{"id":958,"date":"2007-03-25T09:19:18","date_gmt":"2007-03-25T02:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=958"},"modified":"2007-03-25T09:19:18","modified_gmt":"2007-03-25T02:19:18","slug":"homeland-security-dismisses-real-id-privacy-worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/homeland-security-dismisses-real-id-privacy-worries\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeland Security dismisses Real ID privacy worries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <strong>ARLINGTON, Va.&#8211;A senior U.S. Department of Homeland Security official on Wednesday said he finds privacy concerns prompted by the proposed Real ID regime puzzling.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/xabout\/structure\/biography_0135.shtm\">Stewart Baker<\/a>, the department&#8217;s assistant secretary for policy, said <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/FAQ+How+Real+ID+will+affect+you\/2100-1028_3-5697111.html\" title=\"FAQ: How Real ID will affect you -- Friday, May 6, 2005\">a forthcoming system of uniform national identification cards<\/a> will not put more personal information into the hands of motor vehicle administrators or result in a massive centralized database that&#8217;s more susceptible to hackers.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Baker said, the controversial law will improve Americans&#8217; privacy. &#8220;You can never foresee the future, but every indication is that Real ID is actually going to make it less easy for people to engage in identity theft,&#8221; Baker told the Homeland Security Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/xinfoshare\/committees\/gc_1161274938888.shtm\">its quarterly public meeting<\/a> here.<\/p>\n<p>For more info <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Homeland+Security+dismisses+Real+ID+privacy+concerns\/2100-1028_3-6169388.html?tag=alert\">click here\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Va.&#8211;A senior U.S. Department of Homeland Security official on Wednesday said he finds privacy concerns prompted by the proposed Real ID regime puzzling. Stewart Baker, the department&#8217;s assistant secretary for policy, said a forthcoming system of uniform national identification cards will not put more personal information into the hands of motor vehicle administrators or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-government","category-rfid","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","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=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}