Civil-liberties tug-of-war

By DEIRDRE FULTON | June 20, 2007

But as one New Hampshire legislator pointed out when his state passed its legislation last month: “If New York and California refuse to comply, Real ID will collapse of its own weight.” (California passed a measure last year that would bring the state into Real ID compliance, but New York has an active anti-Real ID faction and the state assembly has yet to weigh in on the issue.)

And we started it all.

On the Web
Save the Internet: http://www.savetheinternet.com/

Net Competition: http://www.netcompetition.org/

Maine Civil Liberties Union: http://www.mclu.org/

Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC): http://www.epic.org/privacy/id_cards/

Rep. Tom Allen on Real ID: http://tomallen.house.gov/index.cfm?ContentID=414&ParentID=4&SectionID=125&SectionTree=4,15&lnk=b&ItemID=407

Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Bryan Dorgan (D-ND) on Net Neutrality: http://dorgan.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=255904

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Deirdre Fulton: dfulton@phx.com.

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