The Practical Nomad; Why I'm suing the Department of Homeland Security

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This is an article from one of my Union brothers.

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Today the First Amendment Project is filing a lawsuit on my behalf against
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (one of the divisions of the Department
of Homeland Security) for violating the Privacy Act and the Freedom Of
Information Act (FOIA) by refusing to disclose their records of my
travels, what they did with my requests for my records, and how they
index, search for, and retrieve these travel surveillance records.

According to the complaint in Hasbrouck v. CBP filed today with the U.S
District Court in San Francisco:

"This complaint concerns the failure to disclose records regarding the
warrantless, suspicionless dragnet collection and maintenance of Federal
government records of the travel, activities, and other personal
information concerning U.S. citizens not accused of any crime...."

I've never sued anyone before in my life, or been sued by anyone. It's not
something I want to do, or that I'd do lightly.

More at link: http://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/001887.html

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