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Principles of Federal Appropriations Law: Third Edition, Index and Table of Authorities, GAO-06-1059SP (231 pages, PDF), November 7, 2006 “This is the index and table of authorities of Principles of Federal Appropriations Law, Third Edition. The Third Edition’s web based Index/Table of Authorities (Index/TOA) was replaced by an Index/TOA that incorporated information from Volume I …
Press release: “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will begin testing air cargo screening technologies this fall at the Seattle-Tacoma (Sea-Tac) International Airport as part of its previously announced $30 million Air Cargo Explosives Detection Pilot Program (ACEDPP). The purpose of the Sea-Tac testing is to better understand the technological and operational issues associated …
DHS Office of Inspector General Management Advisory Report on the Condition, Losses, and Possible Uses of FEMA Modular Housing, OIG-07-03 (PDF, 6 pages), October 7, 2006.
Privacy International and EPIC Launch Privacy and Human Rights Global Study: “Each year since 1997, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and Privacy International have undertaken what has now become the most comprehensive survey of global privacy ever published. The Privacy & Human Rights Report surveys developments in 70 countries, assessing the state of technology, surveillance …
Chicago Tribune: Lawyers face right to blog – “Online journals that contain legal discussions and background information are challenging traditional practices on attorney advertising.”
Kahle v. Gonzales will be argued by Larry Lessig on November 13, 2006. “In this case, two archives ask the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to hold that statutes that extended copyright terms unconditionally the Copyright Renewal Act and the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) are unconstitutional under the Free …
Will Knight at New Scientist reports the research by Professor Markus Jakobsson and grad student Jacob Ratkiewicz, Indiana University, indicates “…one in 10 internet users may be lured into handing over sensitive personal information such as a credit card number, by fraudulent “phishing” emails…” and “that some survey participants may not have realised that they …
Energy Information Administration, November 7, 2006 – Short-Term Energy Outlook November 2006: “In response to rising oil inventories and declining world oil prices, OPEC announced that it would cut its oil production by 1.2 million bbl/d effective November 1, 2006. This production cut differs from previous ones in that the stated intent is to reduce …
EFF: “The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals announced today that it will hear the U.S. government’s and AT&T’s appeal of a district court’s decision allowing the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF’s) case against AT&T to go forward. The lawsuit alleges that AT&T collaborated in the National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) illegal spying program. The 9th Circuit …
Michael Ravnitzky was interviewed by Shirley Rooker, on WTOP’s consumer affairs program, where he discussed the MIB (formerly known as the Medical Information Bureau), how to get a copy of the medical history dossier they may maintain about you, and why you might want to ask for a copy. The mp3 audio file of the …
Follow-up to postings on the closure of EPA libraries around the country, see this related press release of November 3, 2006: “Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA)…led a group of Senators in a letter to senior members of the Senate Appropriations Committee requesting that the Committee direct the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to restore and maintain public …
Washington Post (re. req’d): “Gannett Co., the nation’s largest newspaper chain, is radically changing the way its papers gather and present news by incorporating elements of reader-created “citizen journalism,” mining online community discussions for stories and creating Internet databases of calendar listings and other non-news utilities.”
