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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

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

"Who Is Watching the Watchmen?," by Gene Healy, DC Examiner, May 5, 2009

"Obama Shrugs Off Concerns," by Nat Hentoff, Washington Times, April 20, 2009

"Real ID Laws Are a National Catastrophe," by Jim Harper, Delaware County Times, August 24, 2008

"The New FISA Compromise: It's Worse than You Think," by Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, July 7, 2008

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Events

"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]

Speeches and Congressional Testimony

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

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

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

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

"Privacy Issues in Federal Systems: A Constitutional Perspective," by Solveig Singleton, speech before the National Institute of Standards and Technology Computer System Security and Privacy Advisory Board Meeting, March 17, 1999.

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Multimedia

"PASS ID: A Kinder, Gentler National ID Card" featuring Jim Harper, July 7, 2009 [Flash Audio, 05:51]

"Cybersecurity: A Meaningless Term" featuring Jim Harper, July 2, 2009 [Flash Audio, 06:33]

Jim Harper discusses Obama's cyber infrastructure plan on CNBC May 29, 2009 [Flash Video, 05:21]

Cato scholars dissect transgressions in the tax code. April 14, 2009 [Flash Video, 04:10]

Jim Harper speaks at a Security & Privacy Panel on C-SPAN 3 March 6, 2009 [Flash Video, 09:41]

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