Telecom, Internet & Information Policy > Privacy Issues
Books and Book Chapters
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).
"Regulation of Electronic Speech and Commerce," Chapter 14, Cato Handbook for Congress: Policy Recommendations for the 108th Congress (2003).
"National ID Cards and Military Tribunals," Chapter 13, Cato Handbook for Congress: Policy Recommendations for the 108th Congress (2003).
"Homeland Security," Chapter 6, Cato Handbook for Congress: Policy Recommendations for the 108th Congress (2003).
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
Articles and Newsletters
"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.
"The Pentagon's Total Information Awareness Project: Americans Under the Microscope?" by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., TechKnowledge no. 45, November 26, 2002.
Opinion and Commentary
"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
"Can E-Verify Help Stem Tide of Illegal Immigration?," by Jim Harper, Daily Herald, March 30, 2008
"Sanford Should Stand Up to Fed Bullying Over REAL IDs," by Jim Harper, Charleston Post-Courier, March 27, 2008
"Limits on Eavesdropping Need to Stay," by Timothy B. Lee and Gene Healy, Orange County Register, February 19, 2008
Events
"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]
"Identity Crisis: How Identification Is Overused and Misunderstood," January 18, 2007 [Book Forum]
Speeches and Congressional Testimony
"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.
"Know Your Customer Proposal," Solveig Singleton, Congressional Testimony, March 4, 1999.
Multimedia
Jim Harper discusses e-verify on CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight July 22, 2008 [Flash Video, 02:44]
"Obama's FISA Flip Flop" featuring Timothy B. Lee, July 10, 2008 [Flash Audio, 06:27]
"How to Edify E-Verify" featuring Jim Harper, July 9, 2008 [Flash Audio, 06:58]
"McCain's FISA Flip Flop" featuring Timothy B. Lee, June 13, 2008 [Flash Audio, 06:33]
"REAL ID Rebels" featuring Gov. Mark Sanford, May 15, 2008 [Flash Audio, 10:18]
