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“The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review announced in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee that it would provide the panel with a copy of what is expected to be a signal ruling on the Justice Department’s request for broad new wiretap powers.” A copy of the opinion is available at: The court was …
The California Senate, in a 25-13 vote on August 31, 2002, killed the Financial Information Privacy Act (SB 773), “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 confidential consumer before the financial institution could share the confidential consumer information …
The two author’s of this article, Jeffrey Eisenach and Peter Swire, are former members of the Reagan and Clinton administrations respectively. They concur on the need for the creation “of a new commission on privacy, personal freedom and homeland security.”
The Progressive Librarians Guild issued a statement in opposition to the DOJ’s Operation TIPS (Terrorism Information and Prevention System), which gives the federal government’s stamp of approval to citizens’ reporting on the supposedly suspicious and potentially nefarious activities of their friends and neighbors (such as what kind of books they take out of the library).
The Lawyer’s Committee for Human Rights released an important set of documents, in PDF, that focus on the legal ramifications of 9-11 to American society and the legal process. A 79 page report report, along with a corresponding set of recommendations, and a chronology by date of the government’s restrictions on civil liberties …
Newsday.com published this AP article on September 5 which enumerates the changes in our fundamental rights since 9-11. See also, Safe and Free in Times of Crisis, On Eve of One-Year Anniversary, ACLU Says Terrorist Attacks Have Changed American Law, Society.
The Kennedy School of Government, NPR and the Kaiser foundation released a report, 2002 Civil Liberties Update which seems to contradict recent articles indicating that Americans were prepared to give up certain rights facilitate the war on terrorism.
On 9/10/2002, the House Judiciary Committee approved H.R. 4561, the Federal Agency Protection of Privacy Act, that “Requires Federal agencies: (1) when publishing a general notice of proposed rulemaking for any proposed rule or for an interpretative rule involving the internal revenue laws, to prepare, make available for public comment, and publish an initial analysis …
The Electronic Privacy Information Center’s report, Privacy and Human Rights 2002, examines privacy in the context of the events of 9-11 and the impact of these events on fifty countries. The report can be downloaded in three separate parts, in PDF, or purchased from the EPIC bookstore.
The UK has implemented a new guidance from the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 , via Home Office Circular 7/2002, sec. 119, allowing police, customers or immigration officers “to make a request to air or ship carriers to provide information about passengers, crew or vehicles belonging to the passengers and crew on any air …
CNET has a special report that is worth review. It includes the following articles: Safety: Assessing the infrastructure risk, Politics: Weighing security against liberties Lessons, and Keeping networks alive in New York.
The California State Senate will decide today whether or not to pass the most recent marked up version of Senate Bill 773, the California Financial Information Privacy Act. If passed, financial institutions would be required to obtain written permission from their clients to disseminate, sell or market personal data to third parties.
