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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Privacy Pledge
Privacy is one of America's most fundamental values.
The Fourth Amendment states that "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated." In addition, the U.S. has adopted many laws protecting Americans from privacy invasive practices by both the public and private sectors.
Recognizing the need to protect this essential freedom, I, (insert Member's name), pledge to my constituents in (State and District) and to the American people that I will support a privacy framework to safeguard the rights of Americans in this information age.
This framework includes:
- the Fair Information Practices: the right to notice, consent, security, access, correction, use limitations, and redress when information is improperly used,
- independent enforcement and oversight,
- promotion of genuine Privacy Enhancing Technologies that limit the collection of personal information and legal restrictions on surveillance technologies such as those used for locational tracking, video surveillance, electronic profiling, and workplace monitoring, and
- a solid foundation of federal privacy safeguards that permit the private sector and states to implement supplementary protections as needed.
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