Tagged: Civil Liberties and Advocacy Efforts

Reuters on Philadelphia council condemns Patriot Act: Philadelphia on Thursday became the largest U.S. city to date to condemn the USA Patriot Act as a threat to the constitutional rights of its citizens. By...

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 your hand or the...

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 of the University of...

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 of Declan McCullagh. This...

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, Lisa was a tireless...

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 of a massive computer...

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.) and Ranking Member John...

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. 11, the report shows...

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 some lawmakers as an...