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“EPIC asked a federal court in Washington, DC to reconsider its earlier decision allowing the Department of Homeland Security to keep secret 2,000 airport body scanner images in EPIC’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The Court relied on a legal theory in its decision, “Exemption High b(2),” that was recently struck down by the Supreme …
News release: “The Department of Defense today released the Fiscal Year 2010 Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military. This years report also incorporates results from the quadrennial 2010 Workplace and Gender Relations Survey of Active Duty Members, an anonymous and voluntary survey conducted by the Defense Manpower Data Center, which measures gender issues …
News release: “The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) today is publishing its Report on Immigration in the United States: Detention and Due Process. The report contains the conclusions of an investigation the IACHR carried out to ascertain whether policies and practices on immigrant-related detention in the United States were compatible with the country’s international …
EPIC: “In a hearing before the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, EPIC urged Congress to suspend the use of airport body scanners for primary screening. EPIC said the devices were not effective and were not minimally intrusive, as courts have required for airport searches. EPIC cited TSA documents obtained in EPIC’s FOIA lawsuit which …
Making Google Accessible – “As part of Googles mission to make the worlds information universally accessible and useful, were committed to making accessibility a reality for all of our users, including those with disabilities.” See also The 26th Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference
Closing the Guantanamo Detention Center: Legal Issues, February 11, 2011 “The closure of the Guantanamo detention facility raises a number of legal issues with respect to the individuals formerly interned there, particularly if those detainees are transferred to the United States. The nature and scope of constitutional protections owed to detainees within the United States …
News release: “…the Justice Departments Bureau of Justice Statistics released the first in a series of data analysis tools that will enable the public to explore the recidivism patterns of persons involved with the criminal justice system. The new Prisoner Recidivism Analysis Tool allows users to conduct customized analyses of a large database describing the …
News release: “For the first time, industry groups and civil liberties interests have come together to advocate a comprehensive, common approach to cybersecurity. That approach is reflected in today’s release of a cybersecurity white paper that rejects government mandates and advocates for a stronger partnership between industry and government. The 20-page white paper is a …
Via the White House, Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being “In support of the Council on Women and Girls, the Office of Management and Budget and the Economics and Statistics Administration within the Department of Commerce worked together to create the Women in America report which, for the first time in recent …
Guardian UK: “This Tuesday, International Women’s Day will focus our attention on the struggle that millions still face against injustice and discrimination. In an impassioned essay, Mariella Frostrup argues that the fight for women’s rights is far from over.” “Gender-based violence causes more deaths and disabilities among women aged 15 to 44 than cancer, malaria, …
Follow up to previous postings on government implementation of whole body scanning technology at airports, via EPIC: “The Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security released a report finding that the agency’s contract files did not “contain[] sufficient evidence of justification and approval, market research, and acquisition planning” for the $1.3 billion dollars in …
The Tea Party, Religion and Social Issues, by Scott Clement, Survey Research Aanalyst, and John C. Green, February 23, 2011 A new analysis by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life finds that Tea Party supporters tend to have conservative opinions not just about economic matters, but also about social issues such …
