Travel and Privacy, Surveillance, Civil Liberties, and Human Rights
Articles, presentations, and interviews by Edward Hasbrouck, author of “The Practical Nomad” and consultant to the Identity Project (PapersPlease.org)
“Liberty of movement is an indispensable condition for the free development of a person.”
[United Nations Human Rights Committee, General Comment No. 27: Freedom of movement; used as the epigraph to the 4th and 5th editions of The Practical Nomad: How to Travel Around the World]
- FAQs about Travel Privacy
- Airline reservations insecurity: “record locators” as passwords for access to PNR data
- FAQs about Freedom of Movement as a Human Right
- Travel FAQs and white papers from the Identity Project (PapersPlease.org)
- Briefings and interviews on travel privacy, surveillance, civil liberties, and human rights:
- Video briefings:
- Public radio interviews:
- Print interviews:
- Interviews and articles in other languages:
- Testimony on travel privacy, surveillance, civil liberties, and human rights
- Edward Hasbrouck v. U.S. Customs and Border Protection
- Responses to requests for records about my travel
- Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) and Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection (CPDP) conferences
- Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening 2 (CAPPS-II): “Total Travel Information Awareness” (CFP 2003, New York, NY)
- Travel Data and Privacy (CFP 2004, Berkeley, CA)
- Travel ID and the Travel Panopticon (CFP 2005, Seattle, WA)
- RFID chips in passports (CFP 2005, Seattle)
- Your Reputation Precedes You: The Transfer of European Union Passenger Name Records to the U.S. and Canada (CFP 2007, Montréal)
- Recent Developments in the USA in Relation to the Protection of Travel Data (CPDP 2009, Brussels)
- SWIFT, PNR, and more: European cooperation with USA dataveillance in the “war on terror” (CFP 2010, San Jose, CA)
- A Clash of Civilizations? The EU and US Negotiate the Future of Privacy (Opening plenary, CFP 2011, Washington, DC)
- President Trump, Populist Politics, and the Prospects for Privacy (CPDP 2017, Brussels)
- Updates and More
"Don't believe anything just because you read it on the Internet. Anyone can say anything on the Internet, and they do.
The Internet is the most effective medium in history for the rapid global propagation of rumor, myth, and false information."
(From The Practical Nomad Guide to the Online Travel Marketplace, 2001)
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