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Information Technology: Major Federal Networks That Support Homeland Security Functions GAO-04-375, September 17, 2004. Highlights. “Nine agencies identified 34 major networks that support homeland security functions— 32 that are operational and 2 that are being developed… Of these 34, 21 are single-agency networks designed for internal agency communications. Six of the 34 are used to …
Purged! How a Patchwork of Flawed and Inconsistent Voting Systems Could Deprive Millions of Americans of the Right to Vote (44 pages, PDF)
From the press release: “A new general medical journal launched this week with a non-traditional publishing model is the latest top-tier venue for publishing important, peer-reviewed biomedical research, and is being called the first major, international journal to be introduced in more than 70 years. Unlike most medical journals which are available only through costly …
Election Concerns: Will Your Vote Count? Are You Sure? by Diana Botluk Federal and State Election Resources — Updated, by Kathy Biehl
By Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, CATO Institute, this article from the San Francisco Chronicle, Surveillance and the War on Terrorism, What’s in a name?, reviews the cycle of name changes associated with the government’s air passenger surveillance database program. Related news from the Washington Post, via MSNBC, With an ever-expanding “no fly” …
Via Managing Information.com, this news about the launch of LexisNexis Butterworths. Use this link for information on content available through this subscription based service (from the menu on left hand side of the page, choose Content).
Press release: “The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) capped its historic victory in a copyright abuse case against electronic voting machine manufacturer Diebold today. The corporation agreed to pay $125,000 in damages and fees…Diebold is the first company to be held liable for violating section 512(f) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which makes it …
“National Annenberg Election Survey of 2000 was the largest academic election poll ever conducted, and the 2004 survey will match it in size, with a total of about 100,000 interviews. Polling began in October, 2003 and will continue until after the election in November 2004. The survey examines a wide range of political attitudes about …
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The multi-talented Robert Ambrogi (lawyer, author, blogger, Director of WritersforLawyers), published a new column, Web Watch: Intellectual Property Blogs (in Law Technology News, reg. req’d), which he then promptly updated on his blog.
Subscription-based EDGAR Online announced an “alliance” with Hitachi that will expand their content to include data on Japanese public companies, in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) format. [thanks to d.c.]
From the Institute for Applied Autonomy, this information on one of their projects: “iSee is a web-based application charting the locations of closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance cameras in urban environments. With iSee, users can find routes that avoid these cameras (“paths of least surveillance”) allowing them to walk around their cities without fear of being …
