Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Setback for secret Big Brother database
The federal government has been told by a judge to start producing
copies of documents in an open government case brought by the Electronic Privacy Information Center over a nationwide plan to integrate within the government a comprehensive database about Americans. The organization confirmed in a statement today that the order
involves its case against the Office of Director of National
Intelligence, in which EPIC wants information about Washington’s
strategy to integrate databases inside the government “without the legal
safeguards typically in place for personal data.” The court ordered the agency to disclose the procedures it has establish to safeguard privacy rights, EPIC said. The lawsuit wants information from the office, an executive branch
operation under the control of the Obama White House, about its plan to
collect database information about Americans from the CIA, the FBI and
the Department of Homeland Security. EPIC, which for nearly 20 years has focused its attention on the
civil liberties, privacy, First Amendment and constitutional issues
related to electronic data, said under Washington’s revised guidelines,
“The ODNI plans to obtain and integrate databases containing detailed
personal information from across the federal government. “The data will be kept for up to five years without the legal
safeguards typically in place for personal data held by government
agencies,” the organization explained...more
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment