CDT Joins Push to Thwart Funding for Real ID Act
CDT Joins Push to Thwart Funding for Real ID Act:
CDT has signed onto a letter with 75 other privacy and civil liberties groups urging Congress to cut funding for the Real ID Act from the upcoming 2008 appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security. The Real ID Act, which requires national standards for driver's licenses, and may result in the creation of a massive system of identifying information on most American adults, lacks privacy and security protections. DHS has failed to issue final regulations for implementing the Act. CDT has urged Congress to rectify the privacy and security holes in the Real ID plan before funding its implementation. CDT and the other signatories are asking Congress to reallocate the $50 million REAL ID funding in the DHS bill to other national priorities.