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The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) has released “Law Enforcement Intelligence: A Guide for State, Local, and Tribal Law Enforcement Agencies CD-ROM.” This guide is an electronic version of the 2004 print publication. The guide is targeted to managers, supervisors, and officers tasked with developing or reinvigorating their …
State Department: “Forty-nine nations, organizations and individuals have been invited to attend the U.S.-sponsored international Middle East conference November 26-28 in Annapolis, Maryland, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack says…The United States will host Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, along with the members of the Quartet, which includes the United Nations, …
National Archives: “The Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum will release approximately 122,800 pages of historical materials from the Nixon presidency at the National Archives in College Park, MD. Highlights include national security documents on U.S. policy towards Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the Soviet Union, and on the Kurds. Also included are documents on the …
Blog announcement: “Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), in conjunction with a coalition of government watchdog groups, launched a new online government document database, governmentdocs.org on Thursday, November 8. The database houses Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) responses, and other government documents, from a number of organizations, that can be browsed, searched and …
This series is a project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and Research Center for Information Law at University of St. Gallen. Authors, John Palfrey and Urs Gasser. Breaking Down Digital Barriers White Paper Case Study: DRM-protected Music Interoperability and eInnovation Case Study: Digital Identity Interoperability and eInnovation Case …
Defense Science Board Report, September 2007 – Deployment of National Guard and Reserve in the Global War on Terrorism (53 pages, PDF): “…given current levels of operational demand, today’s Army active, National Guard and reserve force structure will not support the DOD [deployment] policy.”
20 November 2007, Statement to the House of Commons by Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, MP, on HMRC “With your permission Mr Speaker I should like to make a statement on the breach of procedures which led to missing personal data relating to child benefit from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs…The National Audit Office …
Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age, James Waldo, Herbert S. Lin, and Lynette I. Millett, Editors, Committee on Privacy in the Information Age, National Research Council. “Privacy is a growing concern in the United States and around the world. The spread of the Internet and the seemingly boundaryless options for collecting, saving, …
