On January 11, 2008, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued its final
regulations implementing the Real ID Act of 2005, the law that would federalize state
driver’s licenses and the motor vehicles departments that issue them and create the
nation’s first-ever de facto national identity card system.

To assist in the systematic evaluation of this complex issue, the ACLU has prepared this
scorecard listing all the potential problems that have been commonly identified with the

Bad Faith Peer Review

More than half a million people have died in a recent three year period as a result of
medical error and complications in the United States.1 The World Health Organization (WHO)
and others say that American health care ranks low among the nations – third-world care at twice
the cost, in effect. The RAND Corporation finds: “all adults ...are at risk for receiving poor
health care, no matter where they live; why, where and from whom they seek care; or what their

Find out about the progress of National ID proposals.

Find out why the REAL ID is a real problem.

Registered Traveler is a pilot program scheduled to be implemented later this year. Find out more about its requirements and possible privacy concerns.

The DEA's "War on Drugs" has expanded, but how does this affect pain management?

Learn more about the FBI's capacity to monitor the Internet.