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As any one can plainly see I'm no longer interested in moderating this or any other boards. Anyone interested in running this board should send a link to this post to Matt along with a statement that they want the job. GLTY
ah, the guy who fashions himself after Mark Hanna... what a slime.
Karl Rove most likely. I'm sure George doesn't have a clue.
Those are pretty serious charges... if it's true, who would be responsible for that policy?
Secret Service Ordered Local Police to Restrict Anti-Bush Protesters at Rallies, ACLU Charges in Unprecedented Nationwide Lawsuit
September 23, 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WASHINGTON – At events attended by President Bush and other senior federal officials around the country, the Secret Service has been discriminating against protesters in violation of their free speech rights, the American Civil Liberties Union charged today in the first nationwide lawsuit of its kind.
“There is nothing more American than raising your voice in protest, and there is nothing more un-American than a government that attempts to hit the mute button when it doesn’t like what it hears,” said Witold Walczak, Legal Director of the ACLU of Greater Pittsburgh and a member of the national ACLU legal team that filed today’s lawsuit.
When President Bush came to Neville Island, PA last year, protesters were herded behind a chain-link fence in a remote area while supporters were allowed to line the motorcade route. One man who refused to be corralled was arrested.
During President Bush's visit to Neville Island, PA last year, supporters were allowed to line the motorcade route, while protesters were herded to a remote area out of sight of the press corps and the President.
The ACLU said it had seen a significant spike in such incidents under the Bush Administration, prompting it to charge officials with a “pattern and practice” of discrimination against those who disagree with government policies.
According to ACLU legal papers, local police, acting at the direction of the Secret Service, violated the rights of protesters in two ways: people expressing views critical of the government were moved further away from public officials while those with pro-government views were allowed to remain closer; or everyone expressing a view was herded into what is commonly known as a “protest zone,” leaving those who merely observe, but express no view, to remain closer.
Security is not at issue, the ACLU noted, because anyone intent on harming officials would simply carry a sign with a supportive message or no sign at all. “The individuals we are talking about didn’t pose a security threat; they posed a political threat,” Walczak said.
The case was filed on behalf of four national advocacy groups that engage in frequent demonstrations around the country. The groups are: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), United for Peace and Justice (UPFJ), USAction, and National Organization for Women (NOW).
The national lawsuit, which was filed in Philadelphia, originated earlier this year when the ACLU of Pennsylvania sought enforcement of a 1988 decree requiring city officials to treat protesters fairly. Today’s action amends that lawsuit to include similar incidents around the country. The Secret Service is named as the federal defendant in the lawsuit, along with the Philadelphia Police Department for its role in the recent demonstrations in that city.
ACLU of Pennsylvania Legal Director Stefan Presser, who obtained the 1988 decree and is part of the national legal team in today’s lawsuit, noted that he has had to return to court several times following incidents in which local protesters were kept further away from the site of presidential visits than Administration supporters. A high-ranking official of the Philadelphia police told Presser that he was only following Secret Service orders.
“The Secret Service’s directives, which have the effect of deciding which messages are to be afforded favorable treatment, are completely at odds with our Constitution’s guarantees of free speech and rights of protest,” Presser said.
The ACLU’s legal papers listed more than a dozen examples of police censorship at events around the country, saying that all had been initiated at the behest of the Secret Service and that such incidents are on the rise. The incidents described took place in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Carolina, Texas and Washington, among other places.
In one example, retired steelworker Bill Neel, 66, was handcuffed and detained by local officials at a rally in western Pennsylvania last year after he refused to be herded into a remote “designated free speech zone” located behind a six-foot chain-link fence.
“As far as I’m concerned, the whole country is a free speech zone,” Neel said. “If the Bush Administration has its way, anyone who criticizes them will be out of sight and out of mind. Anyone who calls himself a patriot ought to be as concerned about this as I am.”
Neel’s story and similar incidents are also described in a May 2003 ACLU report, Freedom Under Fire: Dissent in Post-9/11 America. The report looks at government crackdowns on dissent in a variety of contexts, including at presidential and vice-presidential appearances, in public schools and at anti-war rallies.
Today’s case is ACORN et al. v. City of Philadelphia et al., Civil Action No. 03-4312, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania before Judge John Fullam.
ACLU attorneys in the case are Presser, Walczak, ACLU national senior staff attorney Chris Hansen and Art Spitzer, Legal Director of the ACLU of the National Capital Area.
http://www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeech.cfm?ID=13699&c=86
Bonehead Play of the Year by the ACLU, ROTFLMAO!!!!
Liberal ACLU lawyers want to impose their Communist agenda on us and have no trouble finding "like thinking" Federal Judges to agree with them.
http://www.wtv-zone.com/techniguy/political/crosses.html
Thats great news ergo, thanks for bringing it to my attention. I'm also assuming that would mean the eradication of Post Polio Syndrome as well.
The Patriot Act is the center piece for the admin's disturbing policies.
ACLU Demands Truth From Justice Department; New Report Details False Claims About Scope, Impact of PATRIOT Act
July 9, 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Media@dcaclu.org
WASHINGTON -- The American Civil Liberties Union today said that it has found a consistent pattern of factually inaccurate assertions by the Department of Justice in statements to the media and Congress, statements that mischaracterize the scope, potential impact and likely harm of the now-notorious USA PATRIOT Act.
The ACLU’s findings were released this morning in a special report that contrasts the Justice Department’s assertions about the USA PATRIOT Act with the language of the Act itself, and in some cases contrasts the Justice Department’s public statements with language from internal Justice Department memoranda that the ACLU was able to obtain through a Freedom of Information Act request. The report – “Seeking Truth From Justice” – cites about a dozen specific instances in which Justice Department and other law enforcement officials misrepresented the scope or impact of the USA PATRIOT Act.
