Day archives: March 26th, 2012

FTC Issues Final Commission Report on Protecting Consumer Privacy

News release: “The Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s chief privacy policy and enforcement agency, issued a final report setting forth best practices for businesses to protect the privacy of American consumers and give them greater control over the collection and use of their personal data. In the report, Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of …

Subjects: Congress, Cybercrime, Legislation, Privacy

Agencies Propose Revisions to Leveraged Finance Guidance

News release: “The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (the agencies) are seeking comment on proposed revisions to the interagency leveraged finance guidance issued in 2001. Transactions that are covered by this guidance are characterized by a borrower with a …

Subjects: Government Documents

New GAO Reports – DOD Supply Chain, Federal Statistical System, Force Structure, KC-46 Tanker Aircraft, TSA

DOD Supply Chain – Suspect Counterfeit Electronic Parts Can Be Found on Internet Purchasing Platforms – GAO-12-375, Feb 21, 2012 Federal Statistical System – Agencies Can Make Greater Use of Existing Data, but Continued Progress Is Needed on Access and Quality Issues, GAO-12-54, Feb 24, 2012 Force Structure – Assessment of Army Report on Fiscal …

Subjects: Government Documents

DHS Privacy Office Delivers First Quarter Fiscal Year 2012 Report to Congress

Department of Homeland Security Privacy Office, First Quarter Fiscal Year 2012 Report to Congress “The PIA [Privacy Impact Assessments] process is one of the key mechanisms used to assure that the Department’s use of technologies sustains, and does not erode, privacy protections relating to the use, collection, and disclosure of PII. As of November 30, …

Subjects: Government Documents, Privacy

Study by NOAA and Partners Shows Some Gulf Dolphins Severely Ill

Follow-up to previous postings on the Gulf Oil Spill, this new study: “Bottlenose dolphins in Barataria Bay, Louisiana, are showing signs of severe ill health, according to NOAA marine mammal biologists and their local, state, federal and other research partners. Barataria Bay, located in the northern Gulf of Mexico, received heavy and prolonged exposure to …

Subjects: Government Documents

Revenues and Spending Under CBO's Extended Baseline Scenario and Two Alternatives Specified by Chairman Ryan

Revenues and Spending Under CBO’s Extended Baseline Scenario and Two Alternatives Specified by Chairman Ryan, March 23, 2012 “Allowing changes that are scheduled under current law to take effect— including the expiration of tax cuts that originally went into effect in 2001 and 2003 — is one of many possible approaches for preventing deficits from …

Subjects: Government Documents

CDT – Decentralizing the Analysis of Health Data

Decentralizing the Analysis of Health Data, March 22, 2012 “As the digitization of health records makes it easier and more cost effective to share and analyze health data, policymakers and businesses are increasingly looking to use health data for secondary purposes – uses beyond that for which the health data were originally collected. For example, …

Subjects: E-Records, Government Documents, Privacy