Dave, It has come to light that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) signed a secret agreement with the Centers for Disease Control to share airline passenger information. This despite the fact that a public comment period is underway before the CDC over that agency's effort to institute its own CAPPS II/Secure Flight-style airline data collection regime. And, despite the fact that such sharing appears to violate the conditions of the US-EU agreement that was reached to allow the sharing of European passenger data with the US government. The secret agreement was referenced in a little-noticed paragraph in comments filed with the CDC by the Air Transport Association. We have filed a FOIA seeking information on the agreement. A press release as well as our FOIA and our previous comments on the issue to the CDC can be found athttp://www.aclu.org/privacy/spying/ 25246prs20060421.html An article on the secret agreement, which was first noticed by Federal Computer Week, is online at http://www.fcw.com/ article94142-04-20-06-Web The ATA's comments to the CDC, which includes the paragraph disclosing the agreement on page 5, is at http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/ dq/nprm/comments/2006Mar1_ATA.pdf Barry Steinhardt Director Technology and Liberty Project ACLU Director Technology and Liberty Project ACLU 125 Broad Street NYC 10004 212 549 2508 (o) 917 412 7139 (mobile) ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as eugen@leitl.org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]