With respect to the Privacy Act, I think that the executive order was passed, quite frankly and unfortunately, to enable this office to be created for victims of crimes committed by immigrants. There is unfortunate rhetoric going on about publicizing crimes committed by immigrants and therefore needing to strip Privacy Act protections in order to share that information with the public. We've already seen one unfortunate effect of this, which is that a recently published database that purported to be providing information about immigrants who had allegedly committed crimes contained information about victims of domestic violence and abuse, individuals whose information should be protected. It certainly puts them at risk if this this information is publicly shared. I think the goal of creating that office is connected to the Privacy Act executive order.
Certainly in our letter to the European Parliament and the European Commission, we highlighted how this undermines that agreement and, again, in our advocacy in the United States, we also point out that the reciprocity concern is real. Americans travelling to other countries may be asked for similar information—social media passwords, email addresses, and for access to their phones—which should be a huge concern to the U.S. government as well.