Danielle Keats Citron has an article in the March issue of the George Washington Law Review, “Fulfilling Government 2.0’s Promise with Robust Privacy Protections.” The abstract: The public can now friend the White House and scores of agencies on social networks, virtual worlds, and video-sharing sites. The Obama Administration sees this trend as crucial to…
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First Private Lawsuit Challenging ObamaCare Filed in Mississippi
A privacy-themed lawsuit. K. Douglas Lee writes: Mississippi State Senator Chris McDaniel and I have filed a class action lawsuit today, Good Friday 2010, challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as “ObamaCare” and a variety of other less polite euphemisms. From the complaint: Moreover, compelling Plaintiffs to enter…
Personal traits will be used to screen U.S.-bound air passengers
David S. Cloud reports: The Obama administration will announce Friday a new screening system for flights to the United States under which passengers who fit an intelligence profile of potential terrorists will be searched before boarding their planes, a senior administration official said. The procedures, which have been approved by President Obama, are aimed at…
TSA Concedes Body Scanners Store and Record Images
After many denials, it seems that TSA has finally acknowledged that airport scanners can store body images. From EPIC: In response to a Congressional inquiry, led by Congressman Bennie Thompson, the Transportation Security Agency acknowledged that images on body scanner machines would be recorded for “testing, training, and evaluation purposes.” The TSA also did not dispute…