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House Judiciary Committee, Immigration Subcommittee Hearing on Rep. Dreier’s Legislation Establishing a Tamper-Proof Social Security Card: Legislative Hearing on H.R. 98, the “Illegal Immigration Enforcement and Social Security Protection Act of 2005” News Advisory 5-11-05 Testimony of EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
Senate Commerce Committee on Spyware, May 11 2005 Witness Statements: Sen. Ron Wyden; Trevor Hughes, Executive Director, Network Advertising Initiative; David Moll, Chief Executive Officer, Webroot Software, Inc.; Ari Schwartz, Associate Director, Center for Democracy and Technology. Related references: Webroot State of Spyware Report: A report about the effects of spyware on enterprises and consumers …
Press release from Sen. Charles Schumer: “DSW, ChoicePoint, Lexis-Nexis, Westlaw Just the Recent Examples of Egregious Loopholes Which Are Compromising People’s Personal Information.” Related references on ID theft
Information Management: Implementation of the Freedom of Information Act GAO-05-648T, May 11, 2005, Highlights. “According to data reported by agencies in their annual FOIA reports, citizens have been requesting and receiving an ever-increasing amount of information from the federal government through FOIA. The number of requests that agencies received increased by 71 percent from 2002 …
From the May 3, 2005 Federal Register: Presidential records; management and custody: Clinton Administration electronic backup tapes; proposed disposal: “NARA proposes the disposition of 9,193 backup tapes created during the Clinton Administration by White House Communications Agency (WHCA) staff because NARA has determined that they lack continuing administrative, historical, informational or evidentiary value. The tapes …
Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, Oversight Hearing on the “Implementation of the USA PATRIOT Act: Prohibition of Material Support Under Sections 805 of the USA PATRIOT Act and 6603 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004.” Witness Statements: Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General, United States Department of Justice; Gregory Katsas, …
From FindLaw, In Re Cheney, May 10, 2005: “A federal appeals court rules that the Sierra Club and Judicial Watch “failed to establish any duty…owed to them by the federal government” to disclose any documents which may have shown what, if any, communications the White House Energy Task Force had with energy industry lobbyists and …
REAL ID: “The United States is getting a national ID card. The REAL ID Act (text of the bill and the Congressional Research Services analysis of the bill) establishes uniform standards for state driver’s licenses, effectively creating a national ID card. It’s a bad idea, and is going to make us all less safe. It’s …
Speech delivered by US House Judiciary Committee Chairman Sensenbrenner at Stanford University, May 9, 2005: The Relationship Between the Legislative and Judicial Branches (text of the speech, 6 pages, PDF)
Senate Commerce Committee Hearing on Identity Theft/Data Broker Services, Full Committee Hearing, May 10 2005 Testimony: Kurt Sanford, President & CEO, U.S. Corporate and Federal Government Markets, LexisNexis; Douglas C. Curling, President and Chief Operating Officer, ChoicePoint, Inc.; Jennifer Barrett, Chief Privacy Officer, Acxiom Corporation; Paul Kurtz, Executive Director, Cyber Security Industry Alliance; Marc Rotenberg, …
Continued Oversight of the USA PATRIOT Act, Senate Judiciary Committee, May 10, 2005 Testimony: Bob Barr, David Cole, Danile P. Collins, James X. Dempsey, Andrew C. McCarthy, Suzanne E. Spaulding Member Statements: Patrick Leahy – “Legitimate concerns have been raised about various powers granted by the PATRIOT Act, not so much for how they have …
This May 1, 2005 UK Times article, Blair hit by new leak of secret war plan, is referenced in this May 5, 2005 letter of inquiry (8 pages, PDF) to President Bush, signed by 88 U.S. Representatives. The letter asks five specific questions in an effort to seek verification that the “United States and Great …
