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Privacy Hearings

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

Homeland Security Releases Final REAL ID Rules

The Department of Homeland Security released the long awaited final rule on state issued drivers licenses and identification documents. The rule indicated that the new federal REAL ID will be used for a variety of purposes unrelated to the law that resulted in the federalization of state issued drivers licenses. If states do not comply with the agency rule the drivers’ licenses held by state residents will not be accepted for air travel or to access federal government buildings. As a cost saving measure the Department of Homeland Security decided not to require encryption of the digital data stored on the REAL ID. The Privacy Coalition led a major anti-REAL ID public education campaign. EPIC's page on REAL ID and the ACLU's analysis of the new agency rule..

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Privacy Legislation

Congress Gives Administration More Wiretap Power

Congress gives the White House expanded domestic spying and reduce judicial oversight, through amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The new authority given to the President by Congress will permit warrantless surveillance of American citizens when one party to the conversation may be outside of the United States. This change in the FISA law which already gave law enforcement and national intelligence agenies great latitude under a special court which exclusively heard these request for surveillance of non-citizens. This change in the FISA law will leave millions of Americans subject to electronic surveillance, without court review, regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing. However, the amendments will sunset in 180 days, which will provide an opportunity for further debate in Congress.

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DC Privacy Events

2007 Annual Meeting: Privacy Agenda 08

January 24-26, 2008 marked the 14th Annual Meeting of the Privacy Coalition. The meeting took place in Washington, DC and featured participation by privacy, consumer rights, civil liberties, and civil rights organizations.

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Campaigns

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Coalition Meetings

September 28 Privacy Coalition Meeting

The September 28, 2007 meeting of the Privacy Coalition featured presentations by David Gersten Director of the Department of Homeland Security's Civil Rights and Civil Libertieis Programs, Robert Mocny, Director of the Department of Homeland Security's US VISIT Program. The meeting also featured presentations by Susan Hunkler a privacy rights activist, Jim Harrision Director of the Identity Project, Lew Motby President, Work Rights Institute and a discussion on Fusion Centers.

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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 Project on Technology
Consumer Task Force for Automotive Issues
Consumers Union
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
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
Traditional Values Coalition
U.S. Public Interest Research Group
World Privacy Forum