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Follow up to February 23, 2007 posting, County Clerk Property Records Images No Longer Available Online, this updated information: A.G. gives county clerks reprieve on privacy law – “Attorney General Greg Abbott this morning issued a letter that allows county clerks statewide to release public documents with private information on them, such as Social Security …
RIAA press release: “The recording industry today launched a new and strengthened campus anti-piracy initiative that significantly expands the scope and volume of its deterrent efforts while offering a new process that gives students the opportunity to avoid a formal lawsuit by settling prior to a litigation being filed. The Recording Industry Association of America …
Press release: “The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit against the Department of Justice today, demanding records about secret new court orders that supposedly authorize the government’s highly controversial electronic surveillance program that intercepts and analyzes millions of Americans’ communications.” FOIA complaint filed against the Justice Department Related postings on the government’s domestic surveillance program
Follow up to February 21, 2007 posting, DHS Announces Traveler Redress Inquiry Program, today Rep. Henry Waxman, Chair of Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a letter to TSA requesting “explain why a TSA website that collected Social Security numbers and personal information from the public operated for several days without basic security measures.”
“Access to online Texas county clerk public record databases has been shut down after the Attorney General issued an opinion on Feb. 21 clarifying that clerks must redact social security numbers from documents before releasing copies of them and/or posting them online. Texas Attorney General opinion GA-0519 is here…and is the cause for this removal. …
Press release: “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today its intent to propose, as part of the forthcoming Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI), significant flexibility regarding travel documents required for U.S. and Canadian children as part of WHTI requirements for U.S. land and sea border entry in 2008. …
Information Quality: The Foundation for Justice Decision Making — Global Privacy and Information Quality Working Group (GPIQWG) – February 21, 2007.
“On April 23 and 24, 2007, the Federal Trade Commission will host a public workshop, Proof Positive: New Directions in ID Authentication, to explore methods to reduce identity theft through enhanced authentication. The workshop will facilitate a discussion among public-sector, private-sector, and consumer representatives, and will focus on technological and policy requirements for developing better …
Press release: “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today the launch of the DHS Traveler Redress Inquiry Program (DHS TRIP). Travelers can now seek redress and resolve possible watch list misidentification issues with any of the departments component agencies at an easy to use and easy to access online location…DHS TRIP provides a way …
Technical Security Evaluation of DHS Activities at Dulles International Airport, Unclassified Summary, OIG-07-25 (PDF, 3 pages), February 20, 2007 Letter Report: DHS’s Implementation of Protective Measures for Personnally Identifiable Information (Redacted) OIG-07-24 (PDF, 26 pages), February 2, 2007
The National Conference of State Legislatures posted a Countdown to REAL ID (May 11, 2008) guide that includes links to documents arranged by Federal Issues (including text and history of the Act), State Issues (including a REAL ID State Legislation Database) and Web Resources. “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has failed to release …
“CDT has released an analysis of the legislative proposals now pending before Congress, February 15, 2007” – CDT Analysis of Child Protection Bills Pending in Congress (10 pages, PDF)
