BTC - While racial profiling potentials dominate media coverage of Arizona's new law, SB 1070, the privacy concerns of those profiled have been overshadowed. Tempe Ariz. resident, David Huerta, a privacy code engineer for Haystackproject.org, expressed concerns about massive transfer of citizen data and how the handling of his private information could be insecure. Huerta is also a speaker this week at the Computing, Freedom and Privacy Conference in San Jose, Calif.
Unfortunately for Huerta, and other hispanics, Arizona's law enforcement will not be trained on any additional privacy handling practices specific to SB 1070, according to Executive Director, Lyle Mann, for Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board. No privacy impact assessments were conveyed to AZPOST, the agency who develops training for Arizona's law enforcement practices. Agencies responsible for policies to implement to the new law are the Arizona's Sherriff's Departments, the Arizona Department of Public Safety and any agency who may recruited as First Responders.
Law enforcement training to implement SB 1070 is expected to commence soon according to DPS Seargant, Kevin Wood. Privacy impact assessments for the new law were unkown or unavailable to Seargant Wood. Officers may be responsible for enforcing the law as soon as July, 29th 2010.
2 comments:
What does law enforcement privacy training have to do with the massive transfer of data?
Two completely separate things.
It appears concerns about privacy impacts in SB 1070 were almost entirely overlooked when it came to how to enforce the law.
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