What will the future bring for ID demands? Our prognosis and overview of the challenges ahead, regardless of the outcome of today's elections: papersplease.org/wp/2024/11/05/…

What will the future bring for ID demands? Our prognosis and overview of the challenges ahead: papersplease.org/wp/2024/11/05/…

Our work continues: papersplease.org/wp/2024/11/05/…

Do you need ID to read the REAL-ID rules? My day at the TSA did not go well: papersplease.org/wp/2024/11/25/…

Do you need ID to read the REAL-ID rules? papersplease.org/wp/2024/11/25/… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=422399…)

DEA pays airline staff to target innocent travelers: papersplease.org/wp/2024/12/02/…

Real ID requirements come with major privacy concerns. Lots of secrecy and $$ going to NGOs. DOGE needs to look into this issue. Department of Government Efficiency Elon Musk Vivek Ramaswamy papersplease.org/wp/2024/11/25/…

CBP facial recognition is a service for the airline industry. Responses to our FOIA requests show the malign converence of interest in facial recognition for traveler identification and tracking between government and the airline industry: papersplease.org/wp/2024/12/04/…

Court stays Jan. 1, 2025, deadline for IDs and mug shots of all corporate principals: finds that requiring ID is a law enforcement and investigatory device, not a "regulation of commerce": papersplease.org/wp/2024/12/06/…

This week's net.wars, "Government identification as a service", sees the first casualty of the Online Safety Act and listens to Edward Hasbrouck claim he's an optimist: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/12/20/gov…

Human Rights and “Countering Terrorist Travel”: following up on the report of the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrrorism and Human Rights: papersplease.org/wp/2025/01/06/…

Today the TSA published new regulations for the #REAL-ID Act, leaving it unclear who the TSA will allow to #fly without #ID, and who it will prevent from flying without ID, after May 7, 2025. Analysis of the new rules and what's likely to happen next: papersplease.org/wp/2025/01/14/…

#Maine may stop complying with the #REAL-ID Act: papersplease.org/wp/2025/01/15/…

Surveillance as a service (SAAS): The private companies that are providing ouytsourced turnkey traveler surveillance, profiling, and control systems for government customers worldwide: papersplease.org/wp/2025/01/28/…