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Medicaid Program Integrity: State and Federal Efforts to Prevent and Detect Improper Payments GAO-04-707, July 16, 2004, Highlights. “States also reported using information technology to integrate databases containing provider, beneficiary, and claims information and conduct more efficient utilization reviews.”
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From the Washington Post (re’g req’d), U.S. Uses Secret Evidence In Secrecy Fight With ACLU, and the related ACLU press release. See also Record Number of FOIA Requests Received by Federal Gov’t in 2003.
Fact Sheet: Privacy and Your Health Information Fact Sheet: Your Health Information Privacy Rights For reference, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
American Political Science Association’s Media Resource webpage for the 2004 U.S. elections. “APSA has gathered resources on key themes in the presidential and congressional elections, including introductions by leading political scientists in the United States, contact information for dozens of prominent scholars around the country, and citations for recent and cutting-edge political science research.” Election …
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This June 14 posting, Online Newspapers Increasingly Require User Registration, mentioned a website registration work-around called BugMeNot. Posts on Metafilter indicate that the site no longer works. (See this posting from the site’s owner for an explanation.) The site is now back online, at the same url.
From EFF: “Today the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals made a crucial decision (PDF, 26 pages) in support of technology innovators by declaring that distributors of the peer-to-peer software Grokster and Morpheus cannot be held liable for the infringing activities of their users.”
ALA Washington Office Pilots Copyright Hotline: “The American Library Association Washington Office’s Office for Information and Technology Policy (ALAWASH) is piloting an electronic bulletin board where librarians can post questions and answers to their copyright questions under the watchful eye of copyright experts.”
From Crypto-Gram: Websites, Passwords, and Consumers. “Criminals follow the money. Today, more and more money is on the Internet. Millions of people manage their bank accounts, PayPal accounts, stock portfolios, or other payment accounts online. It’s a tempting target: if a criminal can gain access to one of these accounts, he can steal money. And …
This USA Today article provides examples of a range of services for citizens that have migrated to state sponsored web portals, from traffic alerts to payment mechanisms for various licensing fees. Related news, Michigan Captures Top Spot in Digital State Survey.
In the Classroom, Web Blogs Are the New Bulletin Boards.
