Title: Policy Laundering and Privacy
1Policy Laundering and Privacy
2A Special Warning To US Allies
BE AFRAID!
BE VERY AFRAID!
Carnegie Mellon University March 23 2005 Barry S
teinhardt
3ACLU Now Facing New Challenges On A Global Scale
- Globalization of Security and Surveillance
- Policy Laundering
4Policy Laundering
- Cycling policies through international bodies
that cant be enacted directly at home
51st Signpost The Creation of a Global
Identification System
- National ID systems
- The globally interoperable biometric passport
6Biometric Passports
- Required by US Congress
- US launders standards through ICAO
7Biometric Passports
- Face-Recognition set as the standard
- RFID chips included too
- Standards allow for optional use of other
biometrics
8RFID Chips
- Can be read at a distance (20m in tests)
- see http//tinyurl.com/46vml
- No encryption
- Could enable tracking
9Expansion is inevitable
Once created, passports are likely to
- Be used for more and more purposes
- Contain ever-more information
- Incorporate more biometrics, such as fingerprints
and iris scans
10Passports wont exist in a vacuum
- National Identity systems
- Immigration database systems
- Passenger profiling systems
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11National Drivers License/National ID Card
- Part of 9/11 Intel Reform
- Standardizes Drivers Licenses
- Distributed database functionally equivalent to
National ID
12NGO input could have improved the product
- No RFID
- Local storage
- 1-1 checks
- biometric systems related to physical
characteristics which do not leave traces (e.g.
shape of the hand but not fingerprints)
13Policy Laundering Works NGOs Ignored!
142nd Signpost Creation of an Infrastructure for
the Global Surveillance of Movement
- Checkpoints and databases to track movements
using their ID cards
- Direct government access to airlines passenger
name records (PNR).
15Passenger Screening
August 2004 Secure Flight (CAPPS version 3.0)
Watch lists, commercial data
August 2003 CAPPS II (version 2.0) Commercial da
ta, Red light/Green light
- February 2002
- CAPPS II (version 1.0)
- Data mining, wide sharing, the works
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17Passenger Screening Foisted On Our Allies
- Must be international to work
- EU-US agreement reached over parliamentary
objection
- International agreements reached while domestic
program still embattled
183rd Signpost Infrastructure for Surveillance of
Electronic Communications and Financial
Transactions
- Expanded authorities for eavesdropping.
- Expansion of ECHELON.
- Expanded private-sector requirements.
- CALEA
- Data Retention
- Tracking and reporting of financial transactions
194th Signpost The Convergence of Databases
- US-VISIT system (tied to 20 other government
databases)
- Giant corporate data-brokers
20Total Information Blackout
21TIA --Gone But Not Forgotten
225th Signpost The Surveillance-Industrial Complex
- More tracking by private companies
- Government hooking into private efforts
- Growing government powers to demand access
- many businesses voluntarily surrendering
databases
- a surging industry of data companies is creating
new information products to sell to the U.S.
government.
23The Surveillance- Industrial Complex
24The Surveillance- Industrial Complex
256th Signpost Rendition, Torture, Death
- Torture
- Indefinite detention
- A frightening context for rising surveillance
- A shocking loss of moral compass in the war on
terror
- A significant number of victims mistakenly
arrested or otherwise innocent.
- Maher Arar case US intercepts and renders
Canadian to torture in Syria.
26Globalizing security agencies outstripping
restraints
- U.S. security agencies have obtained dramatic
expansions in their domestic authority
- Patriot Act, NSLs, etc.
- ACLU has been fighting hard against this
- But theres an entirely separate, global front in
this battle one that is in desperate need of a
global response.
27The ACLU must fight in global arena
- GOING GLOBAL
- Political activism
- Media
- Crime
- Law Enforcement and security
28Law Enforcement going global, but oversight
hasnt kept pace
- Reporters
- Legislative oversight
- NGOs
29ACLU is already advancing aggressively toward
these goals
- Organizing The International Campaign Against
Mass Surveillance (ICAMS) March 2005
- Policy Laundering Project --In Partnership
Privacy International and Statewatch (April
2005)
30ACLU concentrating on 4 primary goals
- 1. Build international coalitions
- 2. Increase capacity to monitor IGOs
- 3. Work closely with our colleagues on the
ground
- 4. Push to open up IGO policy-making
311. Building international coalitions.
- Encouraging advocates in Europe, Asia, Africa,
and Latin America to become involved in this
critical issue.
- Foreign publics often unaware of security
agreements and domestic ministers too!
- Staff has already been hired in London
322. Increasing our capacity to monitor and
influence international processes
- ICAO we dont want a repeat
- Create action information center
- Launch FOIA-type requests around the world
333. Working closely with our colleagues on the
ground
- NGOs
- Privacy Commissioners
344. Pushing to open up multinational
decision-making bodies
- Force international standards policy groups to
follow widely accepted principles of openness and
public oversight
- Craft model proposals for open operations
- Advocate for passage of these proposals
35ACLU has successfully adapted and led time and
again. . .
- Civil rights
- Womens rights
- Gay rights
- Advent of television and mass media
- Explosion of a new online world
36With Your HelpWe Can Again!