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“Unnecessary Powers: The Patriot Act already gives government too much power to spy on ordinary Americans, but things could get far worse. Congress is considering adding a broad new investigative power, known as the administrative subpoena, that would allow the Federal Bureau of Investigation to gain access to anyone’s financial, medical, employment and even library …
The Memory Hole has made available an unredacted copy of a report previously recalled from federal depository libraries: 75 Years of IRS Criminal Investigation History, 102 pages, PDF. [thanks Suzanne]
From WSJ free content today, Cooper Email Identifies Rove As a Source Related references: from Editor and Publisher as follows: Press Batters McClellan on Rove/Plame Link and More Miller-Cooper Fallout: ‘L.A. Times’ Tells Reporters Not to Enter Unnamed Names in Computers and ‘Newsweek’ Says It Has First Word on What Karl Rove Told Matt Cooper …
Information Technology: Federal Agencies Face Challenges in Implementing Initiatives to Improve Public Health Infrastructure GAO-05-308, June 10, 2005. Highlights. “…CDC and DHS face challenges in addressing specific weaknesses in IT planning and management that may hinder progress in developing and deploying public health IT initiatives. Until all these challenges are addressed, progress toward building a …
Selected PowerPoint presentations of sessions from the Business & Finance Division, Information Technology Division, Military Librarians Division, and Science-Technology Division, from the SLA 2005 Conference, Toronto, Ontario CANADA, June 5-8, 2005 are available free at via this Link.
Communicating with Congress: How Capitol Hill is Coping with the Surge in Citizen Advocacy; “The Internet and e-mail have made it easier and cheaper than ever before for citizens to communicate with their Members of Congress. In 2004, Congress received 200 million communications, four times more than in 1995 — the direct result of Internet-based …
In a follow-up to my June 28, 2004 posting, Gov’t Cmte. Established to Develop Voluntary Voting System Guidelines, see the following: “Voluntary Voting System Guidelines were developed under the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) Section 202 mandate that the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) update the 2002 Voting System Standards to address increasingly …
Largest High Tech Firms Ranked on How They Treat Online Customers in Second Quarter 2005 Online Customer Repect Study Related reference: Survey: Corporate Web sites low on customer respect
“Google SMS (Short Message Service) enables you to send queries as text messages over your mobile phone or device and easily get precise answers to your questions. No links. No web pages. Just text and the information you’re looking for…local business listings…driving directions…movie showtimes and theater locations of movies currently playing near you…weather conditions …
Don’t Count Them Out – The digital age hasn’t supplanted print. It’s complemented it, by Heather Smith, The American Lawyer, 07-01-2005
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Final rule, issued June 21, 2005. [Link] SUMMARY: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) is issuing this final rule amending its regulations for gaining access to critical energy infrastructure information (CEII). These changes are being made based on comments filed in response to the March 3, 2005, notice seeking public comment …
FCC press release: High-Speed Connections to the Internet Increased 34% During 2004 for a Total of 38 Million Lines in Service. The report (25 pages, PDF).
