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Follow up to postings on Navy sonar exercises off Southern California coast, today “in a letter to Council of Environmental Quality Chairman Connaughton, Chairman Waxman expresses deep concern over the Administrations use of emergency powers to facilitate training exercises that could harm whales off the coast of southern California, and releases a list of previous …
Press release: “Capital spending by U.S. nonfarm businesses reached an all-time high of $1.31 trillion in 2006, topping the $1.16 trillion in 2000 and $1.14 trillion in 2005. These results come from the U.S. Census Bureaus Annual Capital Expenditures Survey: 2006, which measures business spending for new and used structures and equipment. The survey defines …
Press release: “Congresswoman Betty McCollum (MN-04), has sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office asking that it reopen its investigation of the privacy and national security risks posed by government agencies reselling used magnetic data tapes that may once have contained large amounts of sensitive personal and government information. Researchers working for Imation, an …
Follow-up to previous postings on the baseball investigation, “Today the Oversight and Government Reform Committee released an updated schedule of depositions and interviews related to allegations in Senator Mitchells Report to the Commissioner of Baseball of an Independent Investigation into the Illegal Use of Steroids and Other Performance Enhancing Substances by Players in Major League …
White House Fact Sheet: New Growth Package Meets Criteria to Keep Our Economy Healthy “Today, President Bush announced his Administration reached a bipartisan agreement with House leadership on an economic growth package, and he encouraged Congress to deliver a bill to his desk as soon as possible to bolster the economy this year. The President’s …
“A new Institute of Medicine report, Knowing What Works in Health Care: A Roadmap for the Nation, provides a blueprint for a national program to assess the effectiveness of clinical services and to provide credible, unbiased information about what really works in health care. The report recommends that Congress direct the U.S. Department of Health …
“As announced previously by Office of Information and Privacy, we are now posting up-to-date summaries of new court decisions. To facilitate their review, the cases are broken down by FOIA Exemption or procedural element and internal citations and quotations have been omitted. OIP provides these case summaries as a public service; due to their nature …
Press release: “The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today adopted a Report and Order (Order) which requires television broadcasters to provide more information on the local programming they are broadcasting and facilitate the publics access to that information. The Commission is committed to establishing and maintaining a system of local broadcasting that is responsive to the …
WSJ: “The Wall Street Journal’s Web site, WSJ.com, will keep a significant portion of its content behind its paid-subscription wall, News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said Thursday.”
Coalition for Patient Privacy: “Our mission is to ensure that Americans control all access to their health records.” “National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics report, Enhanced Protections for Uses of Health Data: A Stewardship Framework for ‘Secondary Uses’ of Electronically Collected and Transmitted Health Data. The report recommends that Americans have NO control over …
“The State of the Worlds Children 2008 assesses the state of child survival and primary health care for mothers, newborns and children today. These issues serve as sensitive barometers of a countrys development and wellbeing and as evidence of its priorities and values. Investing in the health of children and their mothers is a human …
DHS: Privacy Impact Assessment for the Use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology for Border Crossings, January 22, 2008. “U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) employs Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology that is to be used in cross border travel documents to facilitate the land border primary inspection process. A unique number is embedded in …
