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Press release, June 7, 2005, Cornyn, Leahy Call For Greater TransparencyIn Congressional FOIA Exemption Attempts -Congress should not establish new secrecy provisions through secret means: “U.S. Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) introduced bipartisan legislation Tuesday to ensure greater openness in the legislative process. The bill creates additional legislative transparency by requiring that …
Follow-up to several postings on the FEC and bloggers (here, here, and here), news today from the Center for Democracy and Policy: “In two sets of comments filed today with the Federal Election Commission, CDT urged the FEC to declare that the online political speech of bloggers and other ordinary citizens is exempt from the …
Information Security: Radio Frequency Identification Technology in the Federal Government GAO-05-551, May 27, 2005. Highlights: “Of the 16 agencies that responded to the question on legal issues associated with RFID implementation in our survey, only one identified what it considered to be legal issues. These issues relate to protecting an individual’s right to privacy and …
IBM press release, May 24, 2005: “IBM today introduced first-of-its-kind software that allows organizations to anonymously share and compare information without revealing private or sensitive personal details, introducing a new era of open, collaborative data sharing in financial services, healthcare, retail and other industries. The breakthrough IBM technology, DB2 Anonymous Resolution, helps customers to rapidly …
Press release, May 24, 2005: Miller, Schakowsky Launch Unprecedented E-Hearing on United Airlines Pension Plans – Online Hearing is Believed to Be First of Its Kind; Witnesses Invited to Provide Testimony Via Email “Representatives George Miller (D-CA) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) launched an online hearing today which they believed to be the first-ever e-hearing …
Enron Offers an Unlikely Boost to E-Mail Surveillance This article references the work of Dr. David B. Skillicorn and Dr. Kathleen M. Carley
FTC press release today: FTC, Partners Launch Campaign Against Spam “Zombies”: “The Federal Trade Commission and 35 government partners from more than 20 countries have targeted the technology trick used by illegal spammers to tap into consumers’ home computers and use them to send millions of pieces of illegal spam. Spammers use hidden software that …
Press release, May 19, 2005: Metro adopts privacy policy and makes other records easier to access: “A new privacy policy adopted by the Metro Board today protects the privacy of customers’ personal information. The new policy was designed to protect the privacy of individuals by disclosure without prior written authorization from the person. It assures …
Dockets Update, by Robyn Rebollo Bibliography of Employment Resources for Law Librarians, by Gloria Miccioli The Federal Civil Code of Mexico, by Prof. Jorge A. Vargas The Government Domain: New Tools For Government Research After Hours: Taste of the Nation Comes to Brooklyn / Meet Cuke Skywalker / Mail Order Wine, by Kathy Biehl
As reported by the Chicago Tribune on May 20, 2005 (and cited in American Libraries Online, with another article in the Washington Post), this summer, the Naperville, Illinois public library will install biometric scanners on their 130 PCs with web access. Related article from UPI today, on an analysis of biometrics published in the May …
Index of Drug Specific Information: “FDA is in the process of updating its drug safety information and making it available to consumers in a new, user friendly format. Under the new format, clicking on a drug takes you to a “core page” with links to all information on that drug available on the FDA site. …
‘Real ID’ Faces Reality: “The National Conference of State Legislatures estimates it could cost states as much as $750 million to implement measures required by the act, including some $80 million to create links among state databases.” From the Washington Post (reg. req’d), Anti-Terror Legislation Expected to Lengthen DMV Lines Link to text of Real …
