#160: Privacy at the Border

Tech Policy Podcast

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4.8 • 45 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

What are the privacy rights of non-US citizens? The Trump Administration’s crackdown on immigration has dominated the headlines. But while most of the focus is understandably on detentions and deportations, privacy could actually decide who stays and who goes in some cases. A recent executive order reverses long-standing policies that gave certain non-US persons rights under the Privacy Act, including limits on dissemination and the right to access information and seek corrections. How will this impact immigrants and refugees? What role should Congress play? Evan discusses with Neema Guliani, Legislative Counsel for the ACLU in DC.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Policy Podcast. I'm Evan Svastrober. On today's show, the privacy of immigrants.
0:08.8	Donald Trump has made a lot of headlines recently and caused a lot of concern with action on immigration, particularly focusing on rounding people up and sending them back to their home country.
0:17.9	But what about the intangible effects of his stance on immigration? What about
0:22.0	data and privacy? And how is the internet implicated in this crackdown on immigration?
0:28.4	Joining me to discuss this is Nima Giuliani, Legislative Council at the American Civil Liberties
0:33.0	Union, better known as the ACLU, here in Washington, D.C. Nima, thanks for joining the show.
0:37.6	Thanks for having me. So, of course, the ACLU has been Washington, D.C. Nima, thanks for joining the show. Thanks for having me.
0:38.6	So, of course, the ACLU has been in the news a lot lately.
0:41.7	Your organization has been serving as a buffer to the crackdown on immigration.
0:46.4	And certainly people were either happy or not happy to see the ACLU sending lawyers to the airports
0:53.8	during the big blowup over
0:56.0	immigration. But you're a tech policy person and you're focusing a lot on the privacy of
1:01.5	immigrants, not just whether they're allowed to stay in the country. And recently, an executive
1:05.6	order has changed the way that the information about immigrants is used, handled, and stored.
1:12.0	And even more recently, over this past weekend, memos were leaked indicating how the Trump
1:17.6	administration plans to deal with this. So just to start out before we dive into the weeds here,
1:24.9	what is the Privacy Act? So the Privacy Act is, you know, an act that's
1:31.1	quite old, but essentially what it does is for people who are citizens or green card holders. It
1:37.2	gives them basic privacy protections. It puts in place limits on when the government can share
1:42.7	their private information. It allows them to access records that the government may hold about them.
1:48.0	And in the case where there are deficiencies or inaccuracy in those records,
1:52.0	it allows them to actually, you know, reach out to the government and request corrections.
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