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“This morning, February 6, 2007, ALA President Leslie Burger testified before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, chaired by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), concerning the recent closure of several libraries in the Environmental and Protection Agency (EPA). Link to Burgers full testimony. “As one recently retired EPA librarian described it,” Burger said in …
Energy Information Agency: Short-Term Energy Energy Outlook February 2007 (02/06/2007) – “Quarterly short-term energy projections for supply, demand, and price for the major fuels through 2008 for the U.S. International oil forecasts are included.”
“The Commission has approved the following documents: 1) the FTCs FY 2008 Budget Overview Statement; 2) the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) Performance Plans for FY 2007 and FY 2008; and 3) the Presidents Management Agenda exhibit. These documents are part of the FTCs formal budget request that was submitted to Congress on February …
“A CDT analysis finds that privacy guidelines issued by the Bush Administration for the Information Sharing Environment are inadequate. The ISE is a potentially revolutionary system for exchanging personally identifiable information that was mandated by the intelligence reform act of 2004. Adoption of detailed guidelines to protect privacy was supposed to be a pre-condition for …
New York State Office of the CIO: “Identity and Access Management (IAM) provides an effective way to protect computer-based services and data for all state and local agencies from unauthorized access. Organizational business requirements often result in the need to grant external users access to services and data or to achieve multi-organizational system interoperability. Demand …
“The World Privacy Forum filed public comments with the Department of Health and Human Services in response to an HHS request for information regarding the use of patients’ genetic data for research, health care, and for use in electronic health records. The World Privacy Forum is requesting that HHS use all Fair Information Principles in …
Inspection Letter Report, Alleged Loss or Theft of Personally Identifiable Information at Pantex, February 2, 2007.
Cumulative List of Public Laws, 109th Congress, Second Session. Federal Register: January 31, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 20). This is the cumulative list of public laws for the 109th Congress, Second Session. Other cumulative lists (1993-2006) are available online.
“The Federal Trade Commission has launched the ninth annual National Consumer Protection Week, February 4-10, 2007, in cooperation with federal, state, and local agencies and national advocacy organizations committed to consumer protection and education. This years theme, Read Up and Reach Out. Be an Informed Consumer, encourages consumers to arm themselves with knowledge. By gathering …
“Issued by the Office of Management and Budget, the Budget of the United States Government is a collection of documents that contains the budget message of the President, information about the President’s budget proposals for a given fiscal year, and other budgetary publications that have been issued throughout the fiscal year. Other related and supporting …
Health Information Technology: Early Efforts Initiated but Comprehensive Privacy Approach Needed for National Strategy, Full text GAO-07-400T, and Highlights, February 1, 2007: “GAO identified key challenges associated with protecting electronic personal health information in four areas.”
Press release: “After completing its notification of levee owners, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today released the locations of the levee units nationwide with unacceptable maintenance inspection ratings. An unacceptable maintenance rating means a levee has one or more deficient conditions that can reasonably be foreseen to prevent the project from functioning as designed. …
