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New White House Docs. on Immigration Reform
Fact sheet – Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Improving Worksite Enforcement, June 1, 2006 President Discusses Comprehensive Immigration Reform, United States Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D.C., June 1, 2006 Related links and government documents: National Immigration Law Center: Senate Approves Sweeping but Flawed Immigration Reform Bill: The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006, May 30, 2006 National …
Online Fraud Report 2006
Press release: “A new cyber security study released today highlights the difference between perception and reality of consumers’ awareness of online scams and their actual online behavior. While 87 percent of consumers polled said they were confident they could recognize fraudulent e-mails, 61 percent failed to identify a legitimate e-mail. Most respondents categorized all e-mails …
Senate Finance Chair Questions Nonprofit Investment Group’s Practices, Seeks IRS, SEC Comment
Press release: Grassley Questions Nonprofit Investment Groups Practices, Seeks IRS, SEC Comment [6 pages, PDF, includes text of letter from Grassley to National Association of Investors Corp. President as well as letter to etter to SEC Chairman Christopher Cox]
Security Expert Calls for End to Anti-Terror Data Mining Program
According to security technology expert Bruce Schneier, the NSA data mining surveillance program “won’t uncover any terrorist plots until they are very accurate, and that even very accurate systems will be so flooded with false alarms that they will be useless.”
Connecticut Librarians Challenging Constitutionality of Patriot Act Gag Speak Out
Following up on previous postings about Connecticut librarians gagged by the FBI’s use of the National Security Letter provision of the Patriot Act, news from an ACLU press conference on the identity of the librarians and their respective statements as follows: Barbara Bailey Peter Chase George Christian Janet Nocek
Annual Report on International Religious Freedom 2005
Annual Report on International Religious Freedom 2005, April 2006 (871 pages, PDF): “Submitted to Congress annually by the Department of State, this report supplements the most recent Human Rights Reports and includes individual country chapters on the status of religious freedom worldwide.”
Free Searchable Directory of Published Proceedings
Directory of Published Proceedings: search by subject (Science/Technology, Medical/Life Sciences, Pollution Control/Ecology, Social Sciences/Humanities), sponsor and publisher, country, State/Province and year the event took place. [D.C.]
Continued Large Scale Data Breaches Highlight Lack of Privacy
A Briefing On Public Policy Issues Affecting Civil Liberties Online from The Center For Democracy and Technology – Veterans Data Breach Highlights Inadequate Privacy Protections. Related postings and resources for veterans impacted by this data breach.
Historical Documents on Bacteriological Warfare in the US Posted on Web
Michael Ravnitzky’s FOIA requests for FBI files on Bacteriological Warfare in the United States, from 1950-1971 [709 redacted pages], are now available in PDF, with further releases forthcoming, according to Russ Kick at the Memory Hole.
Census Releases 2003-2004 State and Local Government Finances
“The Census Bureau conducts a census of governments at five year intervals, and an annual survey for the intervening years. The state and local government finances are available in files and viewable tables. The statistics cover government financial activity in four broad categories of revenue, expenditure, debt, and assets.” [Available data]
CIA Declassifies Nazi War Criminals Documents
Press Briefing: CIA Declassifies Operational Materials As a Result of New Disclosure Policy under Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act The Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group “Since 1999, the IWG has declassified and opened to the public an estimated 8 million pages of documents, including 1.2 million pages of OSS …
