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From the Federal Register, June 20, 2004, National Archives and Records Administration, Public availability and use: Federal records and donated historical materials containing restricted information; access restrictions: “NARA is revising its regulations on access to Federal records and donated historical materials containing restricted information. This rule entirely rewrites and reorganizes this portion of NARA’s regulations …
Welcome to a sneak peek of MSN’s new search technology A few details about this stage of the preview Microsoft enhances MSN search engine Microsoft Simplifies Search Web Site
My PC power supply was zapped. Lesson learned. Turn everything off and just wait until it is all over.
From Secrecy News: “The Pentagon has reissued its Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, featuring over 700 pages of definitions updated through March 2004.” (736 pages, PDF)
Press release about the survey from Avaya Inc.: “An increasing number of vacationing workers include laptop computers, cell phones and PDAs with their beach towels, sunscreen and paperbacks in order to stay in touch with office business…85 percent of respondents remain accessible to co-workers during nights, weekends and vacations; 76 percent regularly retrieve messages during …
From Declan McCullagh: “A federal appeals court dismissed a case against an e-mail provider who allegedly violated federal wiretapping laws by reading messages meant for customers, a decision (53 pages, PDF) critics say could make it easier for police to seek permission to tap Net phone calls.” From EFF, Online Privacy “Eviscerated” by First Circuit …
From ZDNet: “A federal court in California has turned down a request to stop SpamCop from keeping tabs on mass e-mailer OptInRealBig, saying the blocklist operator is protected under the Communications Decency Act.” Order from U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, OptInRealBig.com, LLC v. IronPort Systems, Inc. (20 pages, PDF).
From the press release: “To increase security and improve public confidence in the voting process, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) and the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law (BC) today released a new report providing specific recommendations for elections officials planning to use electronic voting machines in the 2004 elections.” …
The U.S. General Accounting Office website has undergone a much needed redesign, although the result is, to say the least, restrained (and red, white and blue all over). From the homepage, users may search all reports or legal products, as well as conduct searches by keyword or report number. A link to Current Reports and …
“The Associated Press will launch its first Web log at the political conventions in Boston and New York, utilizing Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Walter R. Mears, AP officials announced Monday.” [Link]
From the Cmte. on Government Reform, Minority Office HHS Restricts Communications between U.S. Scientists and WHO Officials: “A new HHS policy requires the World Health Organization to submit all requests for expert scientific advice to political officials at HHS who pick which federal scientists will be permitted to respond. Letter to HHS on International AIDS …
Foreign Lobbyist Database Could Vanish – “Justice Department officials say a huge database that serves as the public’s lone window on lobbying activities by foreign governments has been allowed to decay to a point they cannot even make a copy of its contents.” Foreign Agents Registration Unit (FARA), Counterespionage Section From AP, DOJ: Our Computer …
