>The acts of forcing people to submit more identification and then putting that personal information in databases actually introduces new risks.

That is all well and good, but with all the big breaches we have had it really does not matter. Your info is out there already if you ever applied for a loan due to that large credit agency breach(s). I forgot the name of the companies, but that alone was probably enough. Then tack on that the various Health Insurance breaches, Real ID is a non-issue at this point.

Now of course we have DOGE mining Social Security Data, so here we are.