbadge. The Company was sold in 2002. Besides many scientific papers and article, David & Sandra have dozens of Patents to their credit. The first edition of his book ＂Personal Identification - Its Modern Development and Security Implications＂ was published in 2009 by ASIS Intl. and has been updated substantially with this second edition.

Brian Zimmer has been President of the Coalition for a Secure Driver’s License (CSDL) since July, 2007, and Keeping Identities Safe since 2012. He has published numerous articles, been cited in newspapers, and has spoken to social and political organizations across the United States as an expert on driver’s license security. He has testified before legislative bodies in more than a dozen States regarding the REAL ID Act and before the U.S. Senate on border security. In 1995, Mr. Zimmer was recruited from the Department of Interior Office of the Secretary to the U.S. House of Representatives’ Offices of Procurement. As the Director of Information Technology Procurement, he led the installation of modern IT infrastructure at the House buildings, including implementation of a new Financial System and integrated Procurement System. From 2001 through 2006, Brian Zimmer served as Senior Policy Advisor & Investigator for the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives. While with the House of Representatives, Brian Zimmer helped to draft numerous federal laws. Laws for which his work received White House recognition include: Real ID Act of 2005, Secure Fence Act of 2006, Intelligence Reform Act of 2004, Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act of 2004, and the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002.