“If the Justice Department wishes to convince the American people and their elected representatives that it carries the Constitution with it at all times during its prosecution of the war on terror, it must be conscientious with the truth,” said Laura W. Murphy, Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office.
“That the department and its allies would repeatedly misrepresent the scope and nature of new surveillance powers is troubling, to say the least,” said Ann Beeson, ACLU Associate Legal Director.
Specific instances of what the ACLU termed the Attorney General’s legal version of "voodoo economics" include:
The Justice Department’s repeated assertion that the USA PATRIOT Act’s surveillance provisions cannot be used against U.S. citizens. In fact, the surveillance provisions are applicable to citizens and non-citizens alike. Some of the surveillance provisions can be used even against citizens who are not suspected of espionage, terrorism, or crime of any kind.
The Justice Department’s repeated assertion that Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which permits the government to demand that any organization – including a library, bookstore, or hospital – turn its records over to the FBI, cannot be invoked unless the government can show “probable cause.” In fact, the law contains no such restriction. Section 215 requires only that the government declare that the records are “sought for” an ongoing investigation. The “sought for” standard is an extremely lenient one, and it bears no resemblance to “probable cause.” That the standard is so low is especially troubling in light of the Attorney General’s recent acknowledgement (at a June 2003 Congressional hearing) that the FBI could use Section 215 to obtain not only library and bookstore records but also computer files, educational records, and even genetic information.
The “Seeking Truth From Justice” report can be found at:
http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=13099&c=206
You're probably right. There have been some cases when they've gone to far infringing on citizens rights. I hope it doesn't get any worse.
This article reaks of government arrogance, but considering the war against terrorism efforts currently at a very high priority I'd bet the resolution of the two womens delima will be long in coming if at all!
ACLU seeks government data regarding secret ``no-fly'' list
DAVID KRAVETS, Associated Press Writer Tuesday, April 22, 2003
(04-22) 15:43 PDT SAN FRANCISCO (AP) --
The American Civil Liberties Union sued the FBI and other government agencies Tuesday on behalf of two peace activists detained at an airport because their names popped up on a secret "no-fly" list.
The women were among 339 travelers briefly detained and questioned at San Francisco International Airport during the past two years after their names were found in the database, the ACLU said, citing government documents. Those travelers ultimately were allowed to continue on their journeys.
"Thousands of passengers are likely being subjected to the same sort of treatment at airports across the country," said Jayashri Srikantiah, an ACLU attorney.
The database was created after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as a way to prevent potential terrorists from boarding planes. The Transportation Security Administration gets names from law enforcement officials and gives the lists to airlines to screen passengers.
The ACLU is asking a federal judge to demand that the TSA, FBI or the Justice Department disclose who is on the list, how they got on it and how they can get off it.
The plaintiffs, Rebecca Gordon and Janet Adams, publish the San Francisco-based War Times. They were stopped in August while checking in for a flight to Boston.
"It was very distressing," Gordon said.
The two invoked the Freedom of Information Act to demand that authorities reveal why they were stopped. The TSA did not respond to their request and the FBI said no files on the two existed, the ACLU said.
An FBI spokesman on Tuesday referred inquiries to the TSA.
TSA spokesman Niko Melendez said those on the no-fly list pose, or are suspected of posing, a threat to civil aviation and national security. He added that the agency does "not confirm the presence of a particular name of an individual on a list."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/04/22/national1843EDT0700.DTL
The Saudis are boycotting American goods. We should return the favor. An interesting thought would be to boycott their GAS. Every time you fill up the car, you can avoid putting more money into the coffers of Saudi Arabia. Just buy from gas companies that don't import their oil from the Saudis. Nothing is more frustrating than the feeling that every time I fill up the tank, I am sending my money to people who are trying to kill me, my family, and my friends. I thought it might be interesting for you to know which oil companies are the best to buy gas from and which major companies import Middle Eastern oil (for the period 9/1/00 - 8/31/01):
Shell.........................205,742,000 barrels
Chevron/Texaco................144,332,000 barrels
Exxon /Mobil..................130,082,000 barrels
Marathon/Speedway.............117,740,000 barrels
Amoco..........................62,231,000 barrels
Citgo....................0 barrels
Sunoco...................0 barrels
Conoco...................0 barrels
Sinclair.................0 barrels
BP/Phillips..............0 barrels
Hess.....................0 barrels
I like it! Ibox has been edited!
A link to a board you might want for the ibox Ron http://www.bannerofliberty.com/
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Do-gooders will wreck the Internet
By Charles Cooper
Special to ZDNet
January 3, 2003, 5:32 AM PT
COMMENTARY--The do-gooders have found a new cause for 2003: Saving the Internet from the private interests intent on mucking up the cyber landscape.
Considering that 40 percent of all U.S. citizens have been online for more than three years and that most are able to find the information they seek when surfing the Web (according to a Dec. 29 Pew study on the Internet and American life) that's a curious cause.
No matter. This story line is going to get played out in the next 12 months and how it concludes will leave an indelible imprint on the future of the Internet.
The only surprise is that these folks took so long to get involved. In a world of nation-states, the pre-9/11 Internet era enjoyed a remarkably long run marked by self-regulation, decentralization and individual control. As the Web went global, I was sure policy-makers would move faster to bend the anarchistic nobody-owns-it philosophy of the Internet to their liking.
Public interest advocates are making up for lost time. Urging far more muscular government oversight and involvement, they are keen on making sure the public gets to represent its interest in the development of the Internet. One of the most articulate and forceful examples of the something-must-be-done mind-set was recently served up by Zoe Baird, president of the Markle Foundation.
