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Limits Needed On DHS Border Crossing and Driver Information Databases
Statement: In comments filed with the Department of Homeland Security today, CDT highlighted privacy concerns...
8/25/2008
Broad Laptop Search Authorities Claimed At the Border
Statement: Newly released documents confirm that U.S. government border officials assert authority to rifle...
Border Searches 8/1/2008
Bill Proposes Mandatory Data Retention for ISPs
Statement: A senior Congressman has introduced legislation that would require Internet Service Providers to...
Data Retention Mandates 2/13/2007
Harris Testifies on Government Data Mining
Statement: CDT Executive Director Leslie Harris today told lawmakers that any government "data mining...
1/10/2007
Data Retention Plan Lacks Privacy Safeguards; Could be Costly
Statement: The Justice Department's mounting effort to persuade or compel ISPs and other communications...
Data Retention Mandates 6/2/2006

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Treasury Proposes Forcing Credit Card Companies to Act as IRS Agents In an effort to track down unreported small business income, the U.S. Treasury is calling on... Data Retention Mandates 5/20/2008
Illegal NSA Data Mining Highlights Need for Congressional Oversight USA Today has revealed that the National Security Agency has been compiling telephone information... Data Mining 5/11/2006

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Policy Questions on Data Ownership and Access in the Smart Grid
Comment: We thank OSTP and NIST for their interest in the public’s views on the consumer interface to...
3/7/2010
In the matter of the application of the United States of America for an order directing a provider of electronic communication service to disclose records to the government
Brief: This is a brief filed in the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals opposing an application for historical...
3/16/2009
Testimony of Leslie Harris on Data Mining
Testimony: Testimony of Leslie Harris [pdf] before the Senate Judiciary Committee on "Data Mining."
Leslie Harris Data Mining 1/10/2007
Older materials, 2002-2005
Report: This links back to older CDT material from 2002-2005 on Data Mining.
Data Mining 1/1/2002

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A deeply divided  Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that cell phones contain such sensitive information that law enforcement cannot automatically examine their contents when the cell phone is seized from a person being arrested.  Instead, the... Continued »
The overwhelming majority of laptop searches at the border turn up no evidence of crime, according data presented by Deputy Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, Jayson P. Ahern. At a panel discussion on October 20, Ahern revealed that of... Continued »
A federal appellate court ruled that the government can freely search and save the files travelers maintain on their laptops when coming back to the U.S. from an out of country trip. The case, United States v. Arnold, No. 06-50581, 2008 U.S. App.... Continued »