[Infowarrior] - Idaho rejects REAL ID

[Richard Forno]

(c.o IP)

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From: David Farber <dave at farber.net>

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From: "Stanley, Jay" <JStanley at dcaclu.org>
Date: March 8, 2007 3:30:35 PM EST
To: dave at farber.net
Subject: Real ID update

Dave,

Idaho opted out of Real ID today, becoming the second state to say
"no thanks," along with Maine.  And there are a lot of other states
moving in the same direction (we have a map that tracks them online
at http://www.realnightmare.org/news/105/).

This is important because the whole point of Real ID is to have a
uniform national identity document, and when even a few states reject
it, the whole concept falls apart.

When DHS issued its regulations last week it made a lot of noise
about granting an extension for compliance with Real ID.  But
apparently that hasn't slowed down the rebellion in the states. We've
actually seen a lot of action in the states in just the last week.

Also we issued an ACLU Real ID "Scorecard" this morning summarizing
our analysis of the new regulations.  We listed every issue with Real
ID that we could find and systematically looked at how many of those
problems have been addressed by the regs.  The answer: very few (9%
to be exact).

The Scorecard is also on our Real ID site at www.realnightmare.org

- Jay


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Jay Stanley
Public Education Director, Technology and Liberty Project
ACLU
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