California authorizes its DMV to join a national ID database

I understand there’s a balance between anonymity and privacy and ensuring transactions are real. For example when you buy a house you’re going to get on a public registry and titles and documents are going to identify you, and it’s an acceptable tradeoff to prevent fraud as long as no one can actually walk down to Records and start manipulating deeds.

This…this I don’t understand. If someone is driving with a fake drivers license, yeah, scary but the danger is limited and policies already have uninsured driver protection. This seems like the feds, who have not shown themselves as trustworthy, let alone their active involvement in fraud, demanding some foot in the door they’ll use later.