Bye Bye Privacy - DHS Crafts Final Regulations for Real ID Act
Posted on January 11, 2008
Filed Under War on Terror
 In another blow to privacy, those Americans aged 44 will fall under the Department of Homeland Securities Real ID Act, mandating more stringent drivers licenses, another post 9/11 blow to civil liberties.  The regulations, years in the making, are designed to make it more difficult for terrorists and illegal immigrants to obtain government-issued identification.  The act faces stiff opposition from civil liberties groups who see this as a national id system and fear that the data sharing among government agencies enabled by the act will make it easy for citizens personal data to be pilfered and thus abused. So much of this makes me uncomfortable, but my main question is why are those born after 1964 a greater threat than those born before?  Why the grandfather clause?  It’s not like they are raising the drinking age.  As we see another one of our freedoms evaporate it matters not that there hasn’t been another attack on our soil; our foes are winning.Â
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