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Too Much, Too Long? Domestic Violence in the Workplace
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions's Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety's hearing Too Much, Too Long? Domestic Violence in the Workplace for Tuesday, April 17, 10:00 a.m. in room Dirksen 628.
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DHS Federal Register Notice on Employment Verification System
The Department of Homeland Security announced in a Federal Register Notice published on April 9, 2007 that it would be changing several systems for records for the Verification and Information System (VIS) Justice/INS-035 published October 17, 2002 (67 FR 64134) and Alien Status Verification Index (ASVI) Justice/INS-009 published September 7, 2001 (66 FR 46815). The established systems of records will be effective on May 9, 2007 and would also be used for purposes related to REAL ID. You may submit comments, identified by Docket Number DHS-2007-0010 by one of the following methods: Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. You may also submit comments by fax by following the instructions for submitting comments. Fax: 1-866-466-5370, or mail comments to: Hugo Teufel III, Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC 20528.
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S.236 Federal Agency Data Mining Reporting Act of 2007
A bill to require reports to Congress on Federal agency use of data mining. The legislation would require the head of all federal government agencies that engage in data mining to make a report to Congress annually and that such reports would be made public, unless classified.
Sponsor: Sen Feingold, Russell D. [WI] (introduced 1/10/2007)
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DHS Privacy and Security Advisory Committee Meeting
The morning session of the meeting will consider REAL ID rulemaking. The regulations for the REAL ID where recently made public by the Department of Homeland Security. The meeting will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza Washington National Airport, located at 1480 Crystal Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22202. Attendees should RSVP to PrivacyCommittee@dhs.gov or 571-227-3813. The meeting will be closed to the public from 12:30 p.m. until 1:30 p.m. for administrative purposes. Attendees should arrive by 8:45 a.m. or 1:15 p.m. for the public sessions.
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Coalition Joins to Demand Hearings on NSA Surveillance
A coalition of organizations representing consumer rights, privacy, peace, enviornmental, civil liberties, and civil rights joined a letter requesting that the House Committee on Energy and Commerce investigate the actions of telecommunication companies in the NSA domestic spying scandal.
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Privacy Coalition 2007 Agenda
The Privacy Coalition adopts its agenda for 2007, which includes issue areas that will be of the highest priority for privacy, civil liberties, and consumer protection. The coalition's top priorities for the year include encouraging greater Congressional oversight of the information sharing environment, comprehensive medical privacy protection, repeal of the REAL ID, block federal employment identification system, end the use of National Security Letters, and protection of voter privacy.
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July 1, 2005
EPIC - National ID at the Crossroads
On June 6, 2005, representatives of many organizations that raised concerns about REAL ID and related proposals met in Washington, DC to discuss next steps. Bruce Schneier, the author of "Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World," gave a presentation on the challenges that implementation of REAL ID presents.
Topics included:
* The technology of identification
* Lessons of RFID passports
* An organized response to REAL ID
On May 10, 2005, President Bush signed into law the REAL ID Act, a sweeping measure that will establish new identification requirements across the United States. The legislation mandates federal identification standards and requires states DMVs, which have become the targets of identity thieves, to collect sensitive personal information. Lawmakers in both parties urged debate on REAL ID and more than 600 organizations opposed the legislation. Moreover, the legislation passed at a time of growing concern about identity theft
and the reliability of new hi-tech identification.
On June 6, 2005, representatives of many organizations that raised concerns about REAL ID and related proposals met in Washington, DC to discuss next steps. Bruce Schneier, the author of "Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World," gave a presentation on the challenges that implementation of REAL ID presents.
Topics included:
* The technology of identification
* Lessons of RFID passports
* An organized response to REAL ID
Posted by EPIC at July 1, 2005 5:21 PM
