Issues

Use of biometrics in schools concerns parents

January 10, 2008 - 8:51am

“I certainly wouldn’t want my children to be fingerprinted or have an
iris scan or anything like that,” said Sen. Karen Johnson, R-Mesa,
“We’ve lived many years without doing this. Now this seems to be the
thing everyone is doing, thinking they’re making themselves safe or for
efficiency, and, by golly, it’s not right. And it’s a huge moneymaker

RSC to Call For Investigation Into Use of Taxpayer Funded Earmarks For Political Benefit

December 19, 2007 - 8:24am

Congressman Jeb Hensarling
(R-TX), Chairman of the Republican Study Committee, announced plans to
call for an immediate suspension of the earmarking process after
learning that a prominent House Democrat suggested to Speaker Nancy

Abusing The Secrets Shield By David Kay and Michael German

June 18, 2007 - 8:57am

The CIA, under the leadership of George Tenet, realized that it had the wrong man, but rather than apologize, agents abandoned Masri on a hilltop in Albania, apparently hoping that no one would believe his story.

FBI Finds It Frequently Overstepped in Collecting Data

June 15, 2007 - 6:18am

An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years, far more than was documented in a Justice Department report in March that ignited bipartisan congressional criticism.

Peel brings privacy issues 'front and center': profile

May 29, 2007 - 7:12am

The way Peel tells it, her patients now include every U.S. patient, whose medical privacy is being unethically and even illegally invaded by healthcare’s paparazzi—the multibillion-dollar medical data-mining industry—and the pharmaceutical and insurance companies the data-miners serve. She also believes federal officials are hell-bent on promoting healthcare IT, but aren’t listening to patients' concerns that their most intimate information, once digitized, could be lost, stolen or stored and held against them.