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Data Mining: Agencies Have Taken Key Steps to Protect Privacy in Selected Efforts, but Significant Compliance Issues Remain, GAO-05-866, August 15, 2005. Highlights. “The federal government’s increased use of data mining since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, has raised public and congressional concerns…The five data mining efforts we reviewed are used by federal …
From the National Academy of Public Administration: “…an Academy Panel examined USPTO’s organization structure and its work processes to help ensure that USPTO is making progress in meeting workload challenges and implementing its strategic plan. The Panel found that without the ability to adjust its resources to workload, USPTO cannot efficiently respond to higher volumes …
From the AALL Government Documents Special Interest Section, see this searchable database of Fugitive & Electronic-Only Documents, that the committee has reported to GPO. [Mike Ravnitzky]
E-Governance Developments in EU Cities, Reshaping Government Relations to Citizens
From EPIC: “The U.S. Election Assistance Commission held its third and final public hearing in Denver, Colorado on its proposed Voluntary Voting System Guidelines. EPIC’s statement (13 pages, PDF) focused on the importance of election administration in creating reliable, secure, accessible, transparent, accurate, and auditable public elections.”
Following-up on previous postings that address the growing controversy and concern surrounding internet and wireless surveillance by the government, see also this recent article by Trey Popp.
Press release: “The Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced today it has awarded a $212 million contract to Lockheed Martin for a state of the art Integrated Electronic Security System(IESS)/Command, Communication and Control to enhance security throughout the New York transportation network…The IESS calls for the installation of over 1,000 cameras and 3,000 sensors throughout the MTA …
“The intent of this RFI is, consistent with the direction in the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (IRTPA) of 2004, to provide Electronic Directory Services (EDS), or the functional equivalent, to enable authorized participants to locate and access information, organizations, services and personnel in support of their respective mission requirements for terrorism information…An initial …
As a follow-up to my August 12, 2005 posting, Preregistration of Certain Unpublished Copyright Claims, these comments hand delivered to Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Copyright Office, by Tim Berners-Lee and Daniel J. Weitzner of the World Wide Web Consortium, document their oppositon to “the use of a single vendor’s World Wide Web browser” …
Federal Computer Week reported that THOMAS will soon offer users a significant improvement in search capabilities with the addition of “browse navigation that can access content across different systems contained within the Thomas Web site.” [Peggy Garvin] Redesign of the site has been underway for some time now, with incremental improvements released to the public …
From NASCIO’s New Series of Research Briefs on the Privacy Implications of Emerging State Technologies The Year of Working Dangerously: The Privacy Implications of Wireless in the State Workplace Part I (15 pages, PDF), August 2005.
The Government Domain: Back to School for Constitution Day, by Peggy Garvin.
