Category «E-Government»

UK Guardian identifies leak of NSA Surveillance memo, EPIC cites Presidential Policy Directive 20, Atlantic highlights use of metadata

Follow up to previous postings: UK Guardian – Verizon forced to hand over telephone data – full court ruling;  EPIC: Sweeping NSA Domestic Surveillance Order Approved Without Any Ties to Foreign Intelligence Collection and EPIC – Congress Begins Investigation of NSA Domestic Surveillance Program see: Via EPIC: “Presidential Policy Directive 20 orders the creation of …

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Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Patriot Act, Privacy

Notable Government Documents of 2012: Looking Back, Moving Ahead

Notable Government Documents of 2012 (Federal, State and Local) – determined by the ALA/GODORT PANEL “While the 2012 presidential campaign raged, and the brink of the fiscal cliff loomed large, government information continued to be disseminated unabated. One year ago, there was a great hue and cry because the 2012 edition of the Statistical Abstract …

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Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

EFF – Gov’t Says Secret Court Opinion on Law Underlying PRISM Program Needs to Stay Secret

News release: “In a rare public filing in the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), the Justice Department today urged continued secrecy for a 2011 FISC opinion that found the National Security Agency’s surveillance under the FISA Amendments Act to be unconstitutional.  Significantly, the surveillance at issue was carried out under the same controversial legal …

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Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, E-Government, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Patriot Act, Privacy

New York Times on the Government Data Surveillance Program

New York Times on-going reporting: Obama Calls Surveillance Programs Legal and Limited (June 8, 2013) In U.S., News of Surveillance Effort Is Met With Some Concern but Little Surprise (June 8, 2013) Administration Says Mining of Data Is Crucial to Fight Terror (June 8, 2013) News of U.S. Surveillance Draws Anger of Activists and Militants …

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Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, E-Government, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Patriot Act, Privacy

LSE Cities launches new interactive website to show how financial crisis has affected European cities

“London School of Economics and Political Science Cities (LSE Cities) has launched a new free online resource, supported by the Higher Education Innovation Fund, which shows the impact of economic recession and recovery in over 150 of Europe’s largest metropolitan areas. Drawing on forecasting data previously unavailable to the public, the European Metromonitor features an …

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Subjects: E-Government, Economy, Government Documents

EPIC: Sweeping NSA Domestic Surveillance Order Approved Without Any Ties to Foreign Intelligence Collection

Follow up to previous posting, Verizon forced to hand over telephone data – full court ruling, more information news today that provides a more accurate view of the depth and breath data collection of American citizens: via EPIC: An unprecedented order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court indicates that the FBI and the NSA obtained …

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Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, E-Government, Government Documents, Patriot Act, Privacy

Federal Reserve – Financial Accounts of the United States, Z.1 statistical release

“The Z.1 statistical release, previously named Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States, has been renamed Financial Accounts of the United States. As part of the redesign of the Z.1 release, annual tables for the Integrated Macroeconomic Accounts (IMA) are now included. Previously, the IMA were available in the Flow of Funds Guide. Some …

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Subjects: E-Government, Economy, Government Documents

Intelesense Beta Release of Collaborate.org at Annual Future in Review Conference

Collaborate.org “Collaborate.org combines an integrated suite of collaboration tools coupled with all of the world’s geospatial data at your fingertips.”Collaborate.org [from Intelesense Technologies] is a cloud based big data application that currently offers its members features including: Customizable dashboards that can provide easy configuration of the features that matter to the groups who operate a …

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Subjects: Blogs, E-Government, Internet, Knowledge Management

FBI – Preliminary 2012 Crime Statistics: Violent Crime Up, Property Crime Dow

Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report, January-December, 2012: “Preliminary figures indicate that, as a whole, law enforcement agencies throughout the nation reported an increase of 1.2 percent in the number of violent crimes brought to their attention for 2012 when compared with figures reported for 2011. The violent crime category includes murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated …

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Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

Presentation: Survey of Government IT Professionals – Disaster Unpreparedness

“So, how confident are Fed IT professionals in their agencies’ DR2 capabilities?  How ready and resilient are the systems, and do agencies verify by testing? To find out, MeriTalk surveyed 150 Federal DoD and civilian IT professionals in December 2012. The Disaster Unpreparedness report reveals that few agencies are actually prepared to recover their data in …

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Subjects: E-Government, Internet, Knowledge Management
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