Eagle Forum proudly supports the Saving Privacy Act (S. 5242). As technology advances and the federal government continues to collect more data on the American people, there is an increased risk of abuse from government surveillance.
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The internet’s rapid popularity and growth have proven to be helpful and harmful at the same time. Countless lawmakers have tried to craft bills to rein in the worst parts of the web without suppressing free speech or the free market.
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Today, most of our communication, information gathering, and commerce is conducted through smart devices and the internet. Unfortunately, we have been forced to sacrifice some freedom in exchange for more knowledge and convenience. Technology conglomerates have grown so large that they have the power to influence elections, indoctrinate kids, and take away people’s livelihoods.
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Editor’s Note: U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s daughter and son-in-law stand to become even wealthier now that Dad has threatened to launch investigations of any
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CAPITOL HILL REPORT January 19, 2019 Against the wishes of concerned citizens, a dangerous data-mining bill, the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act (H.R. 4174, “FEPA”),
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January 4, 2019 As we enter into 2019, Congress looks a bit different. With a Democrat majority in the House, barely a Republican majority in
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Tragically for our children’s futures and freedoms — but predictably, as we warned here and here — Congress heeded very few general principles or President Trump’s good ideas about preserving freedom and privacy, decreasing the federal footprint in education, supporting programs that work, or maintaining fiscal discipline.
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March 4, 2018 Congress will pass a budget soon and one of the areas of focus is education. We have seen such a large government
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What is it about bureaucrats and school personnel that they want to pry into the personal life and habits of American citizens of every age? There seems to be no end to the imperial demands by government and schools to require both grownups and kids to reveal personal information.
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The Obama Administration is now trying to get around FERPA by the subterfuge of having the states build the databases and assign each child a different ID number.
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President Barack Obama’s budget has added more than $100 billion of federal taxpayers’ money to what is called “education,” so that means it will be spent by alumni of the Saul Alinsky school of radical community organizing and/or the Chicago Democratic machine.
Continue reading →Far more personal information on students than is necessary is being collected by public schools, according to the Fordham Law School Center on Law and Information Policy, which investigated education records in all 50 states.
Continue reading →Barack Obama forced a bitter pill down the throats of Americans which the doctor did not order and patients do not want. Obama snuck into the stimulus bill a new system for rationing medical care, and he got Congress to ram it through the House and Senate without reading it.
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No one should be able to own facts about other people. Our names and numbers, and also the laws we must obey, should not be property that can be owned by corporations and policed by federal courts.
Continue reading →The current attempt to inflict Americans with the burden of having to carry a national ID card did not begin on 9-11 and, indeed, is unrelated to it. The attack on the World Trade Center is just a convenient excuse to promote this thoroughly un-American idea.
Continue reading →It isn’t just Social Security benefits that Americans are worried about; it’s the Social Security Number (SSN) itself.
Continue reading →When President George W. Bush gets around to appointing federal judges, the issue of parental rights should be a major criterion.
Continue reading →In earlier, simpler times, medical privacy was no problem. Your doctor recorded the date of your visit and his diagnosis and prescriptions in his inimitable illegible handwriting and put it safely in a manila folder where only he or his nurse would ever see it and nobody else could possibly read it.
Continue reading →Concerns have faded about a Y2K breakdown of government computers, but Americans should be worried about how computer efficiency gives the federal government extraordinary powers to monitor the daily activities of law-abiding Americans.
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