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Roadblock Registry
National Motorists Association
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Database of roadblocks & roadblock legislation, your rights & what to do at a roadblock
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ACLU features on face-recognition cameras
American Civil Liberites Union
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A series of reports on face-recognition technology from the ACLU.
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FBI affadavit on key-logging techniques
FBI via EPIC
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The Nicodemus Scarfo case has since been settled out fo court, but one of the issues that arose in the proceedings was the legality of the FBI's having placed a keystroke-logging device on his computer.
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Matching Faces With Mug Shots
Robert O'Harrow
Washington Post
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This article reveals that Visionics Corp., the company that makes the FaceIt technology used by the city Tampa, has extensive ties to military and intelligence agencies, including a grant from DARPA to develop face-recognition software.
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CALEA
Flexible Deployment
Assistance Guide:
Packet-Mode Communications
Federal Bureau of Investigation
CALEA Implementation Section
August 2001
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The purpose of this Second Edition of the "Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) Flexible Deployment Assistance Guide" (Guide) is to further assist telecommunications carriers in meeting certain requirements of CALEA. This Guide continues the implementation efforts of the CALEA Implementation Section (CIS) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with respect to packet-mode communications for certain telecommunications carriers. This Guide requests telecommunications carriers voluntarily submit certain information to the FBI, and . . . also provides some general background information regarding CALEA, and discusses lawfully-authorized electronic surveillance, technical solutions being developed by the industry, and the cost reimbursement provisions of CALEA.
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Field Test of Non-Intrusive Traffic Detection Technologies
Amy E. Polk, et alia
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The purpose of this evaluation is to collect practical information on the performance, installation requirements, long-term maintenance requirements and costs of various types of non-intrusive traffic detection technologies. More than a dozen devices representing magnetic, sonic, ultrasonic, microwave, infrared and video image processing technologies will be evaluated during this project.
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Super Bowl Surveillance:
Facing Up to Biometrics
John Woodward
RAND Corporation
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In this paper for the Rand Corporation, a former CIA officer glosses over the dangers and urges broader governmental uses of face-scanning technology.
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Handbook 9.4 - Investigative Techniques
Chapter 6 - Surveillance and Non-Consensual Monitoring
Internal Revenue Service
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Enforcement activities include a wide spectrum of Criminal Investigation (CI) activities. Surveillance is an enforcement technique used to obtain information, leads, and evidence. CI surveillance techniques include: A. Physical visual.
B. Electronic.
C. Video.
D. Aerial surveillance.
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Red-Light Cameras are the Big Brother Infrastructure
Jim Harper
July 31, 2001
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Testimony to U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure's Subcommittee on Highways: "More so than the private sector, governments have the capability and the incentive to take, use, and abuse the personal information of citizens. George Orwell wrote 1984, bringing us the infamous concept of "Big Brother," as a warning against the power of governments — not the private sector. . . As soon as red-light cameras are used for anything other than snapping suspected speeders — and they soon will be — these cameras should be shown a red light themselves."
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Minority Report on Echelon
July 2001
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The European Parliament set up a Commission to look into the Anglo-American ECHELON spy system and issued a detailed report. This dissenting opinion points out "The majority, on the one hand, has chosen to highlight the probable if not certain, but not documented, existence of the Anglo-Saxon system called Echelon; on the other hand, it censured the fact that Germany and Holland possess and use the same technology ("systematic and at random interceptions filtered by a search engine")."
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Privacy in a Free Country: In Search of Reasonable Principles
Solveig Singleton
April 2001
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This paper examines privacy in four different areas - privacy from government, privacy as consumer protection, employer/employee privacy and medical privacy.
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"Encryption and Wiretapping"
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Among the recommendations: "Congress should lift all technical review requirements for encryption software and hardware; reject attempts to foist key escrow, or key recovery, on the market . . ."
A chapter from the Cato Institute's Cato Handbook for the 107th Congress.
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Prohibition, Privacy and Protection: The Real Online Gamble
Thomas Pearson
August 2000
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Efforts to prohibit gambling over the Internet leave the door open for government abuses of privacy. Inevitably, some form of government monitoring of individual's conversations and electronic correspondence will be proposed under the auspices of intercepting illicit bettors and bookies. However, honest citizens will most likely receive the most harassment from these measures.
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Assessing Threats to Privacy: The Government Sector - Greatest Menace to Privacy By Far
Jim Harper
September 2000
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The government sector has many incentives to collect, store, and use personal information. Few incentives cut the other direction or point them toward treating citizens’ personal information with care. The U.S. government, although one of best, operates in a legal environment that fails to protect privacy. It collects too much personal information about its people, keeps that information too long, and sometimes uses it to invade privacy, or worse.
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The Presidency and the Privacy Act
Roger Pilon
September 8, 2000
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"I will argue that the president and his immediate advisers already are subject to the requirements of the Privacy Act. In so arguing, I will focus especially on the framing of the matter. Second, I will argue that, in any event, Congress should make that coverage more explicit than it presently is. And, third, I will offer a few reasons why Congress should so act, based on my own experience with the Privacy Act."
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Questions for the Proposed Privacy Commission
Solveig Singleton
May 16, 2000
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This year's version of a Privacy Commission bill has taken into account some of the questions offered by Solveig Singleton in testimony before the previous Congress.
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Interception capabilities 2000
Duncan Campbell
April 1999
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A report to the European Parliament on the signals intelligence listening program ECHELON, run by the UKUSA alliance of Anglophone countries.
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