[privacy] JPL Scientists Stand Up To Government For Right To Privacy

[Paul Ferguson]

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Via The Wired Blog Network.

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Next week 28 NASA Jet Propulsion Lab scientists (including William Banerdt,
a project scientist on the Mars rover program) will fight for their right
to privacy in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena,
California.

They are fighting against Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12
(HSPD-12) that President Bush issued in August 2004. Policies resulting
from the directive requires all federal employees and contractors to
"voluntarily" (JPL employees would be terminated immediately for
non-compliance) sign a form allowing the government the right to
investigate them "without limit" for two years- even if they leave
government work during that time.

The directive is meant to confirm the identity of all government employees
and give them new high-tech badges, the JPL scientists say they have gone
too far.

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More:
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/11/jpl-scientists.html

Props /.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/29/2058211

- - ferg

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