REAL ID rollout leaves some privacy-minded lawmakers mum

With President Donald Trump returning to the White House and the final flow of the real federal identity requirements that will turn in May, many of the privacy advocates in Washington were largely silent.

While legislators with privacy on both sides of the corridor spent years in the bombing of the Patriot law, among other measures, a few of them raise warnings about the implementation of the Trump administration, which is looming on the horizon of the real identity law-a law issued in 2005 described by critics as a national identity system.

Some of the lawmakers who remained silent on the real identity were very noisy when another expansion occurred in the National Security Service-Patriot Law of 2001-but not that when the United States was just days away from the implementation of the real identity.

Sens. Edward Markey, D-Mass. , Ron Wydeen, D-Or. , Jeff Merkley, D-Or. All of them are in congress when Patriot law eventually faced successful renewal in 2010, and when a draft law was ran in 2020.

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“The Congress has the duty to protect the privacy of the Americans, but the law re -mandating freedom in the United States of America has failed to reduce the types of information that the government can collect from the Americans, and has failed to reduce the period that the government can preserve the information that it collects from us,” Marqui said in a statement in 2020, which opposes Fisa renewal.

“I am unwilling to give any main control tools that constitute such a great risk to the civil freedoms of the Americans,” he said.

In 2011, Mercli was one of eight members of the Senate who voted to prevent the renewal of the Patriot Law from coming to the ground for discussion, according to Oregon Live.

His colleague in Bever and Eden voted, eventually to allow the discussion, but he said in the Senate Hall during the speech to be reconsidered.

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“The Patriot Law was passed a decade ago in a period of understanding,” said Widan at that time.

“It is now time to reconsider this … and make sure to do better than this balance between fighting terrorism and protecting individual freedom.”

Mercli expressed his concern at the time about the ability of the Patriot Law to allow law enforcement to collect many types of personal data such as emails and phone records.

In order to obtain a real identity card, licenses must submit the social security number and other documents.

While the implementation of the real identity of 20 years was delayed through several factors including Covid-19, Merkley has been “protesting” at the time of the renewal of the Patriot Law that a four-year extension of the post-September 11 law had been put in place without enough time for discussion.

In 2005, Widan also delivered a Senate speech opposing the first re -authorization of the Patriot Law.

Marqui did not respond to multiple requests for comment, as he left in his offices in Washington and Boston. Mercli also did not respond to a request for comment.

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One of the Wydeen representatives admitted a request to comment Fox News Digital, but he said that Oregon was traveling and holding the city’s halls with voters in the country and cannot be reached immediately.

On his web page in the Senate, Widan presented a group of his comprehensive actions in favor of privacy, as well[ading] The battle to address the intelligence community depends on the secret interpretations of the monitoring law. “

He said in 2011: “When the American people discover how their government explained the Patriot Law secretly, they will be stunned and will be angry.”

Widen was also angry in 2013 when it turned out that the National Security Agency secretly explained the act to collect personal data for millions of Americans without a judicial order.

In a statement to Fox News Digital on privacy concerns with ID Real, the Assistant Minister of National Security Tricia McLAGHLIN said that the real identity “makes identifying identity more difficult to thwart criminals and terrorists.”

Eighty percent of air travelers [already] Carry real or acceptable real identity identification. “

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“The Ministry of National Security will continue to cooperate with the authorities of the states, the local and the airport to inform the public, facilitate compliance, curb waiting times, and prevent fraud.”

Fox News has also continued to comment on a series of two parties who were a party to confidence -supporting bills or have taken confidence -supporting positions in the past, including SNS. Rand Paul and R-Ky. And Bernie Sanders, I-VT.