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AP reported that a hacker obtained personal data on over 25,000 Agriculture Department employees. USDA Notifies Headquarters Employees Of Possible Personal Information Breach – Provides Free Credit Monitoring Services Related postings on ID Theft and cybercrime.
World Resources Institute: 2006. Hot Climate, Cool Commerce: A Service Sector Guide to Greenhouse Gas Management. “A guide on managing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that details the various steps necessary to manage track, and reduce GHG emissions.”
Iraq: Elections, Government, and Constitution, Updated June 15, 2006 Iraq: Post-Saddam Governance and Security, Updated June 14, 2006
Following up on Domestic Call Records Mined for Expansive Pentagon Database Program, today’s passage by the House Judiciary Committee, voice vote, on H.Res. 819, “Requesting the President and directing the Attorney General to submit to the House of Representatives all documents in the possession of the President and the Attorney General relating to requests made …
Fact Sheet: 2006 U.S. – EU Summit, June 21, 2006
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From the chron.com, their comprehensive Enron coverage and Enron Corp. Background, documents, profiles, photos and multimedia coverage of the Enron scandal, investigations and criminal prosecutions.
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House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security, Democratic Staff report, Detour Ahead: Critical Vulnerabilities in Americas Rail and Mass Transit Security Programs, June 2006 (45 page, PDF).
The Consumer Privacy Legislative Forum (whose members include Google, Microsoft, Oracle, EBay Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc. and Symantec Corp.) issued a statement supporting “a serious process to consider comprehensive harmonized federal privacy legislation to create a simplified, uniform but flexible legal framework.” Google Official Blog: “On an Internet beset with spyware, …
Following up on previous postings on the VA data breach, today the GAO issued yet another related report – Information Security: Leadership Needed to Address Weaknesses and Privacy Issues at Veterans Affairs, Full text GAO-06-897T, and Highlights, June 20, 2006. “For many years, significant concerns have been raised about VA’s information security–particularly its lack of …
Survey Results on Access to Information Problems Encountered by Federal, State, and Local Accountability Organizations, Evaluation and Inspections Report, I-2006-006, June 2006. (107 pages, PDF) “Accountability organizations such as federal and state offices of inspector general and state and local audit organizations are responsible for helping ensure that government operations use public resources wisely and …
