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REAL-ID is effectively a national ID card. Organizations like EFF and ACLU have been opposed to REAL-ID on privacy and civil liberties grounds since it was pas
by jdp23 10y ago
REAL-ID is effectively a national ID card. Organizations like EFF and ACLU have been opposed to REAL-ID on privacy and civil liberties grounds since it was passed in 2005. Libertarian groups like Cato also highlight that it's a huge unfunded mandate on the states. Overall, resistance to REAL-ID has been one of the most effective multipartisan civil liberties efforts - a lot to learn from it.
Here's EFF's page: https://www.eff.org/issues/real-id https://www.eff.org/issues/real-id
And Cato's most recent commentary, by Jim Harper: http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/real-id-decisions http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/real-id-decision...
- akytt 10y agoSo basically this movement is saying that it is OK to have a massive identity theft problem, insecure banking and inefficient government services if that means no national id card? Even though most big public and private organisations have 95+% accurate full profiles of all the citizens? Data theft and privacy violation are rampant because data is duplicated. Data is duplicated because it can't be shared. Data can't be shared because movements like this opposing it because privacy issues are rampant. Bump.