EFF: “On Sunday, the United Kingdoms Prime Minister David Cameron and the Interior Ministry were forced to defend a sweeping wiretapping proposal, which would aim to monitor every single email, text message, and phone call flowing through the whole country. The proposal would likely force all UK Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to install black boxes… Continue Reading
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How Does the Benefit Value of Medicare Compare to the Benefit Value of Typical Large Employer Plans?
How Does the Benefit Value of Medicare Compare to the Benefit Value of Typical Large Employer Plans?: A 2012 Update. The study is authored by researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation and Aon Hewitt. “This study compares the value of Medicare’s fee-for-service benefits last year with the value of benefits in two large employer health… Continue Reading
Recent GAO Reports – Renewable Energy Project Financing, Medicare Secondary Payer
Renewable Energy Project Financing – Improved Guidance and Information Sharing Needed for DOD Project-Level Officials, GAO-12-401, Apr 4, 2012 Medicare Secondary Payer – Additional Steps Are Needed to Improve Program Effectiveness for Non-Group Health Plans, GAO-12-333, Mar 9, 2012 Continue Reading
Loan loss provisioning practices of Asian banks
Loan loss provisioning practices of Asian banks, by Frank Packer and Haibin Zhu, Working Papers No 375, April 2012 “In the wake of the Asian financial crisis, many regimes in Asia adopted stricter provisioning requirements, as well as discretionary measures, with the objective of increasing provisioning in good times in response to rising levels of… Continue Reading
Security of power grids: a European perspective
Security of power grids: a European perspective, Corrado Leita, Marc Dacier, Symantec Research Labs. April 2012 “Industrial control systems (ICS) are rapidly becoming a new major target of cyber-criminals. This was pointed out in multiple occasions by security experts and was confirmed by a recent survey carried out by Symantec. In this survey, 53% of… Continue Reading
Progress report on Basel III implementation and procedures for conducting country reviews published by Basel Committee
Progress report on Basel III implementation (update published in April 2012) “This updated Progress report on Basel III implementation provides a high-level view of Basel Committee members’ progress in adopting Basel II, Basel 2.5 and Basel III, as of end March 2012. It focuses on the status of domestic rule-making processes to ensure that the… Continue Reading
OECD: Identification and Quantification of the Proceeds of Bribery
Identification and Quantification of the Proceeds of Bribery, A joint OECD-StAR analysis, Revised edition, February 2012 “This study focuses on the identification and quantification of the proceeds of active bribery. It was undertaken as a joint effort between the OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions (Working Group) and the World Bank-UNODC Stolen… Continue Reading
One year Anniversary of CPSC Consumer Safety Information Databases First Postings
“Consumer Federation of America (CFA), Kids In Danger (KID) and Consumers Union (CU) mark the one year anniversary of the posting of consumer reports on the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commissions (CPSC) consumer database, SaferProducts.gov, that allows people to share and access safety information about the products they own and consider buying. To mark the… Continue Reading
Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance
CRS: Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance, Kenneth Katzman, Specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs, March 30, 2012 “There is concern among many observers that U.S. efforts to help build Afghan governance, democracy, civil society, and rule of law could founder as the United States and its partners seek to wind down, wholly or in large… Continue Reading
Pew: When Labels Dont Fit: Hispanics and Their Views of Identity
When Labels Dont Fit: Hispanics and Their Views of Identity – by Paul Taylor, Mark Hugo Lopez, Jessica Hamar Martínez and Gabriel Velasco, April 4, 2012 “Nearly four decades after the United States government mandated the use of the terms Hispanic or Latino to categorize Americans who trace their roots to Spanish-speaking countries, a new… Continue Reading
EPIC Urges Court to Affirm Privacy Protections for Home Wi-Fi Networks
“EPIC has filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit urging the court to affirm legal protections for users of home Wi-Fi networks. In Joffe v. Google, the plaintiffs sued Google for the interception and capture of private communications transferred over residential Wi-Fi networks. Google argued that it should be exempt from liability under the… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Medicare Secondary Payer, Government's Long-Term Fiscal Outlook
Medicare Secondary Payer – Additional Steps Are Needed to, Improve Program Effectiveness for Non-Group Health Plans, GAO-12-333, Mar 9, 2012 The Federal Government’s Long-Term Fiscal Outlook – Spring 2012 Update, GAO-12-521SP, Apr 2, 2012 Continue Reading
