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OCR: DATABASES 661 The Real ID Act contains provisions that require applied to a dossier-like national ID database has states to store and share ID data including name, ramifications even fo law abiding citizens As an edi- birth date, gender, ID number, address, digitized torial in Scientific American points out, "Suppose that photo, and biometric data such as a digitized finger- there are ,000 terrorists in the U.S. and that the print o retinal scan Barry Steinhardt director of the data-mining process has an amazing 99 percent suc- American Civil Liberties Union's technology and lib- cess rate Then 10 of the terrorists will probably still erty program, explains, "t's going to result in every- slip through -and 2.8 million innocent people will one from the 7-Eleven store to the bank and airline ...