Relax America, your driver's licenses will still be accepted at airport security
http://qz.com/581714/relax-america-your-drivers-licenses-will-still-be-accepted-at-airport-security/ On Dec. 22, the Department of Homeland Security alerted state officials in Illinois and Missouri that their exemptions to a federal identification standard will end. In practice, this means that driver's licenses from those states wont be valid to pass through security at various federally operated or regulated facilities--such as nuclear power plants, federal buildings, and courthouses--beginning on Jan. 10, 2016. Does that mean that holders of those documents can't use them to proceed through airport security checks? Absolutely not ... The number of Americans who have driver's licenses from states that are not compliant with Real ID rules is huge. Only 22 states and Washington DC are certified compliant with the Real ID requirements according to the Department of Homeland Security website. - - - TSA is playing chicken. And everybody knows it. The security farce continues. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently doing so -- my opinions expressed here are mine alone. _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
