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As a follow-up to my July 11, 2005 posting, Wiretapping In-Flight Passenger Internet and Wireless Communications, see comments (17 pages, PDF) filed today with the FCC by CDT and EPIC stipulating their position that “the proposal raises constitutional concerns and could impose burdensome design mandates on emerging technology.”
Press release: “The National Security Archive, along with other secrecy experts, today filed a ‘friend of the court’ brief ( 42 pages, PDF) in a lawsuit challenging the FBI’s authority to issue national security letters (NSLs) without any judicial oversight and under a blanket gag order that prohibits the recipient from speaking with anyone about …
Steinbock, Daniel J., Data Matching, Data Mining, and Due Process, Georgia Law Review, Forthcoming. “This Article concerns governmental actions based upon computerized data matching (comparison of records) and data mining (profiling). Over 50 federal agencies are using or planning to use data matching and data mining, in a total of 199 programs, some of which …
ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline, Volume 14, Number 73, August 1, 2005 “Late on Friday, July 29, the final day before its summer recess, the Senate passed S. 1389 (the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005) on unanimous consent (no debate, no amendments, no roll call vote). The bill adds to …
From the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property July 18, 2005 – H. Rept. 109-174, part 1 to Accompany H.R. 3199, USA PATRIOT Act and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2005 (510 pages, PDF) See also this committee bibliography of links on the USA Patriot Act.
Center for Democracy and Technology Analysis of Senate and House PATRIOT Act Reauthorization Bills, July 26, 2005 (6 pages, PDF)
The New York Times reported that the House version of the Patriot Act reauthorization would require the DOJ to report to Congress on data mining activities.
Aviation Security: Transportation Security Administration Did Not Fully Disclose Uses of Personal Information During Secure Flight Program Testing in Initial Privacy Notes, but Has Recently Taken Steps to More Fully Inform the Public, GAO-05-864R, July 22, 2005. See also related postings on the TSA Secure Flight program
The House (H.R. 3199) and the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to renew provisions of the Patriot Act which sunset by year’s end. House Supports PATRIOT Act Reauthorization in Solid, Bipartisan Vote – Sensenbrenner: The American people are safer today because of the PATRIOT Acts vital law enforcement and intelligence reforms. Sensenbrenner House Floor Statement on …
Hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Reporters’ Privilege Legislation: Issues and Implications, Wednesday, July 20, 2005 [Free Flow of Information Act of 2005, S. 1419. See also the House companion bill, H.R. 3323.] Link to testimony and member statements. Time for a Federal Shield Law, New York Times
House Judiciary Committee, Democratic Dissenting Views – H.R. 3199, the “USA PATROIT and Terrorism Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2005” (70 pages, PDF) See also related Patriot Act postings
FBI says it has files on ACLU, Greenpeace, other rights groups Large Volume of F.B.I. Files Alarms U.S. Activist Groups: “The Federal Bureau of Investigation has collected at least 3,500 pages of internal documents in the last several years on a handful of civil rights and antiwar protest groups in what the groups charge is …
