Campaigns
UPDATE: More Than 50 Groups Join Anti-National ID Campaign
May 3, 2007A number of groups, including the Coalition Against Prosecutorial Abuse and Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, have joined a campaign against REAL ID. Fifty-four groups are urging the public to submit comments against the illegal national identification system created by the Department of Homeland Security under the REAL ID program. DHS seeks to create a massive system filled with sensitive personal data on 240 million license and ID cardholders nationwide, yet has failed to include adequate privacy and security safeguards.
Posted by EPIC on May 3, 2007 | TrackBack(0)
Over Forty Groups Announce National REAL ID Public Campaign
May 1, 2007
Today, 45 organizations representing transpartisan, nonpartisan, privacy, consumer, civil liberty, civil rights, and immigrant organizations have joined to launch a national campaign to solicit public comments to stop the nation's first national ID system: REAL ID. The groups joining in the anti-REAL ID campaign are concerned about the increased threat of counterfeiting and identity theft, lack of security to protect against unauthorized access to the document's machine readable content, increased cost to taxpayers, diverting of state funds intended for homeland security, increased costs for obtaining a license or state issued ID card, and because the REAL ID would create a false belief that it is secure and unforgeable.
The draft regulations to implement the REAL ID Act are open for comment until 5 p.m. EST on May 8, 2007. For more information on how to take action, visit the Privacy Coalition's Stop REAL ID! Campaign page.
Posted by EPIC on May 1, 2007 | TrackBack(0)
Coalition Joins to Demand Hearings on NSA Surveillance
September 26, 2006A 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.
Posted by EPIC on September 26, 2006 | TrackBack(0)
National Call-in to Congress on NSA Warrantless Surveillance
May 16, 2006On May 17, 2006, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee is leading a coalition effort to organize a "call your member of Congress campaign". The organizations participating in the effort include the ACLU, First Amendment Foundation, National Lawyers Guild, and People for the American Way.
Posted by EPIC on May 16, 2006
Coalition Launches Medical Records Privacy Protection Campaign
October 28, 2005 The Privacy Coalition has joined Patient Privacy Rights in launching launched a joint campaign to strengthen protections for patients' medical information. Congress is rushing to pass legislation to establish a national Health Information Network without patient privacy safeguards. Yet a recent poll found that 69 percent of adults do not believe strong enough data security will be installed. Sign an online petition in opposition of this legislation.Posted by EPIC on October 28, 2005
Over 100 Groups Seek End to DOD Recruiting Database
October 18, 2005 Privacy Coalition members, joined by dozens of local, state, and national organizations signed on to a letter urging Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to end the "Joint Advertising and Market Research Studies" Recruiting Database. The groups cited the broad exemptions to federal privacy laws that would allow the Defense Department to disclose personal information to others without an individual's consent or knowledge. The database would include name, date of birth, gender, address, telephone, e-mail address, Social Security Number, ethnicity, high school, education level, college, and intended field of study for more than 30 million Americans who are 16-25 years old.Posted by EPIC on October 18, 2005