Michael D Ostrolenk's blog

If you've ever visited a Dentist, Tax Professional, Lawyer, Chiropractor, or Mortgage Broker, your personal information may be at risk.

 Liberty Coalition would like to thank Dr. Peel for being our first guest blogger  in 2008. 

 

We all hear daily reports of thousands of identities being compromised on a daily basis.  The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse estimates that since January, 2005 there have been more than 217 million instances of "Data Breach," or individuals whose sensitive personal information has been compromised, exposed, or stolen.  I

Our friends at BORDC have put together a great list of legistation to watch.  So, instead of recreating the wheel, with their permission, the list is below.....

 

 

 Legislation Addressing National Security Letters

Unfortunately,( or not) I do not get to see all of the hearings in the House and Senate that I would like to be able to. Fortunately, for me, others do attend and are able to keep track of the substance of the various hearings. Two hearings, I would have like to have seen as reported in the August 27th issue of the American Conservative magazine

This is an issue that should transcend partisan interests. It does not matter which party is in power. Power itself needs to be checked and one of the ways to do that is to protect those brave men and women who come forward to blow the whistle on waste, fraud and abuse.

The REAL ID is basically an internal travel passport which gives the false sense of improving security while diminishing it in the process.