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“CDT will testify (text of statement submitted by CDT Exec. Director, 17 pages, PDF) April 13 before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the privacy and security issues raised by recent losses of personal information by data brokers and others. CDT will call for a stronger policy framework, requiring notice of breach, security safeguards, limits on …
CDT has made available a PDF version, 70 pages, of the DOJ’s April 2005 report, USA PATRIOT Act Sunsets Report. “The report, which was prepared at the request of Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, analyzes each of the 16 provisions that are scheduled to expire on December 31, 2005. See also Patriot Debates – A …
A Model Regime of Privacy Protection (Version 2.0), by Daniel J. Solove and Chris Jay Hoofnagle, April 5, 2005. GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 136.
From the current issue of Managing Technology (Wharton School): Do You Know Where Your Identity Is? Personal Data Theft Eludes Easy Remedies
Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property Oversight Hearing on Digital Music Interoperability and Availability, April 6, 2005. Link to Chairman’s Statement and Witness Statements
White House Has Tightly Restricted Oversight of C.I.A. Detentions “By law, the White House is required to notify the House and Senate Intelligence Committees of all intelligence-gathering activities. But the White House has taken the stance that the secret detention program is too sensitive to be described to any members other than the top Republican …
Several articles today raise questions about the extent to which the government has obtained access to library patron records, as indicated in testimony from yesterday’s hearing concerning the reauthorization of the law’s 16 provisions which are scheduled to expire at the end of 2005. Links are as follows: From the Christian Science Monitor, Patriot Act: …
Telework Exchange Showcases Federal Telework Dividends, Builds Online Federal Telework Community, and Tracks Agencies’ Telework Progress Related reference: Telecommuting Provision Part of 3,000 Page Spending Bill
Summary: H.R. 418 would authorize the appropriation of such sums as necessary for fiscal years 2005 through 2009 for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to make grants to states to cover the costs of improving the security of driver’s licenses as required by the bill. The legislation also would make changes to current immigration …
From the House Judiciary Committee: Legislative History of the Civil Rights Commission – This legislative history includes: (I) Committee Reports; (II) Congressional Record; (III) Court Opinions; and (IV) News Articles. Note, this document is in PDF, and is 566 pages.
At a presentation today titled, “They Want Your Secrets: Personal Information Privacy in the Post-9/11 World, during the Emerging Issues in National and International Security conference, Valerie Caproni, General Counsel of the FBI stated in reference to issues concerning Section 215 of the Patriot Act, “We don’t like the fact that librarians are upset…While their …
Press release yesterday: “Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., today released previously withheld portions of an FBI document critical of interrogation practices used by the Department of Defense (DOD) at Guantanamo Bay in 2002, disclosing information in that document previously withheld by the Department of Justice (DOJ). In a letter to DOJ on February 10, 2005, Levin …
