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CAPPS II is very much in the news recently, with articles on the subject appearing in the Washington Times, Washington Post, and Federal Computer News. Rights advocates slam new screening system: “Conservative and liberal advocates are banding together to oppose new airline passenger screening methods that they say will be a “quantum leap” in government …
As a follow-up to my recent posting on radio frequency ID tags in consumer goods, here is an article, WhereWare, that describes how wireless devices (notebooks, PDAs, cell phones) will be used as location tools to track their “owners every movement.”
Links to resources from today’s ACLU forum, “CAPPS II: Passenger Screening and Privacy Concerns,” are as follows: press release Remarks by Laura W. Murphy, Director, ACLU Washington Legislative Office Fact Sheet: The Five Problems With CAPPS II: Why the Airline Passenger Profiling Proposal Should Be Abandoned
Here is a link to a draft of the Victory Act (89 pages, pdf), courtesy of Rich Allen, Winthrop Public Library. Rich found the link on PatriotWatch, a blog that has numerous links to related documents, most of which are hosted by advocacy groups. Many thanks Rich! For reference, see my previous related posting, Controversy …
This presentation, RFID and the Public Policy Void, by Beth Givens, founder and director of the non-profit Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, was delivered to the Joint Committee on Preparing California for the 21st Century. Radio frequency ID tags, used by manufacturers and merchants in a wide range of products ranging from automobiles to clothing, are the …
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has issued a list of questions for reporters to ask Attorney General Ashcroft as he pursues his national PR campaign in support of the Patriot Act. The questions focus on the impact of Sec. 215 of the Act (Access to Records and Other Items Under the Foreign …
The California State Senate passed SB 1 yesterday, by a vote of 32 to 6. This bill would enact the California Financial Information Privacy Act, which would require a financial institution, as defined, to provide a specified written form to a consumer relative to the sharing of the consumer’s nonpublic personal information. See also, Lawmakers …
3rd Circuit OKs Posting Addresses of Convicts Under Megan’s Law: “The decision in A.A. v. State of New Jersey overturns a lower court’s injunction that limited the state to posting only the offenders’ county of residence on the Internet registry.” See also my previous posting on two Supreme Court rulings from earlier this year upholding …
A CIPA Toolkit – Answers to the most frequently asked questions about the Supreme Court’s June ruling that upheld the filtering requirement in the Children’s Internet Protection Act. (reg. req’d)
According to FCW.com, Maya Bernstein is the new “head of the office in charge of agency (IRS) policies for protecting taxpayers’ personal information an increasingly important job as data is handled by more electronic systems in the agency’s modernization.”
The National Consumer Privacy Coalition Group obtained a draft of the VICTORY Act (Vital Interdiction of Criminal Terrorist Organizations Act of 2003), which has been circulated on Capitol Hill, but a copy of which I have yet to find posted on the web (please contact me if you have a link). This article indicates that …
Although there has been considerable focus on the Patriot Act as it impacts libraries, this Atlanta-Journal Constitution article details the wider impact of law enforcement’s significantly increased demand for customer data from businesses that range from scuba shops to telecommunications companies. Examples from the article include the following: “Last year, before the Memorial Day weekend, …
