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Privacy Group Takes Aim at Bush Administration
Electronic Privacy Information Center files suit to speed the release of information about antiterrorism measures.
Brian Sullivan, Computerworld
The Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center has again filed suit against the Bush administration, this time to hurry the release of documents regarding antiterrorism measures and a possible national ID system instituted by the government.
EPIC Tuesday announced that it would sue to get the details of national ID card legislation reportedly being drawn up by the U.S. Office of Homeland Security. The ID card system would reportedly link driver's license information from around the country to federal databases.
"The potential privacy implications of these proposals are far-reaching," says EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg. "Under well-established open record laws, Governor [Tom] Ridge has an obligation to the American people to ensure that these decisions are made in the open."
Ridge heads the homeland security office, which falls under the jurisdiction of the White House. A White House spokesperson was unavailable for comment Tuesday morning on the EPIC suit.
Familiar Territory
Tuesday's lawsuit marks the second time EPIC has taken on the Bush administration over Freedom of Information Act requests the group has filed. On March 15, EPIC sued the Department of Transportation seeking details of the DOT's Trusted Traveler program, a security screening system for identifying airline passengers and workers.
In both cases, EPIC filed requests under the FOI Act for more information after press reports stated that certain departments of the administration were drafting legislation or drawing up plans for new airline security programs and the possible use of ID cards for passengers and biometric cards for airline employees. EPIC asked that the information requests be expedited under a 1996 addition to the FOI law.
Rotenberg and EPIC General Counsel David Sobel say the information must be released quickly so that the public can make intelligent decisions about the administration's proposals.
For more enterprise computing news, visit Computerworld. Story copyright © 2007 Computerworld Inc. All rights reserved.
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