In the December 2002 edition of the periodical Foreign Affairs, Baird argued that government's unique role elevates its importance as an institution for deciding "what public values need to be protected"--even when different governments do not necessarily share the same values.
Backing up her call to action, Baird cited the results of a survey conducted by the Markle Foundation prior to 9/11, which turned up a 2-to-1 preference among respondents for government management of rules to protect people, even if that required some regulation of the Internet.
So Baird favors the collaboration of international forums on IT along with multilateral government-sponsored agencies to find a way to allow for government oversight and regulation that would still be as "speedy, agile and technologically savvy as the medium demands." Because the Internet has gone mainstream, Baird concludes it is thus now up to "mainstream governmental institutions" to move in "to protect people from harm and encourage innovation."
Spoken like a true guardian of the common weal. After all, she was President Clinton's first Attorney General nominee. But as another former U.S. president was wont to say: Let me say this about that.
Baird's bureaucratic instincts lead her to trust in the ability of organizations like the G-8 Digital Opportunity Task Force and the U.N. Information and Communications Technologies Task Force to get things done and shape the Internet in a way that would create the most benefit.
The people staffing these agencies are hard-working and mean well. But technological innovation-through-committee-work is, at best, a hopeless laboratory concept. To be sure, the new realities of our times require some accommodation with the security and geopolitical environment, but putting government in the driver's seat is a mistake.
That's especially true when the governments in question are cyber scofflaws, such as Saudi Arabia and China, where the authorities block access to Web sites they don't like. In my mind, that should automatically disqualify them from participation in the formulation of policy that affects tens of millions of Internet users. But would any U.N. task force have the guts to make that sort of politically incorrect declaration? I don't think so.
The fact is we will never be able to ensure that all the private and public interests in the world are "fairly" represented. But it's a mistake to think about the Internet in terms of fairness in the first place. Do that and you invite the bureaucrats in to stultify the vitality that first created the World Wide Web.
Charles Cooper is the executive editor of commentary at CNET News.com.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-979028.html
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http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itgic/1097/ijge/gj-7.htm
KEEP BIG BROTHER'S HANDS OFF THE INTERNET
By Senator John Ashcroft
Republican, Missouri
Chairman of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce and Tourism
[Senator Ashcroft takes issue with administration views on the Internet
and the use of encryption technology.]
We are seeing a national phenomenon where, in the name of protecting national security against a new and subtle danger, there is a massive effort to eliminate protections for political protest," said Donna Lieberman, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. "These safeguards were put in place in the aftermath of a documented history of systematic spying, infiltration and dirty tricks by police agencies and the FBI."
The New York case involves a consent decree signed in 1985, settling a federal class-action lawsuit originally brought by criminal defense lawyers in 1971. The decree prohibits police from photographing and carrying out surveillance of political demonstrations. To infiltrate lawful political and social organizations, police must establish a suspicion of criminal activity and gain the permission of a special three-person authority.
This three-person authority consists of two high-ranking police officials and a civilian appointed by the mayor. Civil libertarians argue this is hardly an onerous burden for law enforcement.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51934-2002Nov28.html
Bush ramps up cybersecurity funding
New federal spending will encourage research
Nov. 27 — President Bush signed into law a measure that will almost quadruple federal spending by 2007 on computer security research, reflecting the heightened interest Washington has taken in the issue over the past year. The law aims to create a cadre of cybersecurity experts able to guard against attacks like the one that disabled nine of the 13 computers that underpin the Internet’s domain-name system last month.
THE LAW MEANS federal spending will increase from its current annual level of about $60 million to $111 million next year, ramping up to $231 million in 2007.
The law earmarks $903 million over five years for grants, scholarships and other incentives for long-term cybersecurity research.
Hacks, Viruses & Scams
• Victoria's Secret customers exposed
• Would bandwidth caps slow swaps?
• Novel crackdown on file-sharing
The issue has been pushed to the fore as a series of destabilizing worms and viruses have spread across the Internet, disrupting traffic and causing millions of dollars in damage.
Congressional reports, meanwhile, have revealed gaping security holes in government systems that oversee both national defense and millions of dollars in funds.
Experts have told Congress that online attacks could possibly shut down power plants, telephone networks and other “critical infrastructures” that have moved their control systems online.
Is a larget Net attack on the way?
While commercial software companies such as Microsoft Corp. have recently devoted more effort to patching their products, experts say the government should do more to encourage fundamental long-term research. U.S. universities only awarded 28 doctorates in the field last year.
The National Science Foundation and the National Institute for Standards and Technology will hand out the money in the form of research grants, fellowships and internships for students, and funds to improve undergraduate and masters-degree programs in network security.
It also will set up a program to increase the number of college-level cybersecurity instructors, and direct the National Institute for Standards to help federal officials secure their systems.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/840752.asp?0si=-
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-Oscar Wilde,
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LMAO ergo,That was good and so true if all of this comes to pass,,I think I will build that cabin up in the mountains, I was thinking about........
Rick...
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-Oscar Wilde,
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Goodbye to Privacy
If you think I'm exaggerating out of paranoid hysteria or simple
anti-Bush venom, just examine the recently passed Homeland Security Act
and the USA PATRIOT Act (the latter of which was rushed through Congress
a few days after 9/11 without most legislators having had a chance to
read it). As a result of these acts and other executive fiats, as of
this moment there no longer is a guaranteed right to privacy for any
citizen.
