Coming up in the House Judiciary Committee on March 9: Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security 1:30 p.m. in the 2141 Rayburn House Office Building Hearing on: “The Reauthorization of the PATRIOT Act”
Category: Laws
IRS data: Privacy rights vs. finding the missing kids
Jeremy Herb reports on another “balancing” discussion going on in Congress that also includes discussion of potential for abuse if privacy laws are relaxed for what we could all probably agree is a good purpose: Federal Treasury officials looking at missing children cases and tax returns found something odd: Of the more than 1,700 cases…
UK: Protections of freedom bill under scrutiny
Adam Wagner writes: The Protection of Freedoms Bill received its second reading in Parliament yesterday, followed by debate. The bill will have significant implications for civil liberties, although some of the changes, such as those relating to the retention of DNA, the reduction of child protection police checks, and police stop and search, have arisen…
NH Bill Would Make Some Airport Screening Sexual Assault
Lawmakers and residents engaged in heated debate Tuesday over a bill that would make random airport security pat-downs and body scans criminal in New Hampshire. The bill (HB628-FN) “makes the touching or viewing with a technological device of a person’s breasts or genitals by a government security agent without probable cause a sexual assault,” according…