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Press release: “Consumer confidence in conducting business and protecting personal data online is threatened every day by phishing scams. In an initiative led by the National Consumers League (NCL), law enforcement, financial services and technical industries have joined forces to combat this threat. The group today issued a “call to action” with the release of …
Government Reform Committee Oversight Hearing: No Computer System Left Behind: A Review of the 2005 Federal Computer Security Scorecards, March 16, 2006. Please note, the links to the House Committee originally cited in this posting are no longer available. For alternative access to the some of the same information, please see the following: Washington Post: …
FOIA Facts – Sunshine Week and Other Things, by Scott A. Hodes CongressLine by GalleryWatch.com – The Earmark – Part 2, by Paul Jenks E-Discovery Update – by Fios Inc. – Working With Obsolete Data, by Conrad J. Jacoby
Adobe whitepaper, Redaction of Confidential Information in a Document: “How to safely remove sensitive information from Microsoft Word documents and convert to PDF”
Press release: “On Thursday, Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA)…[introduced] legislation to address the NSA’s warrantless surveillance of Americans on American soil…The bill, the NSA OVERSIGHT ACT, would: Reiterate Current FISA and Wiretap Laws – states that FISA and the federal criminal wiretap statutes shall continue to be the exclusive means by which domestic electronic surveillance may …
From the First Amendment Center, Kevin Goldberg summarizes federal legislation in 2005 that involved FOIA issues, and comments on the status of the proposals. Postings since 2002 on FOIA
Press release: Business Roundtable joined with other U.S. business organizations today to urge Congress to apply a specific set of principles when considering any legislation that would impact current laws governing review of foreign investment in the United States. The eight business groups delivered Principles to Guide National Security Reviews of Foreign Investment to all …
As reported today by Tony Mauro in the Legal Times, Justice Ginsburg Acknowledges Death Threat Against Her. Justice Ginsburg spoke about the threats against her and Justice O’Connor in a February 7, 2006 speech delivered to the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Retired Justice O’Connor has also recently spoken out about critics of the court …
Press release: California “Attorney General Bill Lockyer, in the first enforcement action resulting from his ongoing investigation into the sale of cell phone records, today filed a $10 million-plus lawsuit against Data Trace USA, Inc. (Data Trace) that alleges the firm unlawfully obtained and sold wireless customers’ confidential monthly call records.” Related documents, legislation and …
“Welcome to CenSEARCHip! This is a tool developed by Mark Meiss and Filippo Menczer at the Indiana University School of Informatics in March of 2006 to allow you to explore the differences in the results returned by different countries’ versions of the major search engines. We currently work with the Web search and image search …
“ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world. Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a …
Op-Ed in Roll Call by CDT Officials Supports Protecting Bloggers without Opening Soft Money Loopholes in the Campaign Finance Laws: “H.R. 4900 protects bloggers and small speakers far better than does H.R 1606, and by design, it does not create other loopholes in the campaign finance laws. Those who truly want to protect bloggers and …
