National Conference of State Legislatures Identify Key Issues for 2006
Press release: NCSL’s Top Ten Legislative Issues Forecast For 2006.
Category «Privacy»
NSA Website Discontinues Tracking Users After Objections
Following up on yesterday’s posting, NSA Website Uses Cookies Despite Prohibition, from today’s New York Times: Spy Agency Removes Illegal Tracking Files. See also U.S. to probe contractor’s Web tracking
EPIC Posts Privacy Report By Alito While At Princeton
EPIC: “As a student at Princeton University, Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito put together a remarkable report on the future of privacy in America. EPIC has obtained a complete copy of the report and, in cooperation with the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library at Princeton University.”
NSA Website Uses Cookies Despite Prohibition
AP reports that the NSA website has continued to use cookies to track user access of the site, despite strict prohibitions against such practices: OMB Guidance for Implementing the Privacy Provisions of the E-Government Act of 2002, September 26, 2003 – Tracking technology prohibitions: agencies are prohibited from using persistent cookies or any other means …
FISA Court Made Modifications to Bush Surveillance Requests
Secret court modified wiretap requests – Intervention may have led Bush to bypass panel, by Stewart M. Powell, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Washington Bureau. Related commentary, references and postings: Reuters: Secret surveillance up since 9/11 – “The Justice Department’s reports to the U.S. Congress on the surveillance court’s activities show that the Bush administration made 5,645 applications …
National Archives Opens Additional Samuel Alito Records
National Archives Opens Additional Samuel Alito Records Records Pertaining to Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr
NSA’s Post 9/11 Domestic Data Mining and Surveillance Programs
New York Times: The Agency That Could Be Big Brother: “…the N.S.A. has suddenly taken center stage in a political firestorm. The controversy over whether the president broke the law when he secretly ordered the N.S.A. to bypass a special court and conduct warrantless eavesdropping on American citizens has even provoked some Democrats to call …
Congressional Review of Domestic Spying To Expand
New York Times: NSA spying inquiry may be expanded, “Congressional officials said Saturday that they wanted to investigate the disclosure that the National Security Agency (NSA) had gained access to some of the country’s main telephone arteries to glean data on possible terrorists.” Related links
UK to Implement 24 Hour Vehicle Surveillance Program
The Independent Online: “Britain is to become the first country in the world where the movements of all vehicles on the roads are recorded. A new national surveillance system will hold the records for at least two years.” The Independent Online: “If the police and security services can show that a national surveillance operation based …
Domestic Spying Program Extends to Monitoring All Calls Abroad and Locations in 6 U.S. Cities
Privacy advocates and legal scholars are speculating on and commenting about the ramifications of the surveillance program encompassing an even wider arena of communications than previously considered to be the case. Boston Globe: Spy net may pull in all U.S. calls overseas – Many Americans’ privacy is at risk, some say: “The National Security Agency, …
Debate Escalates on Domestic Spying Program
Following up on news that Judge Robinson resigned from the FISA court in protest over the administration’s warrantless surveillance program, related commentary and articles: Warrantless Wiretapping: Why It Seriously Imperils the Separation of Powers, And Continues the Executive’s Sapping of Power From Congress and the Courts, by Edward Lazarus. Judges on Surveillance Court To Be …
Opposing Views on Patriot Act Reauthorization Presented in DOJ and Advocacy Group Statements
DOJ Fact Sheet, December 20, 2005 – Civil Liberties Safeguards in the USA PATRIOT Act Conference Report: “After months of debateincluding 23 Congressional hearings with over 60 witnessesthe Senate must act to reauthorize the USA PATRIOT Act before these key provisions expire. Last week, the House of Representatives voted to reauthorize the bill with strong …
