Jim Harper was executive vice president at the Competitive Enterprise Institute until 2018. Previously, Harper was a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.
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CEI Files Brief in Microsoft Supreme Court Case, Argues for Consumer Privacy Protections
This week, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) filed a Supreme Court amicus brief in support of the respondent in United States v.
CEI Comments on White House Call to End Social Security Numbers
CEI Vice President Jim Harper commented on the White House’s call for the end of social security numbers in light of the recent Equifax…
Equifax Data Breach Evidence that Congress Should Deregulate Credit Reporting
Competitive Enterprise Institute Vice President Jim Harper commented on the Equifax data breach. “When Congress passed the Fair Credit Reporting Act forty-five years ago,…
Blog
Chuck Schumer’s Unconstitutional Money-Wasting Machine
- By: Jim Harper
If you wanted a counterterrorism technology that could match Amtrak in terms of derailments, you couldn’t do much better than to use “stand-off explosive detection…
Is Administrative Law Unlawful?
- By: Jim Harper
Philip Hamburger's book Is Administrative Law Unlawful? will remind readers that much of modern bureaucracy violates the careful separation of powers that the Framers wrote into…
CEI Asks Supreme Court to Review Ulbricht Conviction
- By: Jim Harper
CEI has joined an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the conviction of Ross Ulbricht, who is currently serving a life sentence…
Op-Eds/Articles
CoinDesk
Victory Lap? 2017 Was Bitcoin’s Backwards Year
- By: Jim Harper
2017 was another gloriously miserable year for bitcoin. As in 2016, gains in the price of bitcoin belie deep deficits in the cryptocurrency world.
The Wall Street Journal
Is It Unreasonable to Expect Cellphone Privacy?
- By: Jim Harper
A case that comes before the Supreme Court Wednesday may erode or solidify Justice Antonin Scalia’s legacy. How the justices decide in Carpenter v. U.S. won’t matter…
SCOTUSblog
Symposium: Granular Analysis Versus Doctrine in Carpenter
- By: Jim Harper
The outcome of Carpenter v. United States will turn on how granular the Supreme Court is in analyzing what happens when government agents require…
Studies
The New National ID Systems
- By: Jim Harper
View Full Document as PDF The past few years have seen growing awareness and concern about U.S. government surveillance of the American…
Citations
Reason
National I.D. By Any Other Name Still Stinks
- By: Jim Harper
Reason covers the release of a new report published by the Cato Institute and authored by Jim Harper. There have been many pushes to…
Bloomberg Politics
China Uses Facial Recognition to Fence In Villagers in Far West
- By: Jim Harper
Bloomberg Politics discusses new surveillance technology being tested in China with Jim Harper. China’s state surveillance apparatus is trying out a new tool in…
The New York Times
Blockchain or Blockheads? Bitcoin Mania Mints Believers and Skeptics
- By: Jim Harper
John Schwartz, writing for The New York Times, discusses Bitcoin with Jim Harper. Sometimes life shows you what absurd really…
Regulatory Comments
Testimony to Alaska Senate Committee on REAL ID Act (SB34)
- By: Jim Harper
View Full Document as PDF Chairman Dunleavy and Members of the Committee: I am pleased to speak with you today about the…
Testimony to Minnesota Senate Judiciary Committee on REAL ID Act (SF166)
- By: Jim Harper
View Full Document as PDF Chairman Limmer, Vice Chairman Hall, Ranking Member Latz, and Members of the Committee: I am pleased to…