Your home, your business, your computer files, your emails, your library
visits, your credit-card purchases, your phone calls, your
communications to your friends and colleagues -- in short, just about
every aspect of your life now belongs to the federal government. (Where,
oh where, were all the anti-big-government conservatives? Oh, I forgot:
They now have the power and can drop their principles off at the moral
cleaners. It's OK to have a Big Brother government snooping on all its
citizens -- except, of course, when it comes to who might own assault
rifles and other heavy-duty weaponry, which Ashcroft has ruled the feds
can't go near -- as long as you're the Brother in charge. If Gore had
won and tried to carry on these police-state tactics, there would be a
rousing GOP outcry for impeachment. It all depends, I guess, on whose
Gore is being oxed.)
But, you say, none of this affects me. I've never done or thought
anything traitorous, and I don't have a Middle Eastern name, so I don't
have to worry. Doesn't matter. A ticked-off neighbor or colleague at
work denounces you to the authorities as insufficiently patriotic or as
engaging in "suspicious behavior" -- even though you've done or said
nothing wrong -- and you've got a file opened on you. The security
police begin nosing around, and suddenly you don't have a job anymore.
Or you are classified as a suspected "enemy combatant" and are locked
away on a military base, with no contact permitted, no lawyer permitted,
no judicial oversight permitted.
(Though Bush and Ashcroft promised, prior to the passage of the USA
Patriot Act, that the bill referred only to non-citizens and that
nothing like that would ever happen to Americans, it already has. In the
future, there may well be more citizens "disappeared" into the American
gulag; all it takes is a piece of paper signed by Ashcroft, with no
appeal process permitted. Welcome to the brave new world of permanent
war, permanent insecurity, permanent martial-type law.)
Friends, as some of us have been warning for more than a year now, we no
longer are inching toward a kind of fascism in this country. We're just
about there. Using legitimate post-9/11 fear in the citizenry, Bush&Co.
have been able to shred Constitutional guarantees of due process and
rush these draconian acts through Congress; aside from a few courageous
leaders on the conservative right and those of us on the civil
libertarian left, few have objected. Americans, it seems, are quite
willing to trade their several-hundred-years-old rights for the illusion
of "security."
Email,,,,,no link........
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[6] California Passes Database Privacy Legislation
=======================================================================
A new law in California requires state agencies and businesses that
own databases to disclose security breaches involving certain personal
information. The bill comes in response to an April 2002 incident in
which the records of over 200,000 state employees were accessed by a
computer cracker. The California legislation exceeds federal
protections, as there is no national requirement for notice to
individuals when personal information is accessed without
authorization.
Senate Bill 1386, sponsored by Senator Steve Peace (D-El Cajon),
creates a notice requirement where there has been an unauthorized
acquisition of an individual's name along with a Social Security
Number, a driver's license number, or an account number and
corresponding access code. The notice requirement is also triggered
when there is a reasonable belief that a security breach occurred.
Notice must be given "in the most expedient time," but may be delayed
where it would impede a criminal investigation.
The law requires notice to be given to individuals in writing or
electronically, in accordance with federal e-signature law. If the
cost of notice were to exceed $250,000, or where over 500,000 people
were affected by the security breach, notice could be delivered
through a combination of e-mail, a conspicuous posting on the agency
or company Web site, and notification of statewide media outlets.
Agencies and companies could also create information security policies
in advance of security breaches to address the notice requirement.
The law does not apply to non-computerized files, such as personal
data stored on paper. Also, only California residents enjoy the law's
protections. Californians can bring civil actions for damages and
injunctive relief against entities that fail to comply with the law.
The law takes effect on July 1, 2003.
Senator Peace has been a longtime state leader on privacy. As early
as 1996, he attempted to pass a comprehensive information privacy bill
in California.
Senate Bill 1386:
http://www.epic.org/redirect/sb1386.html
Rick...
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-Thomas Jefferson
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[1] Public Protest Over Pentagon Surveillance System Mounts
=======================================================================
The Pentagon's proposed "Total Information Awareness" (TIA)
surveillance system is coming under increasing attack. In an open
letter sent yesterday, a coalition of over 30 civil liberties groups
urged Senators Thomas Daschle (D-SD) and Trent Lott (R-MS) to "act
immediately to stop the development of this unconstitutional system of
public surveillance." Newspapers across the country have written
editorials castigating the program. The New York Times has said that
"Congress should shut down the program pending a thorough
investigation." The Washington Post wrote, "The defense secretary
should appoint an outside committee to oversee it before it proceeds."
William Safire's recent column, which played a major role in igniting
the public outcry, called the surveillance system "a supersnooper's
dream."
The TIA project is part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA)'s Information Awareness Office, headed by John
Poindexter. The surveillance system purports to capture a person's
"information signature" so that the government can track potential
terrorists and criminals involved in "low-intensity/low-density"
forms of warfare and crime. The goal of the system is to track
individuals by collecting as much information about them as possible
and using computer algorithms and human analysis to detect potential
activity. The project calls for the development of "revolutionary
technology for ultra-large all-source information repositories," which
would contain information from multiple sources to create a "virtual,
centralized, grand database." This database would be populated by
transaction data contained in current databases, such as financial
records, medical records, communication records, and travel records,
as well as new sources of information. Intelligence data would also
be fed into the database.
A key component of the project is the development of data mining or
knowledge discovery tools that will sift through the massive amount
of information to find patterns and associations. The surveillance
plan will also improve the power of search tools such as Project
Genoa, which Poindexter's former employer Syntek Technologies
assisted in developing. The Defense Department aims to fund the
development of more such tools and data mining technology to help
analysts understand and even "preempt" future action. A further
crucial component is the development of biometric technology to
enable the identification and tracking of individuals. DARPA has
already funded its "Human ID at a Distance" program, which aims to
positively identify people from a distance through technologies such
as face recognition and gait recognition. A nationwide
identification system might also be of great assistance to such a
project by providing an easy means to track individuals across
multiple information sources.
