Director of the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Programs for the Department of Homeland Security spoke with the Privacy Coalition on September 28, 2007 about the development of DHS Civil Liberties Impact Assessment process.

The Privacy Coalition was briefed on the new Department of Homeland Security SSN No Match Letters; FISA Amendments, Medical Privacy, and the new Illinois Public School Biometric Privacy Law.

The House Committee on Department of Homeland Security's Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment held a hearing September 27, 2007, at 10:00 a.m., 311 Cannon House Office Building on the topic of “The Way Forward With Fusion Centers: Challenges and Strategies for Change.”

House Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing on September 18, 2007 on Warrantless Surveillance and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: The Role of Checks and Balances in Protecting Americans’ Privacy Rights (Part II)

The House Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing September 5, 2007 on Warrantless Surveillance and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: The Role of Checks and Balances in Protecting Americans’ Privacy Rights.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), along with Subcommittee Chairmen Jerrold Nadler and Robert "Bobby" C. Scott, sent a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, following weekend reports that disputes over the NSA's terrorist surveillance program involved "massive electronic databases." The full text of the letter is attached below.