Individual Privacy & Federal Agencies

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Advantages of Federalism for Privacy Protection The arguments for frderalism on the privacy topic are powerful and multifacited. For general background and lots of evidence see AEI's Federalism Project web site. ------ Watching You! Systematic Federal Surveillance of Ordinary Americans by Charlotte Twight, Fall 1999 (Independent Review) Journal article details the amazing degree that the federal government invades personal privacy. Twight, a professor of economics at Boise State University, begins with this chilling scenario... ----- Feds Urged to Beef Up Spying by Declan McCullagh, June 9, 2000 (Wired News) Congress must give federal police more eavesdropping abilities and increase the budgets of spy agencies, members of a federal commission are recommending. According to the commission, The Justice Department is "overly cautious" when forwarding requests for wiretaps and electronic surveillance to a secret court established in 1978 for that purpose... -----