The initial plan calls for a five year research project into these
various technologies. According to the announcement soliciting
industry proposals, the interim goal is to build "leave-behind
prototypes with a limited number of proof-of-concept demonstrations
in extremely high risk, high payoff areas." The FBI and the
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) are also working on data
mining projects that will merge commercial databases, public
databases, and intelligence data. Documents obtained by EPIC through
the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) show that the developers of the
new passenger profiling system in the TSA held meetings with
Poindexter's team earlier this year. EPIC is currently involved in a
FOIA lawsuit to obtain documents from the Information Awareness
Office.
The coalition's letter to Senators Daschle and Lott is available at:
http://www.epic.org/privacy/profiling/tia/tialetter11.18.02.html
EPIC's Total Information Awareness Page:
http://www.epic.org/privacy/profiling/tia/
Information Awareness Office's Total Information Awareness project
description:
http://www.darpa.mil/iao/TIASystems.htm
Email........no link.........
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Welcome to the board Zeev, if you'll read me post to ergo you'll see that in a round about way I totally agree with your thoughts!
Ron
To begin with ergo I think the government needs the bill to combat terrorist as quickly and as effectively as possible. Thereby saving lives! Unfortunately for us all it is human nature to abuse almost everything we touch or create. This new law will not become an exception to the unfortunate characteristics of humans. It also seems to me that as a species we tend to ignore that which causes us an inconvenience, such as creating another law that would prevent such abuse.
Thank you for your concern, it seems that Christ gives us all challenges and if He intends for me to win out over this I will, but only if it is His will.
Ron
After hours coming up on cnbc with valerie Bartaromo[correctspelling]?? is going to be talking about spying on the terror dudes while not messing with our civil liberties....Should be interesting.....
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You fight terrorism the "old fashioned way", with directed infiltration of terrorists organizations with moles, not by giving the government a blank check to snoop on the guilty and the innocent alike. You have a legitimate target for eaves dropping? You present your argument to a judge and he'll authorize or will not authorize such. Safire is absolutely right. Before you know it, those that want to protect the liberties of our citizenry will be the first targets of such spying.
Zeev
Muell
Under the Patriot Act the government can do all this, which I do not support, nor do I think it is necessary.
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/Terrorism_militias/20011031_eff_usa_patriot_analysis.html
Now in their "secret courts" the government is being given the right to use that illegal information to prosecute. They now can not only tap YOUR connections but should they decide they can now prosecute YOU with the information they obtain. Perhaps you see this as merely the ability to track "terrorist" I do not.
Here is the ACLU's responce today.
Ergo Sum
PS Sorry to hear about your "condition", I can only hope the medical community is up to this challenge. I know some others with the same problem.
More of the Big Brother than I care for Ergo, but how else do we fight terrorism?
Ron
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A special, secretive appeals court on Monday said the U.S. government has the right to use expanded powers to wiretap terrorism suspects under a law adopted by Congress after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The ruling was seen as a setback for civil libertarians who have said the expanded powers, which allow greater leeway in conducting electronic surveillance and in using information obtained from the wiretaps and searches, jeopardize constitutional rights.
In a 56-page ruling overturning a May opinion by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the three-judge appeals court panel said the Patriot Act gave the government the right to expanded powers.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=VV0M4ZOOR3JIQCRBAEOCFFA?type=topNews&storyID...
I would just like to point out that this is the Homeland Security Act he is talking about.
"If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage, here is what will happen to you:"
Be Well
Ergo Sum
BIG BROTHER READY TO SPY ON YOU, YOUR COMPANY?
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/14/opinion/14SAFI.html
William Safire says it's worse than Orwellian, and it's "now."
William Safire is no screaming liberal or even liberterian. In fact he started his career writing speeches for Spiro Agnew.
So it's a cause for alarm when Safire takes pen to warn of an impending 'Big Brother' law that could result in full-time, round-the-clock spying on "every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend — all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as 'a virtual, centralized grand database'."
"To this computerized dossier on your private life from commercial sources, add every piece of information that government has about you — passport application, driver's license and bridge toll records, judicial and divorce records, complaints from nosy neighbors to the F.B.I., your lifetime paper trail plus the latest hidden camera surveillance — and you have the supersnoop's dream: a "Total Information Awareness" about every U.S. citizen," warns Safire.
For companies it could be even worse.
"This is not some far-out Orwellian scenario. It is what will happen to your personal freedom in the next few weeks if John Poindexter gets the unprecedented power he seeks," Safire warns.
"Remember Poindexter?" asks Safire. "Brilliant man, first in his class at the Naval Academy, later earned a doctorate in physics, rose to national security adviser under President Ronald Reagan. He had this brilliant idea of secretly selling missiles to Iran to pay ransom for hostages, and with the illicit proceeds to illegally support contras in Nicaragua.
"A jury convicted Poindexter in 1990 on five felony counts of misleading Congress and making false statements, but an appeals court overturned the verdict because Congress had given him immunity for his testimony. He famously asserted, "The buck stops here," arguing that the White House staff, and not the president, was responsible for fateful decisions that might prove embarrassing.
"This ring-knocking master of deceit is back again with a plan even more scandalous than Iran-contra. He heads the 'Information Awareness Office' in the otherwise excellent Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which spawned the Internet and stealth aircraft technology. Poindexter is now realizing his 20-year dream: getting the "data-mining" power to snoop on every public and private act of every American.
"Even the hastily passed U.S.A. Patriot Act, which widened the scope of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and weakened 15 privacy laws, raised requirements for the government to report secret eavesdropping to Congress and the courts. But Poindexter's assault on individual privacy rides roughshod over such oversight.
