Liberty Coalition news March 2010

March 12, 2010 - 2:58pm

TAKE ACTION: Tell the feds: Hands off our medical records!

The Institute for Health Freedom has a great primer on a proposed rule from the bureacrats at the Department of Health and Human Services in DC.  HHS wants to force doctors to create and share electronic medical records of their patients without patient consent.  HHS is taking public comments on the rule until Monday.  IHF has all the details including how to send in your comments to HHS:

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Open letter re: destroyed Justice Dept. emails

Liberty Coalition and other organizations sent out an open letter this week to key members of Congress urging them to follow through on their oversight responsibilities and investigate why so many emails have disappeared from the Department of Justice.

Liberty Coalition, others urge Obama to activate Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board

March 1, 2010

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President:

In November 2009, many of the undersigned organizations wrote to you to express our concern over the lack of nominations to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB). We write again, with increased urgency, to encourage you to appoint individuals immediately.

U.S. House told: Support transparency in health care legislation

January 20, 2010

Dear Representative:

On behalf of an ideologically diverse coalition of millions of Americans, we write to strongly urge that you sign the discharge petition for H. Res. 847. Introduced by Representative Vern Buchanan (R-FL), this petition would force a vote on a bipartisan "Sunshine Resolution" to call on Congress and the Obama Administration to conduct all negotiations surrounding landmark health care reform legislation "in full public view and not behind closed doors."

Yet another national ID card proposed by Sens. Schumer, Graham

Papers, please:

Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain.

Under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal U.S. workers, including citizens and immigrants, would be issued an ID card with embedded information, such as fingerprints, to tie the card to the worker.

 

Justice Dept promises not to plunder Census data

The Assistant Attorney General has sent a letter to concerned members of Congress   insisting that personal data collected on Americans by the U.S. Census Bureau will not be disclosed to "law enforcement or national security officials."  This is a commendable position.  It would be nice if the NSA Director released a similar letter.

This concern would not be so pronounced if the Census stuck to their Constitutional mandate in the first place and only inquired as to the number of persons in the household.

Latest surveillance tech: Portable license-plate scanners

The latest in police/revenuer surveillance technology?  Read all about it in The USA Today:

The cameras read license plates of parked and moving cars — hundreds per minute — and check them against vehicle databases, said Lance Clem, a spokesman for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, which purchased several systems for its police vehicles last fall.[...]

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