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Chris Hoofnagle, Measuring Identity Theft at Top Banks (Version 1.0) February 26, 2008. Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. Law and Technology Scholarship (Selected by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology). Paper 44. “There is no reliable way for consumers, regulators, and businesses to assess the relative incidence of identity fraud at major financial …
Data Breach Notification Laws, State By State, by Scott Berinato, “More than five years after California’s seminal data breach disclosure law, SB 1386, was enacted, not all states have followed suit. Eleven states still have not passed laws mandating that companies notify consumers when that company has lost the consumer’s personal data. One state, Oklahoma, …
Economic Policy Institute: Do subprime loans create subprime cities? Surging inequality and the rise in predatory lending, February 28, 2008. “In the paper, published by EPI as part of its Agenda for Shared Prosperity, author Gregory D. Squires, a George Washington University sociologist, contends that increasing economic inequality and diminishing access to conventional financial services …
Kaiser Family Foundation release, 2/28/08: “Statehealthfacts.org recently added new and updated data on Medicare – CMS data on total Medicare enrollment as of January is available for all states and the nation. In addition, CMS data on the prescription drug coverage status of Medicare beneficiaries has been updated up to January. The updated drug coverage …
As reported by Courthousenews.com: “The judge had urged both the prosecution and defense to unseal various documents in an earlier hearing and both sides have since agree to the unsealing of Bonds’ testimony (152 pages, PDF).”
“The Safer Internet plus programme aims to promote safer use of the Internet and new online technologies, particularly for children, and to fight against illegal content and content unwanted by the end-user, as part of a coherent approach by the European Union.” Make the internet a safer place, February 2008: While the international context is …
Congressional Budget Office Presentation to The Tax Policy Center and, the American Tax Policy Institute, Taxes and Health Insurance, February 29, 2008
US Air Force shoots down blogs, airmen frustrated, by Ryan Paul: “The United States Air Force has stirred up controversy with a new Internet filtering policy that aims to prevent Air Force personnel from reading blogs while on the job. The ban has been implemented by the Air Force Network Operations Center (AFNOC), which houses …
“Women have made great strides in the fight for equality, but gender bias continues to create huge barriers for manyespecially immigrants, women of color, women with low incomes, and victims of domestic violence. Women’s History Month draws attention to the women who have fought for the rights we have today, and at the same time …
“InsideCounsels 2008 Comp Report measures law department compensation using Hildebrandts Law Department Survey and Altman Weils Law Department Compensation Benchmarking Survey. Hildebrandt surveyed 202 companies on 2006 year-end data. The median respondent company had more than $10 billion in worldwide revenues, 20,000-plus employees and a U.S. law department with nearly 30 lawyers. Altman Weil used …
The Connection Has Been Reset, by James Fallows. “In reality, what the Olympic-era visitors will be discovering is not the absence of Chinas electronic control but its new refinementand a special Potemkin-style unfettered access that will be set up just for them, and just for the length of their stay. According to engineers I have …
News release: “Preliminary data from a survey of foreign portfolio holdings of U.S. securities at end-June 2007 are released today on the U.S. Treasury web site. A revised table on Major Foreign Holders of Treasury Securities, where estimates through end-December 2007 are based in part on survey data, is also released at (http://www.treas.gov/tic/ticsec2.html, on line …
