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New York Times: “Nancy Paterson, an international war crimes prosecutor who played a leading role in building the case linking the former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic to massacres, mass rape and ethnic cleansing in the Balkans in the 1990s, died on March 27 at her home in Bethesda, Md. She was 56.”
News release: “Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will begin implementing new enhanced security measures for all air carriers with international flights to the United States to strengthen the safety and security of all passengerssuperseding the emergency measures put in place immediately following the attempted …
Follow up to previous postings on government implementation of whole body scanning technology at airports, via EPIC: “In response to a Congressional inquiry, led by Congressman Bennie Thompson, the Transportation Security Agency acknowledged that images on body scanner machines would be recorded for “testing, training, and evaluation purposes.” The TSA also did not dispute that …
Follow up to previous postings on the Domestic Surveillance Program, via EFF, Kevin Bankston: “Today, Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of the federal district court in San Francisco found that the government illegally wiretapped an Islamic charity’s phone calls in 2004, granting summary judgment for the plaintiffs in Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation v. Obama. The court held …
News release: “A broad coalition of privacy groups, think tanks, technology companies and academics today issued principles for updating the key federal law that defines the rules for government access to email and private files stored in the Internet cloud. The coalition cited the need to preserve traditional privacy rights in the face of technological …
“This document, Death Sentences and Executions in 2009, summarizes Amnesty International’s global research on the use of the death penalty in 2009. More than two-thirds of the countries of the world have abolished the death penalty in law or in practice. While 58 countries retained the death penalty in 2009, most did not use it. …
News release: “Telework ExchangeSM, a public-private partnership focused on expanding telework adoption, in partnership with the Federal Managers Association, today announced the results of the Unnecessary Barriers study, which explores agencies performance in hiring, retaining, and effectively managing employees with disabilities. The study reveals that 71 percent of Federal employees feel their agency is committed …
Violence Against Women Act: History and Federal Funding, Garrine P. Laney, Analyst in Social Policy, February 26, 2010 The Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 (VAWA 2005) (P.L. 109-162) was enacted on January 5, 2006. Among other things, VAWA 2005 reauthorized existing VAWA programs and created many new programs. The …
Follow up to Google Discontinues Censored Search in Mainland China and An Interview with David Drummond of Google about the company’s new policies in China, additional perspective as follows: New York Times, Google Searches for a Foreign Policy:”When Google announced last week that it would shut its censored online search service in China, it was …
EPIC: “Senators Charles Schumer and Lindsey Graham have proposed a new national identity card. The Senators would require that “all U.S. citizens and legal immigrants who want jobs” obtain a “high-tech, fraud-proof Social Security card” with a unique biometric identifier. The card, they say, would not contain private information, medical information, or tracking techniques, and …
Follow up to Google Discontinues Censored Search in Mainland China, via the Atlantic, An Interview with David Drummond of Google about the company’s new policies in China by James Fallows: “Since the Beijing Olympics, our experience in China has gotten worse. Although we have gained market share, it has become more and more difficult for …
Official Google Blog: “On January 12, we announced on this blog that Google and more than twenty other U.S. companies had been the victims of a sophisticated cyber attack originating from China, and that during our investigation into these attacks we had uncovered evidence to suggest that the Gmail accounts of dozens of human rights …
