{"id":970,"date":"2007-11-06T16:29:31","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T21:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/11\/06\/real-id-in-its-death-throes\/"},"modified":"2007-11-06T17:55:41","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T22:55:41","slug":"real-id-in-its-death-throes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/11\/06\/real-id-in-its-death-throes\/","title":{"rendered":"REAL ID In Its Death Throes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=07\/11\/06\/1912250&amp;from=rss\">Oh thank god<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 36pt\">&#8220;The ACLU, which opposes the plan on civil liberties grounds, says that the many changes made since the Act was passed [in 2005] nearly &#8216;negate the original intent of the program.&#8217; &#8216;DHS is essentially whittling Real ID down to nothing&#8230; all in the name of denying Real ID is a failure,&#8217; said ACLU senior legislative counsel Tim Sparapani. &#8216;Real ID is in its death throes, and any signs of life are just last gasps.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I am very glad to hear this. I only hope it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> In case you were living under a rock, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/tag\/real-id\/\">here&#8217;s all my previous posts on this subject<\/a>, in case you need to bring yourself up-to-speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh thank god: &#8220;The ACLU, which opposes the plan on civil liberties grounds, says that the many changes made since the Act was passed [in 2005] nearly &#8216;negate the original intent of the program.&#8217; &#8216;DHS is essentially whittling Real ID down to nothing&#8230; all in the name of denying Real ID is a failure,&#8217; said&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/11\/06\/real-id-in-its-death-throes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">REAL ID In Its Death Throes?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[385,67,65,26,66],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics","tag-privacy","tag-real-id","tag-security","tag-slashdot","entry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-fE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":301,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/11\/24\/profile-hinky\/","url_meta":{"origin":970,"position":0},"title":"Profile: &#8216;hinky&#8217;","author":"Keith Survell","date":"November 24, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"\"The problem with computerized passenger profiling is that it simply doesn't work. 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