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Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing, April 5, 2005 – Oversight of the USA PATRIOT Act. Links to testimony by Alberto Gonzales, United States Attorney General and Robert S. Mueller III, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as to Member Statements by Charles Grassley and Patrick Leahy
From AP, Google Feature Incorporates Satellite Maps. Related references: What’s a “Satellite” view?, FAQs for Google Maps and E-Gov’t Portal Links Users to Wealth of Geographic Data
eWeek reports on a class action lawsuit against DirectRevenue claiming that the company “deceptively downloaded harmful and offensive software…” [PDF via Broadbandreports.com] Related reference, Comparison of Unwanted Software Installed by P2P Programs, Benjamin Edelman
Press release: Privacilla to U.S. State Department: No RFID Tags in U.S. Passports “Privacilla.org filed comments today with the U.S. Department of State objecting to putting Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags in passports, which all Americans must carry when traveling abroad.” EPIC’s comments on Electronic Passport (PDF) Related postings on RFID and passports
From the Washington Post, via truthout, Net Aids Access to Sensitive ID Data addresses how it continues to be easy and inexpensive to obtain personal data on the web from a variety of sources, despite the escalating controversy focused on a range of recent ID theft scams launched against large database aggregators.
From the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Special Publication 800-66: An Introductory Resource Guide for Implementing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule, March 2005 (137 pages, PDF)
From AP, ChoicePoint to allow people access to personal records.
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 …
Aviation Security: Secure Flight Development and Testing Under Way, but Risks Should Be Managed as System Is Further Developed GAO-05-356, March 28, 2005. Highlights. “…the effectiveness of Secure Flight in identifying passengers who should undergo additional security scrutiny has not been fully determined. For example, TSA has not resolved how passenger data will be transmitted …
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: “U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today announced the introduction of legislation to prohibit a variety of surreptitious practices that result in spyware, adware and other unwanted software being placed on consumers computers. The bipartisan SPYBLOCK (Software Principles Yielding Better Levels of Consumer Knowledge) Act, introduced with Senator Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), would prohibit the …
As previously documented, there has been an ongoing controversy associated with website blocking of links to free annual credit reports, resulting in the requirement that users had to actually type the requisite URL into their respective browsers. Today EPIC reported that due to the efforts of advocacy groups and the support of Congressman Barney Frank, …
