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	<description>Challenging ID Demands</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Lawsuit filed against DHS travel surveillance</title>
		<link>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2010/08/25/lawsuit-filed-against-dhs-travel-surveillance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Hasbrouck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the first lawsuit to challenge one of the U.S. government&#8217;s largest post-9/11 dragnet surveillance programs, the First Amendment Project (FAP) filed suit today under the Privacy Act and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) against U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the DHS division that operates the illegal &#8220;Automated Targeting System&#8221; of lifetime travel histories [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DHS scrambles to cover up FOIA scandal</title>
		<link>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2010/08/18/dhs-scrambles-to-cover-up-foia-scandal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2010/08/18/dhs-scrambles-to-cover-up-foia-scandal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Hasbrouck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Within weeks after documents released by the DHS to the Associated Press revealed that FOIA (&#8221;Freedom Of Information Act&#8221;) requests had been systematically referred for &#8220;political review&#8221; at higher levels of the executive branch of the government, and responses illegally delayed while those reviews were pending, the DHS published new rules in the Federal Register [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DHS designates point of contact for human rights complaints</title>
		<link>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2010/08/10/dhs-designates-point-of-contact-for-human-rights-complaints/</link>
		<comments>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2010/08/10/dhs-designates-point-of-contact-for-human-rights-complaints/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Hasbrouck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently in response to repeated inquiries from the Identity Project about what has happened to our most recent complaint to the DHS and TSA that their procedures violate the right to freedom of movement guaranteed by Article 12 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the TSA has officially informed us that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public says &#8220;No&#8221; to national cyberspace ID proposal</title>
		<link>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2010/08/07/public-says-no-to-national-cyberspace-id-proposal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2010/08/07/public-says-no-to-national-cyberspace-id-proposal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 20:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Hasbrouck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In June, the Department of Homeland Security and the President&#8217;s Cybersecurity Coordinator published a proposal and request for comments on a for a &#8220;National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace&#8221; (NSTIC).
It&#8217;s hard to belive that such a system implemented from the top down at the behest of DHS and the White House would remain, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TSA says all their Standard Operating Procedures are secret</title>
		<link>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2010/08/02/tsa-says-all-their-standard-operating-procedures-are-secret/</link>
		<comments>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2010/08/02/tsa-says-all-their-standard-operating-procedures-are-secret/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Hasbrouck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The TSA is still stonewalling our FOIA requests for their Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), which we presume are among those that have been (illegally) sidetracked and delayed for review by DHS and other administration political commissars.
But after the Associated Press pried loose internal DHS e-mail messages confirming the delays in processing &#8220;politically sensitive&#8221; FOIA requests [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Post: &#8220;Secure Flight may be making your privacy less secure&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2010/07/30/washington-post-secure-flight-may-be-making-your-privacy-less-secure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2010/07/30/washington-post-secure-flight-may-be-making-your-privacy-less-secure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Hasbrouck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re quoted today in the Washington Post in a story by Christopher Elliott about how airlines are able to use personal information &#8212; collected under government duress for the TSA&#8217;s Secure Flight passenger surveillance and control scheme &#8212; for the airlines&#8217; own marketing and other purposes.
&#8220;Could it be that the information we give airlines doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DHS plays politics with FOIA requests</title>
		<link>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2010/07/30/dhs-plays-politics-with-foia-requests/</link>
		<comments>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2010/07/30/dhs-plays-politics-with-foia-requests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Hasbrouck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press reports that the Department of Homeland Security has been delaying responses to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests &#8212; possibly including ours &#8212; while they are &#8220;reviewed&#8217; by top political advisors:
[T]he Homeland Security Department detoured hundreds of requests for federal records to senior political advisers for highly unusual scrutiny, probing for information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US but not UK gives travel &#8220;permission&#8221; for Iroquois lacrosse team</title>
		<link>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2010/07/27/us-but-not-uk-gives-travel-permission-for-iroquois-lacrosse-team/</link>
		<comments>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2010/07/27/us-but-not-uk-gives-travel-permission-for-iroquois-lacrosse-team/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Hasbrouck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The good news: In one of the first tests of US rules purporting to forbid US citizens from crossing US borders without first obtaining US passports (issued at the government&#8217;s apparently standardless discretion), the US Department of State issued &#8220;one-time waivers&#8221; authorizing the &#8220;Iroquois Nationals&#8221; lacrosse team to leave the US (and presumably to return, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The government shouldn&#8217;t decide who can fly&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2010/07/23/the-government-shouldnt-decide-who-can-fly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2010/07/23/the-government-shouldnt-decide-who-can-fly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Hasbrouck</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom To Travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In one of the first statements in the mainstream media to (a) recognize that the essential feature of the TSA&#8217;s Secure Flight program is the requirement for domestic US air travelers to receive government permisison to fly and (b) oppose that requirement, The Chicago Tribune has published an op-ed column by Steve Chapman (also appearing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australian government expanding air travel surveillance</title>
		<link>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2010/07/09/australian-government-expanding-air-travel-surveillance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2010/07/09/australian-government-expanding-air-travel-surveillance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Hasbrouck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Closely following the bad example (controversial both in the US and Australia) of the USA, the government of Australia is moving toward increasing detailed and integrated ID-based surveillance and control of air travelers.
As of the first of this month, under the so-called Enhanced Passenger Assessment and Clearance (EPAC) systems, Australian authorities have real-time access to [...]]]></description>
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