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The Terrorism Index

Center for American Progress: The Terrorism Index: A Survey of the U.S. National Security Establishment on the War on Terror Executive Summary and Methodology with Complete Terrorism Survey Results View the complete survey results

Subjects: Internet

Disclosure of Terrorist Finance Tracking Program

Follow-up to June 22, 2006 posting, Government Mines Global Financial Data in War on Terror, the following related government documents and news today includes: Press release: Statement of Treasury Secretary John W. Snow on Disclosure of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program: “Given our intimate knowledge of the global financial system and financial flows, along with …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Privacy

NARA Seminar on Mandatory Declassification of Gov. Docs.

Press release: “A free workshop [June 30, 2006 – Jefferson Room National Archives Building 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC, 20408]sponsored by the National Archives Information Security Oversight Office that is aimed at informing the researcher public and the media of their rights in obtaining the maximum information by requesting a declassification review of classified …

Subjects: E-Government, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Libraries

EFF Argues Merits of Lawsuit on NSA Telephone Surveillance

“The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) told a federal judge today that the government should not be allowed to use the “state secrets privilege” to preempt the class-action lawsuit against AT&T. EFF’s suit accuses AT&T of collaborating with the National Security Agency (NSA) in illegally spying on millions of Americans — handing over customers’ telephone and …

Subjects: Privacy

Appeals Court Rules Against SEC on Hedge Fund Oversight

U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 04-1434a Goldstein, Phillip vs. SEC SEC, 17 CFR Parts 275 and 279,[Release No. IA-2333; File No. S7-30-04] RIN 3235-AJ25, Registration Under the Advisers Act of Certain Hedge Fund Advisers, Final Rule. “In a controversial move in late 2004, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) decided to require …

Subjects: Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

FTC and Navy Notifiy Individuals of ID Theft

FTC press release: “The Commission today announced it is notifying approximately 110 individuals that two FTC laptop computers, one of which contained some of their personally identifiable information, were stolen from a locked vehicle. The FTC has no reason to believe the information on the laptops, as opposed to the laptops themselves, was the target …

Subjects: ID Theft