Computer Expert Urges Identity Verification Safeguards for Employee Eligibility Systems; Neumann's Congressional Testimony Warns of Risks to Personal Privacy, System Integrity.

AScribe Law News Service, June, 2007

Byline: Association for Computing Machinery

NEW YORK, June 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- At a Congressional hearing today on security and privacy issues affecting efforts to verify employee eligibility, Peter G. Neumann testified on behalf of the U.S. Public Policy Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery (USACM) that many risks confront the complex systems requiring employers to submit identifying information on current and prospective employees, as envisioned in pending legislation. Dr. Neumann, Principal Scientist in the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI International, urged Congress to create the right incentives for operators and employers to maximize the achievement of U.S. immigration laws that mandate employee eligibility verification while...

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