Privacy Groups Request Congressional Hearings on CAPPS II

The recent release of a GAO report critical of the airline passenger screening program to be implemented this summer has intensified calls for Congressional hearings on the privacy and civil liberties issues associated with CAPPS II data collection.

  • EFF Privacy Coalition Presses Congress for Hearings on Air Travel
  • EFF Coalition letter asking for Congressional hearings on travel privacy, February 17, 2004.
  • TSA’s Passenger & Baggage Screening Efforts Criticized At Congressional Hearing, February 12, 2004
  • Congressional Leaders Ask President Bush: How Will You Protect Passenger Privacy?, February 11, 2004
  • Transcript of Media Roundtable with Nuala O’Connor Kelly, Chief Privacy Officer, DHS, February 17, 2004, in which she addresses the status of the Jet Blue investigation, CAPPS II and the GAO report referenced above.
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