"He is determined to break down the wall between commercial snooping and secret government intrusion. The disgraced admiral dismisses such necessary differentiation as bureaucratic 'stovepiping.' And he has been given a $200 million budget to create computer dossiers on 300 million Americans (and presumably the companies they run or work for).
"When George W. Bush was running for president, he stood foursquare in defense of each person's medical, financial and communications privacy," notes Safire. "But Poindexter, whose contempt for the restraints of oversight drew the Reagan administration into its most serious blunder, is still operating on the presumption that on such a sweeping theft of privacy rights, the buck ends with him and not with the president.
"This time, however, he has been seizing power in the open. In the past week John Markoff of The Times, followed by Robert O'Harrow of The Washington Post, have revealed the extent of Poindexter's operation, but editorialists have not grasped its undermining of the Freedom of Information Act.
"Political awareness can overcome 'Total Information Awareness,' the combined force of commercial and government snooping. In a similar overreach, Attorney General Ashcroft tried his Terrorism Information and Prevention System (TIPS), but public outrage at the use of gossips and postal workers as snoops caused the House to shoot it down. The Senate should now do the same to this other exploitation of fear."
Safire notes that the Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads 'Scientia Est Potentia' — "knowledge is power." Exactly, says Safire: "the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you."
"We're just as concerned as the next person with protecting privacy," this brilliant mind blandly assured The Post. "A jury found he spoke falsely before," concludes Safire.
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What do you think about making Sept 11 an "off day" for work?
In general, I agree with others on the thread who have suggested a moment of silence -- because it would take the folks on Madison Avenue about 10 seconds to figure out how to make 9/11 into another shopping holiday. The beginning of the Christmas season, perhaps--?
The one "9/11 Holiday" scenario I would consider supporting is if we change the Constitution to make 9/11 into election day.
Well our 70 mph winds have let up, and might see a little sun today, but I am not going to bet on it, 49.9 outside my window right now,,,,,,Be working in my shop today, replacing the valvetrain on a beboop VW......
Rick...
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Hey, Matt, I would love to go head to head with you, I do favors the ACLU.... Why don't you, it is an organization created to protect the constitution from abuse, mostly by the government.
Zeev
Ergo, I second that, no holiday, but a minute of silence every 9/11 at around 8:45 AM (if memory serves, when the first plane hit).
Zeev
Good Morning Rick, we got sun and 60 degrees here, looks like a beautiful day. Hope you have better or same!
Ron
Good morning Muell, and I like what is on top of your shoulders ,,,,,,,You are an inspiration,to folks and to me,,,,,Keep the faith buddy..............
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How much music can you make?
On November 18, 1995, Itzhak Perlman, the violinist, came on stage to give a concert at Lincoln Center in New York City. If you have ever been to a Perlman concert, you know that getting on stage is no small achievement for him. He was stricken with polio as a child, and has braces on both legs and walks with the aid of two crutches. To see him walk across the stage one step at the time, painfully and slowly, is a sight. He walks with difficulty, yet majestically, until he reaches his chair. Then he sits down, slowly, puts his crutches on the floor, undoes the braces and clasps on his legs, tucks one foot back and extends the other foot forward. Then he bends down and picks up his violin, puts it under his chin, nods to the conductor and proceeds to play. By now, the audience is used to this ritual. They sit quietly while he makes his way across the stage to his chair. They remain silent while he undoes the clasps on his legs, they wait until he is ready to play. But this time, something went wrong. Just as he finished the first few bars, one of the strings on his violin broke. You could hear it snap -- it went off like gunfire across the room. There was no mistaking what he had to do. People who were there that night thought to themselves, "We figured that he would have to get up, put on the clasps again, pick up the crutches and limp his way off the stage to find another violin or else find another string for this one, or wait for someone to bring him another violin. But he didn't. Instead he waited a moment, closed his eyes and then signaled the conductor to begin again. The orchestra began, and he played from where he had left off. And he played with such passion and such power and such purity, as they had never heard before. Of course, anyone knows that it is impossible to play a symphonic work with just three strings. I know that, you know that. But that night Itzhak Perlman refused to know that. You could see him modulating, changing and recomposing the piece in his head. At one point it sounded like he was de-tuning the strings to get new sounds from them that they had never made before.When he finished, there was an awesome silence in the room. And then people rose and cheered.
There was an extraordinary outburst of applause from every corner of the auditorium. Everyone was on their feet, screaming and cheering, doing everything they could to show how much they appreciated what he had done. He smiled, wiped the sweat from his brow, raised his bow to quiet the audience, and not boastfully, but in a quiet reverent tone said,
"YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IT IS THE ARTIST'S TASK TO FIND OUT HOW MUCH MUSIC YOU CAN STILL MAKE WITH WHAT YOU HAVE LEFT."
What a powerful line that is. And who knows? Perhaps that is the way of life -- not just for an artist but for all of us. Here is a man who has prepared all his life to make music on a violin with four strings, who all of a sudden, in the middle of a concert, finds himself with only three strings and the music he made that night with just three strings was more beautiful, more sacred, more memorable, than any that he had ever made before.
So perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live, is to make music, at first with all that we have, and then when that is no longer possible, to make music with what we have left. In this year where so much has been taken from us all, let us stop for a moment and think how we can make beautiful music with what we have left.
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I found this to be particulary inspiring for me as it touches home more than I like to admit. This year I was diagnosed to have Post Polio Syndrome. For those of you that do not know, PPS is a degenerative disease that affects the nerves that control muscles. To this date a cure is not yet available. I was two years old when I contracted Polio the first time and it severely affected my right shoulder, arm, and leg. There were several corrective surgeries in my early years, but by the sixth grade I was playing football, baseball, and basketball for my school. I lettered in basketball during the eigth grade. Between High school and college I worked as a salesman presenting waterless cookware to single working females between the ages of 18 to 35 for a company by the name of The HyCite Corp. This was a great job and I met a lot a very attractive women, but what surprised me more than anything was the number of these women that admitted to have interest in me. At the job I had to develop my own leads and then make appointments to display the cookware to the gals. HyCite was a small nationwide company that had thirty five representatives and in the first month I was able to win their Top Newcomer Award by selling 11 sets of cookware.
