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Facts and Figures About Your Community: “This page provides links to facts on the environment, health, science, travel, and more.” “Check today’s ozone levels in your town; get a health profile of your state; check the average price of a home and current mortgage rates; check your state’s reading and math test scores.”
Press release: “The Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has launched a Web site dedicated to small businesses and protecting their intellectual property (IP), both in the U.S. and abroad. Specifically designed to answer common questions of small businesses so they can better identify and address their protection needs, the new …
The National Sex Offender Public Registry includes data from 21 states and the District of Columbia.
Aviation Security: Transportation Security Administration Did Not Fully Disclose Uses of Personal Information During Secure Flight Program Testing in Initial Privacy Notes, but Has Recently Taken Steps to More Fully Inform the Public, GAO-05-864R, July 22, 2005. See also related postings on the TSA Secure Flight program
“Today, the National Womens Health Information Center (NWHIC) is proud to announce our newly updated home page and web site address (www.WomensHealth.gov). As women’s health continues to gain more visibility, we recognized the need to redesign our home page to make it easier and faster for you to navigateso you can find the health information …
Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment: A Progress Report on Information Sharing for Homeland Security “Christopher Cox (R-CA) opened this morning’s Subcommittee hearing on information sharing for homeland security, what he called an indispensable part of this Committees oversight responsibilities. “We want to be reassured that DHS, in particular, has engaged its …
Senate Budget Committee: Health Information Technology: The Federal Role and Budget Implications Testimony of Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Mike Leavitt (12 pages, PDF)
All the articles listed are available in Part 1 of the July 2005 issue of LLRX.com: Delivering Actionable Information To Front-Line Lawyers – John Alber details the effective implementation of business intelligence (BI) systems within law firms. The Government Domain: Bloggin’ USA – Peggy Garvin looks at three free web services that leverage blogs and …
The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) outlines a framework for DHS to secure the use of personally identifiable information purchased from commercial services. CDT Recommended Policies for Use of Private Sector Data, July 18, 2005. (6 pages, PDF)
As a follow-up to my December 12, 2003 posting, E-ZPass Technology, Law Enforcement and Privacy, see this article, A Pass on Privacy, from the Sunday New York Times Magazine: “The computer system to which you have surrendered your payment information also records data about your movements and habits. It can be hacked into.” Read on.
The Security Pretext: An Examination of the Growth of Federal Police Agencies, CATO Briefing Paper, by Melanie Scarborough. Full Text of Briefing Papers no. 94, 16 pages, (PDF) See also: Cities opening more video surveillance eyes, by Martha T. Moore, USA TODAY The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age, by Jeffrey …
New Bush Statement on Rove Conflicts with Executive Order: “Rep. Waxman explains that the President’s responsibility under E.O. 12958 to protect national security secrets requires the President to act before Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald completes his criminal investigation and to apply different standards and sanctions.” Letter to President Bush (5 pages, PDF) Related postings here …
