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[privacy] JPL Scientists Stand Up To Government For Right To Privacy
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:48:04 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The Wired Blog Network. [snip] Next week 28 NASA Jet Propulsion Lab scientists (including William Banerdt, a project scientist on the Mars rover program) will fight for their right to privacy in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, California. They are fighting against Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 (HSPD-12) that President Bush issued in August 2004. Policies resulting from the directive requires all federal employees and contractors to "voluntarily" (JPL employees would be terminated immediately for non-compliance) sign a form allowing the government the right to investigate them "without limit" for two years- even if they leave government work during that time. The directive is meant to confirm the identity of all government employees and give them new high-tech badges, the JPL scientists say they have gone too far. [snip] More: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/11/jpl-scientists.html Props /. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/29/2058211 - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHT2vUq1pz9mNUZTMRAvMZAJ4iGEn4xlNo6d6dmGa4LdcIR85KDACfevD8 nBvD+Si2vcCZtjGsQaUJtsI= =wdwQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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