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Several resources of note for those interested in the government’s collection and use of airline passenger itineraries and associated personal data: The ACLU has posted an online FOIA request for use by passengers seeking to determine whether data collected by JetBlue is now part of the DOD’s TSA database. From The Practical Nomad, a range …
The Campaign Finance Institute’s Task Force On Presidential Nomination Financing issued a press release on its new report, Participation, Competition, Engagement Reviving And Improving Public Funding For Presidential Nomination Politics.
As a follow-up to my previous posting, Airline Passenger Profiling Study Goes Awry, on September 20 the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a complaint with the FTC, stating: “JetBlue Airways Corporation and Acxiom Corporation have engaged in deceptive trade practices affecting commerce by disclosing consumer personal information to Torch Concepts Inc., an information mining …
Executive Order 12958, Classified National Security Information, as amended by Executive Order 13292 (March 28, 2003), takes effect today. “This order prescribes a uniform system for classifying, safeguarding, and declassifying national security information, including information relating to defense against transnational terrorism. Our democratic principles require that the American people be informed of the activities of …
Report on accessing library records to be open: “Countering charges that the FBI is snooping into America’s reading habits, Attorney General John Ashcroft said yesterday that he would declassify a report on how often the agency has sought information from public libraries under the USA Patriot Act. The move came after a sharp exchange this …
Cheney Wants Supreme Court Review on Energy Case: “Last week, the appeals court refused to reconsider its previous ruling against Cheney, leaving him with the option of appealing to the Supreme Court or complying with a lower court order to release information about his task force’s contacts with the energy industry while drafting policy in …
Freedom of Information Act: Agency Views on Changes Resulting from New Administration Policy. GAO-03-981, September 3. Highlights. FOIA Rules Not Seen Affecting Information
On September 11, the National Security Archive at George Washington University “posted on the Web a new collection of recently declassified U.S. documents covering the controversial rise to power of Osama bin Laden’s former hosts in Afghanistan, the Taliban. This murky history has particular relevance today, as the Taliban fighters regroup in Afghanistan, and key …
From the independent, free World Legal information Institute, a new one-stop searchable database resource on privacy and FOI resources, the Privacy & FOI Law Project. Full-text and keyword searching are available for content from Australia, New Zealand, Nova Scotia, and the Asia-Pacific.
From Secrecy News: “The Library of Congress has recently acquired a new database of declassified documents that is available to members of the public who use the Library in Washington, DC, though it cannot be remotely accessed. The Declassified Documents Reference System, which was purchased from The Gale Group, “provides full-text access to over 500,000 …
From the Memory Hole’s Publisher and editor, Russ Kick, a copy of the TSA reply in response to his FOIA request for information related to the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon.
Information Access Alliance “The Information Access Alliance (a group that includes AALL, ALA, SLA, ACRL, MLA, and SPARC) believes that a new standard of antitrust review should be adopted by state and federal antitrust enforcement agencies in examining merger transactions in the serials publishing industry. When reviewing proposed mergers, antitrust authorities should consider the decision-making …
