It’s no surprise that Indiana is one of four Republican-led states willing to help the federal government dig into driver’s license records. But Hoosiers should be appalled that state leaders surrendered their privacy to satisfy Washington’s demands.
A federal court approved a settlement committing Indiana — along with Florida, Iowa and Ohio — to support the Department of Homeland Security’s plan to tap into driver’s license data through Nlets, the nationwide law enforcement network ordinarily used to verify an out-of-state driver. DHS now wants to fuse that access with its expanded SAVE (Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements) program, a newly built system for bulk screening that can sweep through millions of voter records at once.
For most people, Nlets is an obscure acronym fo

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