Category «E-Government»

Guardian – US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet

James Ball, Julian Borger and Glenn Greenwald – NSA and GCHQ unlock encryption used to protect emails, banking and medical records: “US and British intelligence agencies have successfully cracked much of the online encryption relied upon by hundreds of millions of people to protect the privacy of their personal data, online transactions and emails, according to top-secret documents revealed by former contractor Edward …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Financial System, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Patriot Act, Privacy

Web Resource Documents Latest Firestorm over NSA

“Recent press disclosures about National Security Agency (NSA) electronic surveillance activities — relying on documents provided by Edward Snowden — have sparked one of the most significant controversies in the history of the U.S. Intelligence Community. Today, the nongovernmental National Security Archive at The George Washington University posts a compilation of over 125 documents — …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, E-Government, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation, Privacy

Preventable Deaths from Heart Disease & Stroke

CDC Vital Signs, September 2013 – “Nearly 1 in 3 deaths in the US each year is caused by heart disease and stroke. At least 200,000 of these deaths could have been prevented through changes in health habits, such as stopping smoking, more physical activity, and less salt in the diet; community changes to create …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Health Care

New GAO Reports – DOD Financial Management, Standards For Internal Control In The Federal Government

DOD Financial Management – Ineffective Risk Management Could Impair Progress toward Audit-Ready Financial Statements, GAO-13-123, Aug 2, 2013 Standards For Internal Control In The Federal Government – 2013 Exposure Draft, GAO-13-830SP, Sep 3, 2013

Subjects: E-Government, E-Records, Financial System, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management

Industry Statistics Portal

“This new Web application, which replaces the existing Industry Statistics Sampler, provides easy access to all Census Bureau programs that release statistics for a user-selected industry, as classified by the North American Industry Classification System. Census Bureau business and industry statistics dating back to 1997 (according to the 2007 classification) will be available on the …

Subjects: E-Government, Economy, Education, Financial System, Government Documents

NYT – Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s

Scott Shane and Colin Moynihan: “For at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counternarcotics program have had routine access, using subpoenas, to an enormous AT&T database that contains the records of decades of Americans’ phone calls — parallel to but covering a far longer time than the National Security Agency’s hotly disputed collection of phone …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Government, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Privacy

Australia – The Coalition’s Policy for E-Gov and Digital Economy

The Coalition’s Policy for E-Government and the Digital Economy, August 2013 “One of the Coalition’s core principles is a preference for markets, because markets typically produce better outcomes than governments. But government can play a valuable leadership role in the economy, particularly in periods of structural change. If elected, a Coalition government intends to play …

Subjects: E-Commerce, E-Government, Economy, Financial System, Internet

National Archives Issues Guidance for Managing Billions of Federal Emails

News release: “The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has issued guidance for Federal agencies on a simplified approach to managing email. NARA Bulletin 2013-02: Guidance on a New Approach to Managing Email Records introduces a new approach to managing the billions of email messages that are sent or received in Federal agencies. The approach …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Mail, Government Documents, Internet

New leaked NSA documents hightlight extensive US cyber-ops

Washington Post: U.S. spy agencies mounted 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, documents show, By Barton Gellman and Ellen Nakashima “U.S. intelligence services carried out 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, the leading edge of a clandestine campaign that embraces the Internet as a theater of spying, sabotage and war, according to top-secret documents obtained by The …

Subjects: Cybercrime, E-Government, Government Documents, Patriot Act

NBC Reports – “How Snowden did it”

Richard Esposito and Matthew Cole, NBC News: “When Edward Snowden stole the crown jewels of the National Security Agency, he didn’t need to use any sophisticated devices or software or go around any computer firewall. All he needed, said multiple intelligence community sources, was a few thumb drives and the willingness to exploit a gaping …

Subjects: Cybercrime, E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Patriot Act, PC Security

DOD – Information Technology and Cyber Operations

Via Steven Aftergood, testimony of director of the National Security Agency and Commander of U.S. Cyber Command: Information Technology and Cyber Operations: Modernization and Policy Issues to Support the Future Force, hearing before the House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Intelligence, Emerging Threats and Capabilities, March 13, 2013 (published July 2013). “Potential adversaries are demonstrating …

Subjects: Congress, Cybercrime, E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

Der Spiegel – New leaked NSA documents outline NSA surveillance at UN

Spiegel Online International, Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark: “The NSA documents seen by SPIEGEL also show that the US intelligence agency has managed to penetrate deeply into the UN. In June of last year, a report notes that the NSA had gained access to the UN’s internal teleconferencing system.”

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Patriot Act, Privacy

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