A quick roundup...

A nice article on the Computerworld site took note of the coalition of organizations working together to get comments filed before the May 8th deadline. Many bloggers likewise have shown support for the campaign -- more than 75 per the Privacy Coalition's Stop Real ID page.

Over at Govtech.com, they had a fine summary of the Town Hall meeting. Here was a list of some of the issues they highlighted as coming up at the meeting:

• Lack of inclusion of states in decision making process
• Privacy and security of records
• Types of information stored in databases
• Identity theft and inside jobs
• Use, and types of biometrics included
• Ease in which people with disabilities, and the elderly will be able to get cards
• Putting addresses on cards and the danger to people escaping violent environments
• Religious discrimination
• Gender options on cards
• Costs to states and individuals

Richard Forno and Bruce Shneier wrote a piece called "National ID card a disaster in the making." This is a great piece well worth the read.

And Deborah Pierce of Privacy Activism (and this blog) noted in a thread on Tribe.net that...

The commenting process isn't easy, and so legislators estimate that each comment represents the views of 1,000 people ... your voice matters a lot.

Indeed it does! Yet one more reason why it's time to write those comments....