ChadKing.com Archives: September 2004
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30 September 2004
Florida’s Failure
ABCNews.com is reporting that the security was compromised on a website containing records of 4,000 abused and neglected Florida children. The confidential records, accessible on a site maintained for the Florida Department of Children & Families, included children’s names, case histories, Social Security Numbers, and photos.The Department shut down the site yesterday. According to [...]
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30 September 2004
It’s a Bird, it’s a Plane, it’s a . . . Security Blimp?
The Defense Department is testing a new security blimp in the skies above Washington DC. The white blimp is equiped with, among other things, Rapid Aerostat Initial Deployment (RAID) sensor equipment, which is currently used in Iraq and Afghanistan to detect ground threats to U.S troops.Only a few weeks ago, the decision by Greek [...]
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29 September 2004
No More Secrets
The Senate is currently considering the National Intelligence Reform Act of 2004, an anti-terrorism measure that includes a provision for an “Information Sharing Network” to aggregate and coordinate data from “all available sources.” This network would draw data from federal departments and agencies, state and tribal governments, local governments and “relevant private sector entities, including [...]
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29 September 2004
Unconstitutional Letters
Under 18 U.S.C. ยง 2709, the FBI may seek information using a national security letter (NSL), which legally prevents the recipient from disclosing its existence “to any person.” Shortly after the statute was amended as part of the Patriot Act, the ACLU sued the government, arguing that an NSL amounted to a restriction on free [...]
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28 September 2004
Federal Preemption of State Financial Privacy Laws?
Senator Dianne Feinstein is denouncing Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) regulations issued by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency that might preempt California’s financial privacy law, SB1.The regulations at issue arguably remove the states’ rights to enforce certain financial privacy laws against federally-chartered banks. Senator Feinstein states in a letter to the Comptroller [...]
