Another followup, this one to the TSA’s collection of commercial airline passenger data for the new Secure Flight program. See today’s GovExec article, TSA to brief Congress on using commercial data for passenger screening. Privacy concerns about the program were again raised last week by the ACLU.
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Daily Archives: November 22, 2004
Senate Passes CREATE Act
On 11/20/2004, the Senate passed, and House agreed to S. 2192, the Cooperative Research and Technology Enhancement (CREATE) Act of 2004. Congressional Record Reference, House of Representatives, November 20, 2004, Page: H10219: ” In the future, research collaborations between academia and industry will be even more critical to the efforts of U.S. industry to maintain… Continue Reading
New Blog on Freedom of the Press
According to Bob Ambrogi, his new blog, Media Law, “will track news relating to the First Amendment, access to public records, open meetings laws, journalist shield laws, libel and other such issues, with an emphasis on Massachusetts.” [thanks d.c.] It is off to an informative and fast paced start. Continue Reading
New Passports With E-Chips Raise Issues of Privacy and ID Theft
As a follow-up to my May 17 posting, Biometric ID Will Be Added to US Passports, today’s AP story, Electronic Passports Might Not Measure Up, details additional concerns that the information chips under development subject the passport holder to an ID theft scam that is simple to perpetrate. Continue Reading
Plans Take Shape for E-Health Records
From the New York Times, this article reviews the challenges involved in work underway by NIH, industry and providers to coordinate and implement a digital health network. Continue Reading
