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Books and Book Chapters

"Electronic Surveillance," Chapter 28, Cato Handbook for Policymakers, 7th Edition (2009).

"National ID Systems," Chapter 29, Cato Handbook for Policymakers, 7th Edition (2009).

"Telecommunications, Broadband, and Media Policy," Chapter 37, Cato Handbook for Policymakers, 7th Edition (2009).

Identity Crisis: How Identification Is Overused and Misunderstood, by Jim Harper (May 2006).

"National ID Cards," Chapter 27, Cato Handbook on Policy, 6th ed. (2005).

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Cato Studies

"Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification: Franz Kafka's Solution to Illegal Immigration," by Jim Harper, Policy Analysis no. 612, March 6, 2008

"Effective Counterterrorism and the Limited Role of Predictive Data Mining," by Jeff Jonas and Jim Harper, Policy Analysis no. 584, December 11, 2006

"Understanding Privacy -- and the Real Threats to It," by Jim Harper, Policy Analysis no. 520, August 4, 2004

"Threats to Financial Privacy and Tax Competition," by Richard W. Rahn and Veronique de Rugy, Policy Analysis no. 491, October 2, 2003

"Human Bar Code: Monitoring Biometric Technologies in a Free Society," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Policy Analysis no. 452, September 17, 2002

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Articles and Newsletters

"Government-Run Cyber Security? No, Thanks," by Jim Harper, TechKnowledge no. 123, March 13, 2009.

"When Data Security Regulations Fail, There Is an Alternative," by Jim Harper, TechKnowledge no. 97, March 29, 2005.

"Privacy Threats from a Banana Republic," by Jim Harper, TechKnowledge no. 93, November 11, 2004.

"Federal Spyware Legislation: Some Lessons from Antiquity," by Jim Harper, TechKnowledge no. 89, October 1, 2004.

"Regulation and the Marketplace," by Karim Jamal, Michael Maier and Shyam Sunder, Regulation, vol. 26, no. 4, Winter 2003-2004, pp. 4.

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Opinion and Commentary

"Surveillance Can't Make Us Secure," by Julian Sanchez, Nation, January 29, 2010

"Your Boss and Your BlackBerry," by Timothy B. Lee, The New York Times, December 21, 2009

"'War on Terror' II," by Julian Sanchez, The Nation, October 19, 2009

"Obama's Disappointing Secrecy," by Benjamin H. Friedman, Christian Science Monitor, July 21, 2009

"Social Conventions, Online and Offline," by Timothy B. Lee, The New York Times, May 24, 2009

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Events

"Assessing the Options: REAL ID, PASS ID, or No National ID at All," July 24, 2009 [Capitol Hill Briefing]

"Just Give Us the Data! Prospects for Putting Government Information to Revolutionary New Uses ," December 10, 2008 [Policy Forum]

"The REAL ID Rebellion: Whither the National ID Law?," May 7, 2008 [Policy Forum]

"Funding the REAL ID Act: Improved Homeland Security or More Washington Waste?," July 20, 2007 [Capitol Hill Briefing]

"The REAL ID Act: Unfixed by the Regs and Unworkable on any Time Frame," March 12, 2007 [Capitol Hill Briefing]

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Speeches and Congressional Testimony

"Performance of the DC One Card Program," by Jim Harper, Testimony, October 9, 2009.

"Assessing Cybersecurity Activities at NIST and DHS," by Jim Harper, Testimony, June 25, 2009.

"Genetic Privacy," Cato Congressional Speech, September 12, 2002.

"The Presidency and the Privacy Act," by Roger Pilon, Testimony, September 8, 2000.

"The Bank Secrecy Act and Privacy," by Solveig Singleton, Testimony, April 20, 1999.

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Multimedia

Jim Harper discusses Google's threat on withdrawing from China on SkyNews January 13, 2010 [Flash Video, 03:52]

"Shoes, Undies and Airplane Security" featuring Jim Harper, January 7, 2010 [Flash Audio, 06:49]

"The New Muckrakers" featuring Mike Flynn, November 8, 2009 [Flash Audio, 10:11]

Jim Harper discusses White House spam on FOX's Special Report August 18, 2009 [Flash Video, 03:03]

Michael F. Cannon discusses health care reform and electronic records on FOX's America's Newsroom August 13, 2009 [Flash Video, 05:32]

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