Excerpt from an article in Wednesday's Boston Globe:
http://boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/11/02/alito_writing_backed_privacy_gay_rights/
>PRINCETON, N.J. -- As a senior at Princeton University, Samuel A.
Alito Jr. chaired an undergraduate task force that recommended the
decriminalization of sodomy, accused the CIA and the FBI of invading the
privacy of citizens, and said discrimination against gays in hiring
''should be forbidden." The report, issued in 1971 by Alito and 16 other
Princeton students, stemmed from a class assignment to study the
''boundaries of privacy in American society" and to recommend ways to
protect individual rights.
It's hard to know how much of the report reflects Judge Alito's views on
privacy as an undergraduate. But after he spent a decade working for the
Justice Department, his position seems to be relatively police-friendly:
http://www.politechbot.com/2005/11/01/judge-samuel-alitos/
-Declan
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Alito Privacy Report on EPIC Web Site
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 21:11:38 -0500
From: Marc Rotenberg <rotenberg@private>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private>
Declan -
Samuel Alito's forward to the Princeton privacy report is available on
our web site.
http://www.epic.org/privacy/justices/alito/report110205.pdf
Here is our quick summary
EPIC has obtained a copy of the final report (pdf) prepared by
Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito for a 1972 conference on "the
Boundaries of Privacy in American Society." The paper proposes
far-reaching protections for the right of privacy, and
specifically addresses such topics as the use of census data,
polygraphs, domestic surveillance, communications privacy,
computer se
Marc Rotenberg
_______________________________________________
Politech mailing list
Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/
Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Wed Nov 02 2005 - 22:35:28 PST