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Computerworld reports, “The Social Security numbers, driver’s license information and bank account details belonging to potentially millions of current and former residents of Florida are available to anyone on the Internet because sensitive information has not been redacted from public records being posted on county Web sites.”
Cyber Security Industry Alliance Board Urges Congressional Leadership on Consumer Data Protection: Letter to Congressional Leadership
As reported by AP today, newspapers including the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Austin American-Statesman will carry topical blog content from over 600 sites, provided through a syndication agreement with BlogBurst.
Hurricane Katrina: Planning for and Management of Federal Disaster Recovery Contracts, Full-text GAO-06-622T, April 10, 2006. Highlights. “The devastation experienced throughout the Gulf Coast region in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita has called into question the government’s ability to effectively respond to such disasters. The government needs to understand what went right and …
Follow-up to April 9, 2006 posting, Reports Substantiate WH Plan to Discredit Iraq War Critic Via Plame CIA Leak, President Bush Discusses Global War on Terror at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, April 10, 2006: “…after we liberated Iraq, there was questions in people’s minds about the …
As noted in a series of previous postings on the sale of cell phone records and associated privacy issues, it was reported on April 7, 2006 that the House Engery and Commerce Committee’s demand for the business records of companies engaged in this commerce has not yielded reponses. Therefore, the committee issued subpoenas to 12 …
CSO Fundamentals: The ABCs of Phishing and Pharming
Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed – A multimedia report on television newsrooms’ use of material provided by PR firms on behalf of paying clients – Diane Farsetta and Daniel Price, Center for Media and Democracy, April 6, 2006.
Federal Secrecy After September 11 and the Future of the Information Society, Volume 2, Issue 1 (2006), Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society.
Press release: “Places & Spaces: Mapping Science uses maps, globes, and interactive illuminated diagrams to chart abstract concepts in and across a variety of scientific disciplines, tracking the emergence, evolution, and disappearance of topics to help identify the most promising areas of research. The exhibit is on view at The New York Public Library’s Science, …
The Public Editor – The Times’s New Blogs: More Information, Fewer Filters, by Byron Calame.
Report to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act, Special Report, March 2006 (32 oages, PDF).
