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From USA Today: Identity theft, new law about to send shredding on a tear Related reference: Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA) Related resources: National Association for Information Destruction and Shop n’Shed Drop-off Shredding Locator (search for shredding services in your vicinity.)
Corrupt Techniques in Evidence Presentations: New Chapter from Beautiful Evidence. Below is an excerpt from the forthcoming book by Edward Tufte. “Here is the first of several chapters on consuming presentations, on what alert members of an audience or readers of a report should look for in assessing the credibility of the presenter…Corrupt maneuvers…are epidemic …
Press release: “Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the FBI and other offices of the US Department of Justice, seeking the release of documents that would reveal whether the government has been using the USA PATRIOT Act to spy on Internet users’ reading habits without a …
Opinio Juris – “A weblog dedicated to reports, commentary, and debate on current developments and scholarship in the fields of international law and politics.” Authored by law professors Christopher J. Borgen, Peggy McGuinness and Julian G. Ku. [thanks Dan]
Preserving Democracy: What Went Wrong in Ohio. Status Report of the House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff, January 5, 2005 (102 pages, PDF): “Representative John Conyers, Jr., the Ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, asked the Democratic staff to conduct an investigation into irregularities reported in the Ohio presidential election and to prepare a Status …
“GPO Information Dissemination (ID) has issued a new ID policy, “Withdrawal of Federal Information Products from Information Dissemination Collection and Distribution Programs.” The policy, ID 72, supersedes SOD 72 dated July, 22, 2002. The revised policy establishes conditions under which a document may be withdrawn, recalled, or restricted in access; it outlines GPO and publishing …
Press release from Human Rights Watch: “The Human Rights Watch World Report 2005 contains survey information on human rights developments in more than 60 countries in 2004. In addition to the introductory essay on Darfur and Abu Ghraib, the volume contains three essays on broad human rights issues: religion and human rights, sexuality and the …
Newly published research from Ben Edelman: see Investors Supporting Spyware. He lists US companies who produce spyware, their investors and how much venture funding was provided to each project (along with links to relevant SEC filings). Associated research also from Ben: Media Files that Spread Spyware.
Security Focus has an in-depth report on how a Hacker penetrates T-Mobile systems and steals personal data, including social security numbers, emails, photos and Secret Service documents. [via David Reis]
News feeds now available include: the magazine’s Table of contents (current issue), News Summaries, This Week in Science, Editors’ Choice, NetWatch, and ScienceNOW daily headlines. [Link to the complete newsfeeds’ list]
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT), Commission on Systemic Interoperability “is charged with developing a comprehensive strategy for the adoption and implementation of health care information technology standards.” The commission must deliver to Congress by October 31 a comprehensive plan for the implementation of electronic health records. References Federal Register, …
Why A Utah Court Was Right to Hold That, Under Utah Law, Pop-up Ads Are Not “Spam” by Anita Ramasastry.
