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MI Rep Opsommer Blasts High Costs of Passports, Senator Schumer for Border Plan
GOPHouse.gov December 2, 2011
State Rep. Paul Opsommer, Chair of the Michigan House Transportation Committee, today criticized Senator Charles Schumer’s recently announced border plan, calling it “more of the same half-baked federal solutions that make the very problems they created even worse.”
Opsommer pointed out that it has been roughly five years since the Government Accountability Office issued a scathing report saying that not only could the federal government not justify the high price of passports, but that they didn’t even have a process in place to make sure passports hadn’t been turned into a profit center.
To add insult to injury, federal passport prices have been increased since that report was released, and Schumer was quoted by WGRZ Channel 2 as saying that the cost of new mobile application centers would not increase prices because “It’ll come out of the fee, you pay for the fee, and there’s enough money in the fees to pay for these things.”
Opsommer said that statement proves that once again they are charging too much.
“If you can start buying and outfitting all these new high tech mobile homes without raising prices because existing fees already cover it, then by definition the fees were too high to begin with,” said Opsommer, R-DeWitt. “If the federal government is determined to use behavioral economics to accomplish their goals, if anything they should be making traditional federal passports less expensive and fully tax deductible. The federal government needs to stop using behavioral economics to try to manipulate people away from traditional federal passports through high costs and unjustifiable delays in processing.”
Opsommer also disagreed on the reason why NEXUS cards and Enhanced Driver’s Licenses were failing to catch on, and said that the mobile busses would be a waste of time.
“If Schumer wants to use his clout in Washington to help border states such as Michigan, he should be reining in federal bureaucrats who are trying to force citizens to accept long range wireless computer chips in our driver’s licenses,” said Opsommer. “Those RFID chips are different than the ones used in federal passports, and Schumer’s refusal to let states create unobtrusive trusted traveler documents is the real reason why Enhanced Drivers Licenses have been such a dismal failure in New York and Michigan,”
Opsommer also said that creating more RFID only car lanes is just another example of using behavioral economics to manipulate people into courses of action that they otherwise wouldn’t take.
“People don’t like to feel that they are being pushed around, tracked, and controlled,” said Opsommer. “If Schumer thinks more RFID lanes is the answer, all he has to do is look at how people responded to the new ‘High Occupancy Toll’ lanes in Georgia. Trying to make people so miserable to wear them down into compliance won’t work in Michigan, and if you look at states or provinces like Arizona and Saskatchewan that have banned these outright I don’t think they’re going to work elsewhere either.”
Opsommer said that despite resolutions passed both in Michigan and with the National Conference of State Legislators that the federal government refuses to attack the real problem at its most basic level.
“We need to be able to come up with a $25 dollar passport, and a passport that only takes a couple of weeks to process. Instead we’re charging through the roof for them and having the chips manufactured overseas. If Schumer agrees that international trade is as important as I do, we need to address this problem at its core and not to use it opportunistically to try to force people into something. I don’t care how many big busses he sends to senior citizen centers or places of employment to try to enroll everyone in his system, it’s not going to work.”
Opsommer concluded by calling on Congress to take control of the Enhanced Driver’s License program away from bureaucrats and to hold the federal Department of State and Department of Homeland Security accountable.
“Let’s keep all of this simple,” said Opsommer. “Make this a priority by getting your passport house in order and start lowering prices.”
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Facebook saves everything forever, has ‘shadow profiles’ for non-users
From http://www.identityblog.com/?p=1201
no date topic status files 01 18-AUG-2011 Pokes.
Pokes are kept even after the user “removes” them.Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
Attachments (ZIP)02 18-AUG-2011 Shadow Profiles.
Facebook is collecting data about people without their knowledge. This information is used to substitute existing profiles and to create profiles of non-users.Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
Attachments (ZIP)03 18-AUG-2011 Tagging.
Tags are used without the specific consent of the user. Users have to “untag” themselves (opt-out).
Info: Facebook announced changes.Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
Attachments (ZIP)04 18-AUG-2011 Synchronizing.
Facebook is gathering personal data e.g. via its iPhone-App or the “friend finder”. This data is used by Facebook without the consent of the data subjects.Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
Attachments (ZIP)05 18-AUG-2011 Deleted Postings.
Postings that have been deleted showed up in the set of data that was received from Facebook.Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
Attachments (ZIP)06 18-AUG-2011 Postings on other Users’ Pages.
Users cannot see the settings under which content is distributed that they post on other’s pages.Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
Attachments (ZIP)07 18-AUG-2011 Messages.
Messages (incl. Chat-Messages) are stored by Facebook even after the user “deleted” them. This means that all direct communication on Facebook can never be deleted.Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
Attachments (ZIP)08 18-AUG-2011 Privacy Policy and Consent.
The privacy policy is vague, unclear and contradictory. If European and Irish standards are applied, the consent to the privacy policy is not valid.Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
Attachments (ZIP)09 18-AUG-2011 Face Recognition.
The new face recognition feature is an inproportionate violation of the users right to privacy. Proper information and an unambiguous consent of the users is missing.Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
Attachments (ZIP)10 18-AUG-2011 Access Request.
Access Requests have not been answered fully. Many categories of information are missing.Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
Attachments (ZIP)11 18-AUG-2011 Deleted Tags.
Tags that were “removed” by the user, are only deactivated but saved by Facebook.Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
Attachments (ZIP)12 18-AUG-2011 Data Security.
In its terms, Facebook says that it does not guarantee any level of data security.Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
Attachments (ZIP)13 18-AUG-2011 Applications.
Applications of “friends” can access data of the user. There is no guarantee that these applications are following European privacy standards.Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
Attachments (ZIP)14 18-AUG-2011 Deleted Friends.
All removed friends are stored by Facebook.Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
Attachments (ZIP)15 18-AUG-2011 Excessive processing of Data.
Facebook is hosting enormous amounts of personal data and it is processing all data for its own purposes.
It seems Facebook is a prime example of illegal “excessive processing”.Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
Attachments (ZIP)16 18-AUG-2011 Opt-Out.
Facebook is running an opt-out system instead of an opt-in system, which is required by European law.Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
Attachments (ZIP)24-AUG-2011 Letter from the Irish DPC. Letter (PDF) 15-SEPT-2011 Letter to the Irish DPC concerning the new privacy policy and new settings on Facebook. Letter (PDF) 17 19-SEPT-2011 Like Button.
The Like Button is creating extended user data that can be used to track users all over the internet. There is no legitimate purpose for the creation of the data. Users have not consented to the use.Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
Attachments (ZIP)18 19-SEPT-2011 Obligations as Processor.
Facebook has certain obligations as a provider of a “cloud service” (e.g. not using third party data for its own purposes or only processing data when instructed to do so by the user).Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
Attachments (ZIP)19 19-SEPT-2011 Picture Privacy Settings.
The privacy settings only regulate who can see the link to a picture. The picture itself is “public” on the internet. This makes it easy to circumvent the settings.Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
Attachments (ZIP)20 19-SEPT-2011 Deleted Pictures.
Facebook is only deleting the link to pictures. The pictures are still public on the internet for a certain period of time (more than 32 hours).Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
Attachments (ZIP)21 19-SEPT-2011 Groups.
Users can be added to groups without their consent. Users may end up in groups that lead other to false impressions about a person.Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
Attachments (ZIP)22 19-SEPT-2011 New Policies.
The policies are changed very frequently, users do not get properly informed, they are not asked to consent to new policies.Filed with the Irish DPC Complaint (PDF)
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