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Senate Working Group to Evaluate 9/11 Commission Proposals
From the Daschle press release: “Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle today appointed members to a bipartisan Senate working group that will examine how best to implement the Commission’s recommendations that deal with reform of the Senate’s oversight of intelligence and homeland security.”
Searchable Database on Social and Economic Data from House Cmte. on Ways & Means
The 2004 Green Book (WMCP 108-6) of the House Ways and Means Committee available to search and browse in the Ways and Means Committee Prints. “The House Ways and Means Committee Green Book provides program descriptions and historical data on a wide variety of social and economic topics, including Social Security, employment, earnings, welfare, child …
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Army OIG Report On Air Passenger Data Mining
U.S. Army Inspector General Agency Report of Investigation (ROI), 21 June 2004 (29 pages, PDF): “…an investigation to determine the facts and circumstances surrounding the alleged release of personal data related to a security enhancement study for the Army…” See also, Army: JetBlue Data Use Was Legal and related postings here.
Software Removes Metadata Content Trail From Sensitive Documents
From internetnews.com, this article details an update to software of interest to the legal community which facilitates the removal of sensitive information generated during the collaborative preparation of client related documents.
Maryland Case Challenging Lack of E-Voting Paper Trail To Be Heard this Week
From the Campaign for Verifiable Voting, August 21, 2004: “…the case of Linda Schade et. al. vs. Linda Lamone et al. will be heard by Judge Manck in Anne Arundel Circuit Court in downtown Annapolis on Wednesday, August 25th through Friday, August 28th. Progressing further than any other electronic voting suit in the nation, this …
Surveilling VoIP – Challenges Abound
The Call Is Cheap. The Wiretap Is Extra. Related reference from the FCC, August 4, 2004: FCC Adopts Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Declaratory Ruling Regarding Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act. See also the text of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (CALEA).
Google and Yahoo’s Impact on Web Searching
More Is Not Necessarily Better “Few people realize that 95 percent of all Web searches in the United States are handled by two companies, Google and Yahoo, either directly or through other sites that use their technology…The influence of search companies in determining what users worldwide can see and do online is breathtaking.”
E-Voting Machines Remain Under Scrutiny
E-Vote Machine Certification Criticized See also electionline.org, “produced by the Election Reform Information Project, is the nations only non-partisan, non-advocacy website providing up-to-the-minute news and analysis on election reform,” and previous beSpacific posts on e-voting.
Beta URLinfo from FaganFinder
“URLinfo is a tool for handling web pages: finding information about it, translating it, finding related pages, etc.”
9/11 Commission Releases Two Staff Reports, and Concludes Work Today
Press release, August 21, 2004: 9/11 Commission Releases Two Staff Monographs: “The Commission has released the following staff reports to the Commission, available in PDF format.” Monograph on Terrorist Financing (155 pages) Monograph on 9/11 and Terrorist Travel (241 pages) See also these relates articles from AP and Reuters respectively: Sept. 11 Commission Formally Disbands …
