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Physicians for a Healthy [email protected]‬ – These sites might be useful: 1. HealthMap – Real-time disease tracking system developed by Boston Children’s Hospital. (healthmap.org) 2. Global Incident Map – Displays disease outbreaks worldwide with alert notifications. (outbreaks.globalincidentmap.com) 3. Global Flu View – Tracks flu reports from citizen surveillance programs across multiple countries. (globalfluview.org) 4. WHO’s …

Subjects: Education, Health Care, Medicine

EFF Transition Memo to Trump Administration 2025

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Surveillance Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Section 702 Facial Recognition Technology Border Search and Immigration Surveillance Surveillance Tech at the Border and the Virtual Wall Reproductive Justice and Digital Surveillance 2. Encryption and Cybersecurity End-to-End Encryption Client-Side Scanning and Other Recent U.S. Attempts At Encryption Backdoors Government Cybersecurity 4. Consumer Privacy Consumer …

Subjects: AI, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Copyright, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Digital Rights, Health Care, Internet, Legal Research, Legislation, Medicine, Patent and Trademark, Privacy, Transportation

Army, Navy remove web pages highlighting women’s military service

Military Times: “A page devoted to women’s service in the U.S. Navy was removed in February by the Navy History and Heritage Command and replaced by a “page not found” message. (Screenshot/NHHC) In an effort to align with President Donald Trump’s recent executive order that terminated diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, initiatives across the …

Subjects: Censorship, E-Government, Education, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy

The New York Times – no paywall: “It was driven with a frenetic focus by Mr. Musk, who channeled his libertarian impulses and resentment of regulatory oversight of his vast business holdings into a singular position of influence. Without ceding control of his companies, the richest man in the world has embedded his engineers and …

Subjects: Courts, Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media, Transportation

2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive

Internet Archives Blog: “Every four years since 2004-before and after the U.S. presidential election-the Internet Archive works with libraries and research organizations to preserve U.S. government websites during administration changes. These “End of Term” (EOT) Web Archive projects have documented transitions and preserved the record of administrative changes over time. The ongoing 2024/2025 EOT crawl …

Subjects: Censorship, Legal Research

How to disable ACR on your TV (and why you shouldn’t wait to do it)

ZDNet – As TV operating systems become smarter, they present new privacy concerns. Here’s what automatic content recognition (ACR) is all about – and why you should consider turning it off. Did you know that whenever you turn on your smart TV, you invite an unseen guest to watch it with you? These days, most popular …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Internet, Privacy

A Primer on Reductions in Force

LawFare – Trump seeks to reduce the size of the federal workforce using a complicated and arcane process. “…In an executive order titled “Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ Workforce Optimization Initiative,” Trump outlined two additional mechanisms by which he will seek to reduce federal employment. The order is sweeping, and its definition of …

Subjects: Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

D.C. is coming together to help its federal workers

Axios: “As Washington’s federal workforce is slashed by President Trump and DOGE, many in the DMV community are responding with another message: We stand with government employees. Why it matters: Some 373,000 federal workers live in the greater D.C. area, and many have been made to feel expendable at best (or worse, “smeared as leeches“). …

Subjects: Economy, Health Care, Transportation

DOGE Was Just Rehearsing for Much-Larger-Scale Federal Layoffs

New York – The Intelligencer: “Federal employees and those who depend on the benefits and services they provide have been in shock from the moment the new Trump administration unleashed Elon Musk’s shadowy DOGE operatives to conduct guerrilla warfare on the “deep state.” Chaos and unpredictability have been the hallmarks of the DOGE reign of …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

FCC’s Knives Are Out for First Amendment

Fairness & Accurately in Reporting (FAIR): Brendan Carr, newly appointed chair of the Federal Communications Commission, is waging a war on the news media, perhaps the most dangerous front in de jure President Donald Trump and de facto President Elon Musk’s quest to destroy freedom of the press and the First Amendment. Trump’s FCC has …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

FEMA datasets

Jeremy Herzog rebuilt FEMA’s Future Risk Index after it was taken down last week.

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Environmental Law

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