Day archives: July 25th, 2011

New GAO Reports: Criminal Cartel Enforcement, DOD and Cyber Activities, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Missing Children

Criminal Cartel Enforcement – Stakeholder Views on Impact of 2004 Antitrust Reform Are Mixed, but Support Whistleblower Protection GAO-11-619, July 25, 2011 DOD Faces Challenges In Its Cyber Activities, GAO-11-75, July 25, 2011 Millennium Challenge Corporation, Compacts in Cape Verde and Honduras Achieved Reduced Targets, GAO-11-728, July 25, 2011 Missing Children – DOJ Could Enhance …

Subjects: Government Documents

Manhattan has the lowest percentage of seriously delinquent mortgages in New York City

Federal Reserve Bank of New York – Regional Mortgage Briefs: “While several zip codes have foreclosure rates more than two times the borough rate, even these rates are low relative to the rest of New York City. Also distinctive is Manhattan’s house price index, which has had relatively fewer years of annual decline. The borough’s …

Subjects: Government Documents

White House: Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime

Eric H. Holder, Jr. the Attorney General of the United States: The Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime A White House Fact Sheet on the Strategy The Executive Order Blocking Property of Transnational Criminal Organizations A Presidential Proclamation: Suspension of Entry of Aliens Subject to United Nations Travel Bans and International Emergency Economic Powers Act …

Subjects: Government Documents, Legal Research

Report – Google Street View cars grabbed locations of phones, PCs

CNET: “Google’s Street View cars collected the locations of millions of laptops, cell phones, and other Wi-Fi devices around the world, a practice that raises novel privacy concerns, CNET has confirmed. The cars were supposed to collect the locations of Wi-Fi access points. But Google also recorded the street addresses and unique identifiers of computers …

Subjects: Internet, Privacy, Search Engines, Wireless Web

The Vanishing U.S.-E.U. Employment Gap

The Vanishing U.S.-E.U. Employment Gap, Christian Grisse, Thomas Klitgaard, and Ayşegül Şahin. Federal Reserve Bank of New York. “The employment-to-population ratio—the share of adults that are employed—has historically been much higher in the United States than in Europe. However, the gap narrowed dramatically in the last decade and had almost disappeared by the end of …

Subjects: Government Documents

Patent Trolls

“Why would a company rent an office in a tiny town in East Texas, put a nameplate on the door, and leave it completely empty for a year? The answer involves a controversial billionaire physicist in Seattle, a 40 pound cookbook, and a war waging right now, all across the software and tech industries.” This …

Subjects: Legal Research, Patent and Trademark