Tag: Civil Liberties and Advocacy Efforts

NCPA on Biometrics May be Impractical: Biometrics — the statistical study of biological phenomenon such as the shape of your face, the minutiae of your fingertips, the bone structure of […]

Paul Rosenzweig of The Heritage Foundation on Balancing liberty and security: …fears of a police state are overblown. We're merely witnessing a recurring pattern in American history. Professor Geoffrey Stone […]

Lee Tien, Senior Staff Attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation has written a review of the DARPA report to Congress on TIA. Click here to read the review. Link courtesy […]

Lisa Dean of the Free Congress Foundation (FCF) is moving on to work at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Through her work at FCF and with the Coalition for Constitutional Liberties, […]

Ariana Eunjung Cha of The Washington Post on Pentagon Details New Surveillance System: Critics Fear Proposed Extensive Use of Computer Database Raises Privacy Issues The Pentagon yesterday detailed the development […]

Yesterday, the House Committee on the Judiciary released the answers it received from repeated requests for information from the Justice Department: House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-Wis.) […]

Dan Eggen of The Washington Post on Anti-Terror Power Used Broadly: Laws Invoked Against Crimes Unrelated to Terror, Report Says: Although the Patriot Act was passed in response to Sept. […]

Audrey Hudson of The Washington Times on Hill assumes oversight role on airline screening: Congress has given itself special oversight authority to track a new airline screening process criticized by […]

Richard Lacayo writing for Time Magazine on The War Comes Back Home: On Thursday, Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee defeated a White House attempt to give the CIA and […]