My purpose of this post is to inspire and to make it clear to all that the most important thing in life is your own attitude about it!
Ron
LOL, I'll bet thier mom wishes they slept the same hours. Kelle has collic and spends a lot of time telling mom and everybody else about it. Kyle is the quiet one so far.
Ron
Oh so they sleep at the same time.
We had exactly the opposite problem. One would sleep, the other would be awake. Repeat night after night.
No not identical, but the doctor has told thier mom that they will be hard to tell apart very soon. Except for thier personalities they are already very close to identicle.
Ron
Pass it on Muell. It can only help.
Everything in my life is twins. Both my parents, my kids. My favorite question about my children, who are boy girl twins was always "Are they identical?"
Be Well
Ergo Sum
Thats pretty scary ergo, but thanks for bringing it to my attention. Yes, we had twin boys delivered last September 12, both are doing fine and have grown to look so much alike that only their parents know which is which. At birth they were almost a pound in difference in weight, now only 2 ounces.
Ron
Muell
I have this vague memory that you recently had a grand child. I think it was you. I though I would pass this on anyway.
My understanding is that many of these vaccines can be spaced out over longer periods of time and thus avoid the problems. Something at least anyone with a young child should discuss with the Pediatrician.
And then suddenly in June 1999, during a visit to the Food and Drug Administration, a squall appeared on the horizon of Halsey's confidence. Halsey attended a meeting to discuss thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative that at the time was being used in several vaccines -- including the hepatitis B shot that Halsey had fought so hard to have administered to American babies. By the time the dust kicked up in that meeting had settled, Halsey would be forced to reckon with the hypothesis that thimerosal had damaged the brains of immunized infants and may have contributed to the unexplained explosion in the number of cases of autism being diagnosed in children.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/10/magazine/10AUTISM.html
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Ergo Sum
Am I reading this one right??? If so,,,,,,,,,,,,BULLCHIT, i say,,,,,
H.R.5457 Judicial Code of Conduct Privacy Clarification Act. To amend
the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to exempt attorneys from the privacy
provisions of that Act. Sponsor: Rep Biggert, Judy (R-IL). Committees:
House Financial Services Latest Major Action: 10/7/2002 Referred to
House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial
Institutions and Consumer Credit.
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[6] EPIC Bill-Track: New Bills in Congress
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*House*
H.R.5387 To make needed reforms in the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep Conyers, John, Jr.
(D-MA) Committees: House Judiciary; House Government Reform Latest
Major Action: 10/7/2002 Referred to House subcommittee. Status:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland
Security.
H.R.5424 Identity Theft Victims Assistance Act of 2002. To prevent the
crime of identity theft, mitigate the harm to individuals victimized
by identity theft, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep Smith, Adam.
(D-WA). Committees: House Judiciary; House Financial Services Latest
Major Action: 10/7/2002 Referred to House subcommittee. Status:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland
Security.
H.R.5457 Judicial Code of Conduct Privacy Clarification Act. To amend
the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to exempt attorneys from the privacy
provisions of that Act. Sponsor: Rep Biggert, Judy (R-IL). Committees:
House Financial Services Latest Major Action: 10/7/2002 Referred to
House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial
Institutions and Consumer Credit.
H.R.5474 Identity Theft Consumer Notification Act. To amend the
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to further protect customers of financial
institutions whose identities are stolen from the financial
institution, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep Kleczka, Gerald D.
(D-WA). Committees: House Financial Services Latest Major Action:
10/7/2002 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the
Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
H.R.5503 National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act
of 2002. To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish an
electronic system for practitioner monitoring of the dispensing of any
schedule II, III, or IV controlled substance, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Whitfield, Ed (R-KY). Committees: House Energy and
Commerce Latest Major Action: 10/8/2002 Referred to House
subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
H.R.5522 Digital Choice and Freedom Act of 2002. To amend title 17,
United States Code, to safeguard the rights and expectations of
consumers who lawfully obtain digital entertainment. Sponsor: Rep
Lofgren, Zoe (D-CA). Committees: House Judiciary Latest Major Action:
10/2/2002 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House
Committee on the Judiciary.
H.R.5524 Global Internet Freedom Act. To develop and deploy
technologies to defeat Internet jamming and censorship. Sponsor: Rep
Cox, Christopher (R-CA). Committees: House International Relations.
Latest Major Action: 10/2/2002 Referred to House committee. Status:
Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
H.R.5544 Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act of 2002. To amend the
Federal Trade Commission Act to provide that the advertising or sale
of a mislabeled copy-protected music disc is an unfair method of
competition and an unfair and deceptive act or practice, and for other
purposes. Sponsor: Rep Boucher, Rick (D-VA). Committees: House Energy
and Commerce; House Judiciary Latest Major Action: 10/8/2002 Referred
to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on
Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
H.R.5588 Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002. To amend
title 18, United States Code, to establish penalties for aggravated
identity theft, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep Gekas, George W.
(R-PA). Committees: House Judiciary. Latest Major Action: 10/9/2002
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee
on the Judiciary.
