Ellen Nakashima reports: The Obama administration wants to maintain the secrecy of terrorist watch-list information it routinely shares with federal, state and local agencies, a move that rights groups say would make it difficult for people who have been improperly included on such lists to challenge the government. Intelligence officials in the administration are pressing…
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China web sites requiring users’ names
Jonathan Ansfield reports: News Web sites in China, complying with secret government orders, are requiring that new users log on under their true identities to post comments, a shift in policy that the country’s Internet users and media have fiercely opposed in the past. Until recently, users could weigh in on news items on many…
Grade the Obama administration’s work on privacy!
From EFF: The Privacy Coalition is inviting the public to give the Obama Administration a grade on its privacy work thus far. Visit the Privacy Report Card page and vote to give the administration a grade anywhere from an “A” to an “F” — or, if you prefer, an “Incomplete.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/grade-obama-administrations Direct link to consumer…
Should public housing residents be drug tested?
I had met Shirley Newsome a couple of times before she got up and spoke at the public comment hearing Tuesday evening. It wasn’t a surprise to me that she was there. Shirley Newsome is the definition of being involved in her community, and the hearing allowed people to comment on a new plan for…