{"id":1347,"date":"2008-02-05T02:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2008-02-05T02:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T19:50:00","slug":"why-real-id-is-a-flawed-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/watching\/why-real-id-is-a-flawed-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Real ID is a flawed law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The government claims that driver&#8217;s license &#8220;reform&#8221; will help combat illegal immigration and generally protect national security, but it fails to acknowledge that the Real ID Act seriously threatens privacy and civil liberties on a national scale.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been nearly three years since Congress passed the act, and the Department of Homeland Security just published final regulations to implement the law that will change the way state driver&#8217;s licenses are issued.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/Why-Real-ID-is-a-flawed-idea\/2010-1028_3-6228491.html?tag=txt.alert.hed\">Read here<\/a> for the rest of the story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government claims that driver&#8217;s license &#8220;reform&#8221; will help combat illegal immigration and generally protect national security, but it fails to acknowledge that the Real ID Act seriously threatens privacy and civil liberties on a national scale. It&#8217;s been nearly three years since Congress passed the act, and the Department of Homeland Security just published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rfid","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}