Over the weekend Stewart Baker of the DHS posted an entry in the DHS “Leadership Journal” blog entitled U.S. and EU Agree on Data Protection Principles. Readers unfamiliar with the “back story” might conclude from this — as Baker and the DHS no doubt hope they will — that some sort of formal negotiations have […]
USA Today has a story on the new long-range RFID scanners reading ID cards as individuals drive toward the border. “By the time a car stops at the Customs booth, the agent will have the photos and information of everyone in the car. If a name is on a watch list or database, the person […]
The Obama Administration promises change, and invites suggestions for their agenda. Since they’ve asked, here are the first things we think the new administration should do to restore our right to travel, and to address the issues of ID requirements and identity-based government surveillance and control of travel and movement. Some of these can be […]
The state of New York has begun issuing (pdf) so-called “enhanced” driver’s licenses (or EDLs). These licenses contain RFID tags and include the individual’s citizenship status on the face of the cards. They are issued under the Department of Homeland Security’s “Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative” and will be used as alternatives to passports for crossing […]
The CBC has an interesting story that exemplifies a significant problem with the watch lists: It is very easy to get around the lists. Mario Labbé, an executive with a Montreal-based record company, says his Canadian passport triggers a red alert on the computers of U.S. customs agents every time he tries to board a […]
A provider of the Transportation Security Administration’s Registered Traveler (RT) program has been suspended from enrolling new applicants after TSA learned “an unencrypted [Verified Identity Pass] laptop computer was discovered to be missing from San Francisco International Airport (SFO) on July 26. The computer contained pre-enrollment records of approximately 33,000 customers.” Verified Identity Pass operated […]
A pop quiz for US citizens: The next time you want to leave the USA. will your government let you go? When you want to come back, will they allow you to come home? Unless people assert their rights, maybe not. And you’ll need the government to give you papers or permission to do so. […]
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When the rubber meets the road, people do things you’d never expect…or would you? We all know apparently normal, well-educated people whose commitment to democracy went out with the bathwater after NineEleven. In this Harper’s Magazine piece from August of 1941, the authoress speculates as to whom in her circle would go Nazi in a […]
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