Michael Kirkland of UPI reports: Americans are facing the prospect, some say the specter, of a national ID card. At least one civil liberties advocate warns the proposed card would bring government “into the very center of our lives.” The card — part of a much larger Democratic proposal in Congress for immigration reform revealed…
Category: Govt
Mikulski presses for more NSA web powers
Josh Gerstein writes: Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) is pressing the Obama Administration to give the National Security Agency more power to oversee the privately-owned portions of the Internet. During an appropriations hearing Thursday, Mikulski pressed Attorney General Eric Holder for answers about legal opinions the government may be drafting to address the extent to which…
Library of Congress Responds To Privacy Gripes By Making Twitter Archive Less Useful
Karl Bode writes: We recently noted how the Library Of Congress and Twitter made a big deal of the fact that the LOC would now be archiving Twitter conversations. The idea is that researchers may find a mountain of largely-incoherent blathering about the Twilight films useful in providing context as they try to piece together…
Data transfers to USA: Parliament states its terms
From the EU Parliament: MEPs voted on two resolutions in Brussels today, one on the opening of negotiations for an EU-US agreement to provide the US Treasury Department with bank data to combat terrorism, the other on the launch of negotiations for Passenger Name Record (PNR) agreements with the United States, Australia and Canada, also…