H.R.5613 Children's Mental Health Screening and Prevention Act of
2002. To establish a demonstration project to implement evidence-based
preventive-screening methods to detect mental illness and suicidal
tendencies in school-age youth at selected facilities. Sponsor: Rep
DeLauro, Rosa L. (D-CT). Committees: House Energy and Commerce; House
Education and the Workforce. Latest Major Action: 10/10/2002 Referred
to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Energy and
Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the
Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker,
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the
jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
H.R.5646 Stop Taking Our Health Privacy (STOHP) Act of 2002. To
restore standards to protect the privacy of individually identifiable
health information that were weakened by the August 2002
modifications, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep Markey, Edward J.
(D-MA). Committees: House Energy and Commerce; House Ways and Means;
House Education and the Workforce Latest Major Action: 10/16/2002
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on
Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and
Means, and Education and the Workforce, for a period to be
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration
of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee
concerned.
*Senate*
S.2917 Comprehensive Child Protection Act of 2002. A bill to enhance
national efforts to investigate, prosecute, and prevent crimes against
children by increasing investigatory tools, criminal penalties, and
resources and by extending existing laws. Sponsor: Sen Hatch, Orrin G.
(R-UT). Latest Major Action: 9/10/2002 Referred to Senate committee.
Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Committees: Senate Judiciary.
S.2949 Aviation Security Improvement Act. A bill to provide for
enhanced aviation security, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen
Hollings, Ernest F. (D-SC). Committees: Senate Commerce, Science, and
Transportation Latest Major Action: 9/30/2002 Senate preparation for
floor. Status: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General
Orders. Calendar No. 623.
S.2956 Intelligence Gathering Act of 2002. A bill to require the
Secretary of Homeland Security to submit a semi-annual report to
Congress regarding the effectiveness with which information is
exchanged between the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, and State and local law enforcement
authorities. Sponsor: Sen Feingold, Russell D. (D-WI). Committees:
Senate Judiciary Latest Major Action: 9/18/2002 Referred to Senate
committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary.
S.3033 National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act of
2002. A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish an
electronic system for practitioner monitoring of the dispensing of any
schedule II, III, or IV controlled substance, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Hutchinson, Tim (D-AR). Committees: Senate Health,
Education, Labor, and Pensions Latest Major Action: 10/2/2002 Referred
to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee
on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
S.3064 Health Records Confidentiality Act of 2002. A bill to prohibit
the use of patient databases for marketing without the express consent
of the patient. Sponsor: Sen Nelson, Bill (D-FL). Committees: Senate
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Latest Major Action: 10/7/2002
Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
S.3093 Global Internet Freedom Act. A bill to develop and deploy
technologies to defeat Internet jamming and censorship. Sponsor: Sen
Wyden, Ron (D-OR). Committees: Senate Commerce, Science, and
Transportation Latest Major Action: 10/10/2002 Referred to Senate
committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on
Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
S.3100 Social Security Number Misuse Prevention Act of 2002. A bill to
amend title 18, United States Code, to limit the misuse of social
security numbers, to establish criminal penalties for such misuse, and
for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen Feinstein, Dianne (D-CA). Latest
Major Action: 10/15/2002 Senate preparation for floor. Status: Read
the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General
Orders. Calendar No. 707.
S.3107 Driver's License Fraud Prevention Act. A bill to improve the
security of State-issued driver's licenses, enhance highway safety,
verify personal identity, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen Durbin,
Richard J. (D-IL). Committees: Senate Commerce, Science, and
Transportation Latest Major Action: 10/10/2002 Referred to Senate
committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on
Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
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[4] GAO Releases Report on Government Use of Personal Information
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The United States General Accounting Office (GAO) recently released a
report prepared for the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs that
reviews how selected agencies handle personal information provided by
members of the public to obtain government services. The report
examines in detail how personal information collected through four
representative forms (from four different federal agencies) was
treated, and whether requirements under the Privacy Act and the
Computer Matching Act were appropriately followed. The four forms
were the Education Department's student aid request form, the
Department of Agriculture's standard loan form for farmers, the
Department of Labor's federal worker's compensation form, and a
passport application from the State Department. The report concludes
that, "Overall, agencies collected a substantial amount of personal
information of a wide variety of types, including personal[ly]
identifying information (names and Social Security numbers) and
demographic, financial, and legal data." It found that the procedures
for handling personal information collected were complex, involving
numerous processes, and that a wide range of personnel has access to
the information. In addition, the personal information collected was
shared extensively with other government entities, private
individuals, and organizations following "authorized procedures."
The Department of Education's Free Application for Federal Student Aid
(FAFSA), filled out by a large number of students every year, is one
example of personal information being widely shared among different
agencies and entities under the "routine use" exemption of the Privacy
Act. For example, the Education Department gives information on
financial aid applicants to the Justice Department to see if they have
been convicted of any drug-related offenses; to the Department of
Veterans Affairs to check a veteran's eligibility status for student
aid; to the Selective Service System to make sure a male applicant has
registered for the draft; and to the Immigration and Naturalization
Service to see if an applicant is eligible for federal benefits. If an
applicant is delinquent on a federal loan, the application information
is sent to a private collection bureau. The Education Department also
sends the student's personal financial information to state agencies
to coordinate student aid. To qualify as a routine use, the agency
simply has to announce the use in the Federal Register.
A review of the report reinforces the need for more substantive
privacy practices beyond the formal notice requirements of the Privacy
Act of 1974 and the Computer Matching Act of 1988. The bi-partisan
Federal Agency Protection of Privacy bill (H.R. 4561), which passed
the House and is currently pending in the Senate, would require
agencies to conduct privacy impact analyses before and after passing
regulations concerning personal information. Commentators have also
suggested bringing the Privacy Act up-to-date to cover the new and
more intrusive types of information sharing and collection conducted
by federal agencies.
GAO Report, "Selected Agencies' Handling of Personal Information,"
available at:
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d021058.pdf
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