Homeland Security playing big brother role

DHS vs. the Privacy Act. The Privacy Act lost.

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Bruce

'The federal government has adopted a new rule providing more secrecy for its shadowy “fusion” centers, where investigators look at all sorts of private information that could impact administrative or criminal and civil “enforcement” actions.
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It is being publicized by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, which had urged the government to back off its plan.

“The Department of Homeland Security issued a final rule exempting its Operations System from various Privacy Act safeguards, including provisions that permit individuals to access information about them held by the agency,” EPIC reported.
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The action, EPIC explained, stands “the purpose of the Privacy Act on its head, making personal information widely available across the government while preventing individuals from learning what information about them has been obtained or how it will be used.”'