Secure Flight: Shredding Data and Avoiding Oversight
Aug 15, 2005 | 9:21 am
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Secure Flight: Shredding Data and Avoiding Oversight
Wired reports in two seperate stories today that TSA has been destroying Secure Flight test data in continued violation of the Privacy Act while at the same time pushing Congress to reduce oversight and restrictions on the use of commercial data in Secure Flight.
Aug 15, 2005 | 9:53 am
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The last article http://wired.com/news/print/0,1294,68518,00.html mistakenly identifies Sabo as Ranking Member Appropriations. I'm quite confident that Rep. Dave Obey of Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District has that position. I'm also reasonably confident that Dave Obey too is generally a good friend of civil liberties (and the CWA airport 
).
Tim Sparapani, legislative counsel for the ACLU, should have quite good access to Obey -- courtesy of CWA-area ties. And Sparapani is certainly aware that the so-called SecureFlight (CAPPSII) program as currently designed is a threat to the privacy and other liberties of Americans. There are several reasons why DHS does not want true Congressional or even GAO oversight on this matter.
).Tim Sparapani, legislative counsel for the ACLU, should have quite good access to Obey -- courtesy of CWA-area ties. And Sparapani is certainly aware that the so-called SecureFlight (CAPPSII) program as currently designed is a threat to the privacy and other liberties of Americans. There are several reasons why DHS does not want true Congressional or even GAO oversight on this matter.