U.S.-China Surveillance

Good opinion piece be Leslie Harris on the Real ID program….

Most disappointing, the hard decisions on how to implement Real ID — including how to protect privacy — have been left to the states. Simply put, there are no privacy rules. States are simply encouraged to follow a set of “best practices” for protecting privacy. But there are no consequences if states choose not to do so and thus no guarantees that the personal information collected for Real ID won’t be used for a variety of state and even federal uses, populating and repopulating numerous government databases and easily available to businesses and other interests.