We write to you as a nonpartisan coalition of organizations from across the
country to urge you to adopt an amendment to the pending Homeland Security
Act that would stop further development of a Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA) system called "Total Information Awareness" (TIA).
According to DARPA's own documents, TIA will collect and mine vast amounts
of information on the American public, including telephone records, bank records,
medical records, and educational and travel data. TIA also proposes to connect
with a massive system of biometric identification.
There are no systems of oversight or accountability contemplated in the TIA
project. DARPA itself has resisted lawful requests for information about the
program pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act.
Newspapers across the country have blasted the Department of Defense surveillance
system. The New York Times said today that "Congress should shut down
the program pending a thorough investigation." Earlier the Washington
Post wrote, "the defense secretary should appoint an outside committee
to oversee it before it proceeds."
We urge you to act immediately to stop the development of this unconstitutional
system of public surveillance.
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Marc Rotenberg
Executive Director
Electronic Privacy Information Center
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Chris Hoofnagle
Legislative Counsel
Electronic Privacy Information Center
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Lisa Dean
Director
Center for Technology Policy
Free Congress Foundation
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Ken McEldowney
Executive Director
Consumer Action
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James Landrith
Editor & Publisher
The Multiracial Activist
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Nihad Awad
Executive Director
Council on American-Islamic Relations |
Kit Gage
Director
First Amendment Foundation
Director
National Committee Against Repressive Legislation
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Kathryn Serkes
President
Square One Media Network |
Beth Givens
Director
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
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Steven Aftergood
Senior Research Analyst
Federation of American Scientists |
Remar Sutton
Coordinator
Privacy Rights Now Coalition
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J.C. Pierce
Director
Consumer Task Force For Automotive Issues |
Lee Tien
Senior Staff Attorney
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Michael Shames
Executive Director
Utility Consumers' Action Network |
Jane M. Orient M.D.
Executive Director
Association of American Physicians & Surgeons
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David A. Wallace
Assistant Professor
School of Information
University of Michigan
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Katie Corrigan
Legislative Counsel
American Civil Liberties Union
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Manon Ress
Research Associate
Consumer Project of Technology |
Lynne Bradley
Deputy Director
Office of Government Relations
American Library Association Washington Office
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Kelly Garrett
Doctoral Student
School of Information
University of Michigan |
Dr. Charles N. Davis
Executive Director
Kathleen Edwards
Center Manager
Kristin Birks
Web Manager
Jennifer M. Schmidt
Financial Manager
Freedom of Information Center
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Michael D. Cohen
William D. Hamilton Professor of Complex Systems, Information, and Public
Policy
School of Information
University of Michigan
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Kathy Williams
Managing editor
Herald Democrat (Sherman-Denison, Texas)
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Margaret Fung
Executive Director
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund |
Prudence S. Adler
Associate Executive Director
Association of Research Libraries
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Stephanie Krueger-Blum
University of Michigan |
Hannah Chua
Graduate Student
University of Michigan
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Coralee Whitcomb
President
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility |
Robert L. Oakley
Washington Affairs Representative
American Association of Law Libraries
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Phyllis Schlafly
President
Eagle Forum |
George Getz
Communications Director
Libertarian Party
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Evan Hendricks
Editor and Publisher
Privacy Times
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Dawn Richardson
President
Parents Requesting Open Vaccine Education
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Michael Arnold Glueck MD
Syndicated Columnist
The Medicine Men Column |
Danielle Brian
Executive Director
Project On Government Oversight
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Audrie Krause
Executive Director
NetAction |
Jean AbiNader
Managing Director
Arab American Institute
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Richard Sobel
Cyber Privacy Project
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Mary Day Kent
Executive Director
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, US Section
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Michael Scott
Center for Economic and Social Rights |
Tom DeWeese
President
American Policy Center
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Jason Catlett
President
Junkbusters Corp.
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Jeff Chester
Executive Director
Center for Digital Democracy
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Linda Foley
Executive Director
Identity Theft Resource Center
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Maggie Bierwirth
Senior Legislative Counsel
People For the American Way
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Deborah Pierce
Executive Director
PrivacyActivism |
J. Bradley Jansen
Adjunct Scholar
Competitive Enterprise Institute
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Richard M. Smith
Internet Security and Privacy Consultant |
James Plummer
Policy Analyst
Consumer Alert |
Robert Bulmash
President
Private Citizen, Inc.
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Sharifa Alkhateeb
President
The North American Council for Muslim Women
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Susan K. Martin, Ph.D.
Program Officer for Scholarly Communication
Association of College and Research Libraries |
Carole Doeppers
Privacy Consultant |
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