High Profile Group of Scientists Support Free Access to Gov’t Funded Scientific Research
Scientists want research papers freely available The PDF text of the Open Letter to the U.S. Congress Signed by by 25 Nobel Prize Winners
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IRS IT Modernization Program Subject of Treasury OIG Audit
The Audit Trail System for Detecting Improper Activities on Modernized Systems Is Not Functioning (link to HTML version). From Federal Computer Week: “A software problem prevents users from querying the system that tracks when IRS financial data is accessed.”
Check That Quote!
From Blogoscoped, this Quote Finder “checks possible sources or quotations for every sentence of a text using Google.”
Will Your “Personal Health Record” Be Online Within 10 Years?
Medical Records May Go Online – “Health industry, tech firms, government agencies might collaborate to build a secure database of patient records.” [link via D. Cavallini] Related references and resources are as follows: Office of the National Health Information Technology Coordinator (ONCHIT), created by Executive Order 13335, signed April 27, 2004. Your Medical History on …
Government Secrecy and National Security
From the Washington Post (reg. req’d), Secret Court Poses Challenges – Non-Government Litigants Lack Access, Ways to Influence Cases and Too Much Secrecy, as well as this report, Secrecy and National Security by Bruce Berkowitz, Hoover Digest, Summer 2004. [links via Secrecy News] Related references: Statement of Ms. Carol A. Haave (Deputy Undersecretary of Defense) …
Judge Posner’s Commentary on the 9/11 Commission Report
From the Sunday, August 29 New York Times Book Review section, The 9/11 Report: A Dissent, by Richard A. Posner. Related references: The 9/11 Commission Report and 9/11 Commission Releases Two Staff Reports. A Joint Committee on Intelligence: Proposals and Options from the 9/11 Commission and Others, updated August 25, 2004. (22 pages, PDF)
Homeland Security RFP on Data Mining
Data Mining and Analysis Tools Used to Support the Information needs of the Homeland Security and First Responder Community [via EFF Deep Links]
EU May Create Corporate E-Filing System
From the Compliance Reporter: “The European Commission will consider creating a pan-European electronic filing system similar to EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval filing system used in the U.S., according to an industry official familiar with the Commission’s plans.”
Plan for Woodrow Wilson Library to Open in 2006
Plans Unveiled for Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
Securing E-Voting – A Checklist from CA Voter Foundation
Ten Things Elections Officials Can Do To Secure The Vote This November
CRS Reports on Secrecy and Intelligence Policies
As referenced in Secrecy News: Secrecy Versus Openness: New Proposed Arrangements for Balancing Competing Needs, updated August 26, 2004. The Protection of Classified Information: The Legal Framework, updated August 5, 2004. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: Term Limits and Assignment Limitations, August 12, 2004. Intelligence Community Reorganization: Potential Effects on DOD Intelligence Agencies, August 6, …
New Executive Orders Issued Today on Intelligence Community
Executive Order Strengthened Management of the Intelligence Community Executive Order National Counterterrorism Center Executive Order Strengthening the Sharing of Terrorism Information to Protect Americans Executive Order Strengthening the Sharing of Terrorism Information to Protect Americans Executive Order Establishing the President’s Board on Safeguarding Americans’ Civil Liberties Related news – Sources: Bush beefs up CIA chief’s …
