Monday, July 14, 2003

TIA funding in doubt Funding for TIA All But Dead. The Senate inserts a provision to a key bill that denies all funding to the Terrorist Information Awareness effort. It's a move that would make it much more difficult for the Pentagon to try to establish its massive data-mining spy network. By Ryan Singel. [Wired News] comment [] 12:52:06 PM

Privacy Rights -- Inaction I sat in the House Chamber 3 years ago and listened to Dick Armey promise our group (attending the Global Internet conference hosted at Georgia Mason University) that privacy laws would pass that year.  And that those laws would endorse P3P standards (which all vendors said would be operational that year).  We are still waiting.... (tic, tic, tic) SJ Mercury: Privacy rights under threat by lawmakers. Dan Gillmor. In the constant battle to preserve what's left of our privacy and roll back some of the invasions we've already suffered, one reality is all too clear: Elected officials are not on our side. [Tomalak's Realm] comment [] 9:50:08 AM