"Secure Flight"

URL: <http://secure-flight.info/>

Presentation:

Kim Taipale, CAS Executive Director, "Public Safety vs. Personal Privacy: The Case For and Against Secure Flight" [download presentation slides PDF]

Related Research: Trusted Systems Project

Other material:

K. A. Taipale, "Technology, Security and Privacy: The Fear of Frankenstein, the Mythology of Privacy and the Lessons of King Ludd," 7 Yale J. L. & Tech. 123; 9 Int'l J. Comm. L. & Pol'y 8 (Dec. 2004).

K. A. Taipale, "Data Mining and Domestic Security: Connecting the Dots to Make Sense of Data," 5 Colum. Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 2 (Dec. 2003) [executive summary PDF]

K. A. Taipale, CAS Executive Director, "Identification Systems and Domestic Security: Who's Who in Whoville" [download presentation slides PDF]

K. A. Taipale, Who's Who in Whoville? "Congress should not rush to legislate a massive government identity surveillance system under the press of a politically expedient deadline without considering alternatives that can meet legitimate law enforcement and national security needs while still protecting privacy," PLENSIA conference in New York on October 29, 2005. [Full Statement]

K. A. Taipale, "Designing Technical Systems to Support Policy: Enterprise Architecture, Policy Appliances, and Civil Liberties," Chapter 9.4 in "21st Century Enabling Technologies and Policies for Counter-Terrorism" (Robert Popp and John Yen, eds., IEEE Press, forthcoming 2005). [intro]

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