Day archives: June 21st, 2007

Oversight Committee Reports Cheney Exempts His Office from Requirements for Protecting Classified Info

Press release: “The Oversight Committee has learned that over the objections of the National Archives, Vice President Cheney exempted his office from the presidential order that establishes government-wide procedures for safeguarding classified national security information. The Vice President asserts that his office is not an “entity within the executive branch.” As described in a letter …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

New GAO Reports and House Hearing on Misuse of Social Security Numbers

Social Security Numbers: Federal Actions Could Further Decrease Availability in Public Records, though Other Vulnerabilities Remain, GAO-07-752, June 15, 2007: “Various public records in the United States, including some generated by the federal government, contain Social Security numbers (SSN) and other personal identifying information that could be used to commit fraud and identity theft. Public …

Subjects: Congress, Cybercrime, E-Government, Government Documents, ID Theft, Privacy

Declassified CIA Documents Posted on Web by National Security Archive

Press release: “The Central Intelligence Agency violated its charter for 25 years until revelations of illegal wiretapping, domestic surveillance, assassination plots, and human experimentation led to official investigations and reforms in the 1970s, according to declassified documents posted today on the Web by the National Security Archive at George Washington University. CIA director Gen. Michael …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Legal Research, Privacy

Surveys Examine the Impact of the Growing Cell-Only Population

Follow up to May 14, 2007 posting, Nearly 16% of U.S. Homes Have No Landline Phone, see also these related studies: The Landline-less Are Different and Their Numbers Are Growing Fast, by Scott Keeter, Director, Survey Research, Pew Research Center, June 20, 2007 What’s Missing from National RDD Surveys? The Impact of the Growing Cell-Only …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Internet, Knowledge Management, Wireless Web

EU: eGovernment in the European countries

EU: eGovernment in the European countries, 19 June 2007: “As part of its mission to inform the European eGovernment community about key issues of common interest, the eGovernment Observatory maintains a series of Factsheets presenting the situation and progress of eGovernment in 32 European countries: EU-27, Croatia, Turkey, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, providing for each …

Subjects: E-Government