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Congressional Hearing on Employment Verification

The House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on employment verification. Several hearings have be held by the committee on the proposal to create a mandatory national government employment eligibility system. The current private sector system is voluntary.

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Privacy Rulemaking

Privacy Coalition Members Send Comments to NIST on Smart Grid Systems

Members of the Privacy Coalition urged a federal agency to establish safeguards for Smart Grid systems that protect consumer electricity usage information from unauthorized collection, use, disclosure, or sale. Smart Grid networks, which uniquely identify individual devices and appliances, create new privacy risks and could reveal intimate details of home life. EPIC recommended that policies be established to safeguard consumer privacy, including limitations on data collection, enforceable privacy practices, new security standards, and independent oversight.

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Privacy Legislation

FISA Reform Bill Introduced in the House

Representatives Conyers, Nadler, and Scott introduced two bills today that would amend the PATRIOT Act and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The Patriot Amendments Act of 2009 will enhance reporting and judicial oversight of law enforcement powers, including the National Security Letter process. The FISA Amendments Act of 2009 will place new limits on the government's ability to collect and store Americans' communications without a warrant and repeals retroactive immunity.

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DC Privacy Events

2010 Annual Privacy Coalition Meeting

The annual meeting of the Privacy Coalition held in Washington DC on January 21-23, 2010 hosted discussions among activists, policy makers, government decision makers, and federal chief privacy officials. Congressman Bennie G. Thompson served as the Keynote speaker at the dinner held on Thursday evening. At the event Beth Givens, founder and director of Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, was presented with the EPIC's U.S. Privacy Champion Award for 2010. Meeting participants. Meeting Agenda.

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Campaigns

Privacy Coalition Members Defend Privacy of Facebook Users

Ten Privacy and consumer organizations filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, urging the FTC to open an investigation into Facebook's revised privacy settings. The complaint, led by EPIC is signed by nine other privacy and consumer organizations, states that the "changes violate user expectations, diminish user privacy, and contradict Facebook's own representations." There has been widespread opposition from Facebook users, security experts, bloggers, and news organizations.

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Coalition Meetings

2010 Annual Privacy Coalition Meeting

The annual meeting of the Privacy Coalition held in Washington DC on January 21-23, 2010 hosted discussions among activists, policy makers, government decision makers, and federal chief privacy officials. Congressman Bennie G. Thompson served as the Keynote speaker at the dinner held on Thursday evening. At the event Beth Givens, founder and director of Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, was presented with the EPIC's U.S. Privacy Champion Award for 2010. Meeting participants. Meeting Agenda.

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The Privacy Coalition is a nonpartisan coalition of consumer, civil liberties, educational, family, library, labor, and technology organizations that have agreed to the Privacy Pledge. Members of the coalition have been meeting since 1995, but formalized the organization in February 2001. View a list of member organizations.

Member Organizations

American Association of Christian Schools
American Association of Law Libraries
American Conservative Union
American Library Association
American Civil Liberties Union
American Policy Center
Association for Computing Machinery
Center for Digital Democracy
Commercial Alert
Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
Consumer Action
Consumer Federation of America
Consumer Task Force for Automotive Issues
Consumers Union
Consumer Watchdog
Eagle Forum
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Privacy Information Center
Free Congress Foundation
Home School Legal Defense Association
Identity Theft Action Council
Institute for Global Communications
International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW)
Junkbusters
Liberty Coalition
Knowledge Ecology International
Media Access Project
National Consumers League
National Rifle Association
National Workrights Institute
Net Action
Owners-Operators Independent Drivers Association
Patient Privacy Rights
PrivacyActivism.org
Privacy Foundation
Privacy International
Privacy Journal
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
Privacy Times
Survivors In Action
Traditional Values Coalition
U.S. Public Interest Research Group
World Privacy Forum