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The New York Times reported that the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab will launch a censorship circumvention solution called psiphon. According to the Citizen Lab, “psiphon is…a human rights software project…that allows citizens in uncensored countries to provide unfettered access to the Net through their home computers to friends and family members who live behind …
Follow-up to previous postings on the SWIFT online financial cooperative network, this November 23, 2006 corporate press release: “SWIFT strongly objects to WP 29’s opinion [Opinion 10/2006 on the processing of personal data by the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), 11/26/2006 WP 128] about the communication of personal data to the US Treasury …
Boston.com: Dick Cheney’s mission to expand — or ‘restore’ –the powers of the presidency – “A close look at key moments in Cheney’s career…suggests that the newly empowered Democrats in Congress should not expect the White House to cooperate when they demand classified information or attempt to exert oversight in areas such as domestic surveillance …
New York Times: “The insurgency in Iraq is now self-sustaining financially, raising tens of millions of dollars a year from oil smuggling, kidnapping, counterfeiting, connivance by corrupt Islamic charities and other crimes that the Iraqi government and its American patrons have been largely unable to prevent, a classified United States government report [obtained by the …
Boston.com: Coffee’s on, dusty books are out at UMass library – Extras aimed at drawing students, November 25, 2006: “Libraries are clearing out books for cafés, tutoring, and career advising, according to the Association of Research Libraries. UMass and four other area colleges are moving a total of 500,000 seldom-read books into an old mountainside …
Press release: “The Commission has authorized the staff to release publicly the FTC’s Performance and Accountability Report (PAR) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2006. As required by the Reports Consolidation Act of 2000, the Performance Report is included in the FTC’s PAR for FY 2006. This is the FTC’s fourth consolidated report prepared pursuant to the …
From the Strategic Security Blog, A project of the Federation of American Scientists, November 9, 2006 posting: “A new review published in the November/December issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists shows that the United States stores its nearly 10,000 nuclear warheads at 18 locations in 12 states and six European countries.”
HIV in Prisons, 2004 and Medical Problems of Jail Inmates, written by Bureau of Justice statistician Laura M. Maruschak. HIV in Prisons, 2004 – “Reports the number of female and male prisoners who were HIV positive or AIDS active, the number of AIDS-related deaths in State and Federal prisons, a profile of those inmates who …
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 210, Posted – November 24, 2006 “The Iran-Contra Affair 20 Years On – Documents Spotlight Role of Reagan, Top Aides Pentagon Nominee Robert Gates Among Many Prominent Figures Involved in the Scandal: ‘…Iran-Contra also echoes in the re-emergence of several prominent public figures who played a part in, …
Press release, November 23 2006: Ofcom [the regulator for the UK communications industries] today announced that the use of certain low power FM transmitters, which wirelessly connect MP3 players and other personal audio devices to radios and in-car entertainment systems, will be legal for use in the UK from 8 December 2006…in response to consumer …
“Few corporations are prepared for the new federal rules slated to take effect Dec. 1 for electronic discovery of documents in civil cases, according to a survey conducted by Computerworld. About 42% of the 170 IT managers and staffers surveyed said they did not know the status of their company’s preparation for the new rules, …
E-government websites offer useful holiday shopping advice to consumers via the following: FTC Consumer Alert – Holiday Shopping? How To Be On Guard When Youre Online and Consumer Action Buying tips: “Before you head out to the mall or shop online for that perfect present, take a few moments to read these tips to help …
