Privacy Issues

Information barriers hurt security effort (Wednesday, 1/26/2005, Plain Dealer)
Washington - Poor information-sharing both inside and outside government is threatening homeland security, congressional investigators said Tuesday.

Public records not online are still available, for a fee (Saturday, 1/22/2005, Plain Dealer)
Columbus- Some public records kept by state and local government agencies and not available online to the general population might still be available via the Internet - but you have to pay

President Bush's overview of changes to airport security

MSNBC - 'Very, Very Accurate' A biometrics consultant argues in favor of the technology used to fingerprint and photograph visitors to the United States

Proposed government procedures to score passengers with a rating of their security risk are explained in "U.S. to Push Airlines for Passenger Records."

These Additional Powers Are Not Necessary"—an interview with the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union.

"Protecting Your Identity" and note shortcomings in their own efforts to guard against identity theft.

Read the White House News Release announcing President Bush’s signing of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003.

The article "Help on the way for ID theft victims" explains the law, its strengths and weaknesses.

Local reactions to identity theft problems -- efforts made at the state level to address it and reactions to the new national legislation. The Web site idtheftcenter.org might be helpful for research. The Identity Theft Resource Center is in the process of compiling a list of current laws state by state.

Privacy chapter of Winning with the News Media

Invasion of Medical Privacy

LAPD studies facial recognition software

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What Is Invasion of Privacy?