Larry Neumeister reports: A civil rights lawyer asked a federal appeals court Friday to restore a lawsuit challenging a law that lets the United States eavesdrop on overseas conversations. A government lawyer disagreed, saying a lower court got it right. The verbal tug-of-war proceeded before a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of…
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Broad Coalition Urges President Obama And Congress To Oppose Biometric National ID
From an ACLU press release: A broad coalition of groups today sent a letter to the White House, the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee urging them to oppose a proposal by Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) that would include a biometric…
Md. law limits military recruitment of high school students
Michael Birnbaum reports: Maryland schools will no longer forward scores from a popular vocational test to military recruiters under new legislation that requires high school students to send the information themselves. The test, the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, or ASVAB, is administered by the military in schools across the country as a public service…
EPIC v. Homeland Security: Government has Over 2,000 Photos from Airport Body Scanners
From EPIC.org, via a helpful site reader: As a result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, EPIC has obtained hundreds of pages of documents from the Department of Homeland Security about the plan to deploy full body scanners in US airports. A letter to EPIC reveals that the government agency possesses about 2,000 body…