Harper: One to Watch in 2009

by on February 5, 2009 · 6 comments

I’m pleased and humbled to have been named one of the Ars Technica/Tech Policy Central “People to Watch” in 2009. Along with my opposition to the REAL ID national identification scheme, they cite my work opposing the E-Verify national worker background check system (which would ultimately require a national ID).

Considering how the economic stimulus bill may be a vehicle for mandating broader use of E-Verify, the first thing you might see from watching me in 2009 might be an angry and disappointed advocate for liberty.

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About Jim Harper

Jim Harper is the Director of Information Policy Studies at The Cato Institute, the Editor of Web-based privacy think-tank Privacilla.org, and the Webmaster of WashingtonWatch.com. A Poli Sci major at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Jim served as Editor-in-Chief of the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly in his final year at Hastings College of the Law. Prior to becoming a policy analyst and advocate, Jim served as counsel to committees in both the U.S. House and Senate. He avoids genuine life experience by watching lots and lots of reality TV.

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  • MikeRT

    Congratulations!

    So, how do you think citizenship and immigration status should be verified?

    The standard libertarian open-borders “let anyone hire anyone they want” is unviable, unless you seriously believe (in defiance of history) that allowing a massive wave of foreigners to come live here is ultimately good for the culture and political system. This libertarian position is being proved increasingly unviable as a long-term strategy for protecting individual liberty as shown by incidents like this one.

  • http://breakthematrix.com Shelly Roche

    CONGRATS! I adore TechLiberation, and am quite excited to see you getting much-deserved exposure :)

    I twitter and breakthematrix your articles frequently – keep up the outstanding work, and thanks for doing what you're doing.

    -Shelly Roche (i'm CTO for breakthematrix.com – liberty-oriented media site)

  • Jim Harper

    Thanks, MikeRT and Shelly.

    And congratulations to you, MikeRT, for packing a few short paragraphs with so many false premises, invalid assumptions, and errors!

  • Jim Harper

    Thanks, MikeRT and Shelly.

    And congratulations to you, MikeRT, for packing a few short paragraphs with so many false premises, invalid assumptions, and errors!

  • http://breakthematrix.com Shelly Roche

    CONGRATS! I adore TechLiberation, and am quite excited to see you getting much-deserved exposure :)

    I twitter and breakthematrix your articles frequently – keep up the outstanding work, and thanks for doing what you're doing.

    -Shelly Roche (i'm CTO for breakthematrix.com – liberty-oriented media site)

  • Jim Harper

    Thanks, MikeRT and Shelly.

    And congratulations to you, MikeRT, for packing a few short paragraphs with so many false premises, invalid assumptions, and errors!

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