FC: Privacy groups will meet with Bush administration on CAPPS II

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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From: "edward hasbrouck" <edward () hasbrouck org>
Organization: the practical nomad
To: declan () well com
Date: mon, 17 mar 2003 08:15:29 -0800

Declan: Please share the following with the Politech list.  Thanks!

More on the Transportation Security Administration's meetings with privacy
advocates and civil liberties groups on CAPPS-II and related proposals:

The first round of meetings with staff of the ACLU, CDP, and perhaps
others began this weekend. I've accepted an invitation to an all-day
seminar/briefing with the TSA in Washington on March 26th.  And I've
received a written commitment that the TSA will hold a West Coast,
probably Bay Area, session, probably in April.  (They initially said they
were planning a Bay Area meeting the week of March 31 - April 4, but
promptly revised their plan when I pointed out the conflict with CFP.)

Following is the description I received from the organizer of the TSA
meeting, and the response to my request to post this information:

"The fact that we are setting up and having a series of meetings is
desirably public.  However, our purpose is to have a set of workshop
meetings that allow for exchange and discussion and, like the differences
between a seminar and a lecture (pardon my academic analogies), having the
proper size is important to achieving the goal.  For that reason, the
meetings will be "by invitation" and relatively small.  To increase
participation, though, we are holding a series of meetings across the
country precisely to provide a wide range of opportunities and venues....

"The March 26th meeting will involve two presentations in the morning from
government officials directly involved in the program:  one on the
passenger screening system, how it may work, what the design and
development issues are, and a general overview; the second is on privacy
and privacy-related issues.  We will then have open, moderated discussion
both about the presentations and whatever issues the participants bring to
the table. The Director of the Office of National Risk Assessment will
participate in the late afternoon discussion at which time the group will
summarize its issues, questions, and perspectives, and the Director will
respond to them.  There will be sufficient time to make the latter
exchange more than a Q&A, and more a real discussion."

More on the proposals, the TSA meetings, the legislative activites in the
US Congress and the European Parliament last week, and a primer on "What's
in a PNR?"  (I'll add some sample PNR's as soon as I have time), at:

http://hasbrouck.org/articles/travelprivacy.html



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Edward Hasbrouck
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<http://hasbrouck.org>

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"The Practical Nomad: How to Travel Around the World"
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