On February 15 the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved legislation with provisions to strengthen President Bush’s Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. The provisions were part of a bill, the “Improving America’s Security Act of 2007” (S. 4), aimed at implementing unfulfilled recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. Full text of the 227-page S. 4 bill is available online.

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Before the U.S. House adjourned Febuary 16 and the Senate adjourned February 17 for a week-long recess, they submitted some bills with privacy impacts.

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Before the U.S. House adjourned Febuary 16 and the Senate adjourned February 17 for a week-long recess, they submitted some bills with privacy impacts.

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