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November 8, 2004 – Text of Follow-up Letter from Reps. Conyers, Nadler, Wexler, Scott, Watt and Holt to GAO Comptroller Walker Requesting Investigation of Voting Machines and Technologies Used in 2004 Election November 5, 2004 – Text of Letter from Reps. Conyers, Nadler and Wexler to GAO Comptroller Walker Requesting Investigation of Voting Machines and …
Social Security Numbers: Governments Could Do More to Reduce Display in Public Records and on Identity Cards GAO-05-59, November 9, 2004. Highlights. “Social Security numbers appear in any number of records exposed to public view almost everywhere in the nation, primarily at the state and local levels of government. State agencies in 41 states and …
And to take a look at this article on how companies large and small are cutting technology costs by using open source applications, VoIP, scaling back on hardware purchases. In addition, there is less corporate focus on next “killer app.” See also Paid Placements Hit Travel Booking Sites
For veterans, the My HealtheVet website has implemented the first stage of an electronic personal health record, with new features that provide registered users with the ability to create and update personal health care records online, inclusive of personal information, military health history, medications (prescription and other), medical events, tests, and allergies.
FCC press release, 11/09/04: “The Federal Communications Commission declared today that a type of Internet telephony service offered by Vonage Holdings Corp. called DigitalVoice is not subject to traditional state public utility regulation. The Commission also stated that other types of IP-enabled services, such as those offered by cable companies, that have basic characteristics similar …
A copy of DHS Form 11000-6, Non-Disclosure Agreement for Sensitive But Unclassified Information, dated August 2004, obtained by Secrecy News, and posted here.
From Prof. Robert Vanderbei, Princeton University, this interactive map detailing the election return results by country, in blue and red, using data from USA Today and the U.S. Census database. [thanks k.b.]
For those who are beginning holiday shopping, or others who are working on gadgets presentations (this one is for you b.f.), take a look at the new features available on Yahoo! Shopping.
My experience as an Election Judge in Baltimore County on November 2, 2004 by Avi Rubin: “Voting machines that are vulnerable to wholesale rigging can still perform perfectly normally. It is possible that nobody exploited the vulnerabilities this time around, and it is also possible that there was fraud or serious error, but that they …
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“Beginning November 1, 2004, all criminal case file documents available to the public at a courthouse also will be available remotely through the court’s electronic access system.” [Link]
FTC: Technology, not legislation, needed to fight spyware Orson Swindle, FTC Commission, and Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute, believe that “technology is a better anti-spyware tool than legislation and that it is up to industry to solve the problem, not government.” See the Spy Act (H.R. 2929) and the Internet Spyware …
