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The Multistate Anti-TeRrorism Information EXchange (MATRIX), “a pilot effort to increase and enhance the exchange of sensitive terrorism and other criminal activity information between local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies,” has been cancelled. From the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, this April 15, 2005 press release: MATRIX Pilot Project Concludes From the NewStandard: Controversial …
Has the sun set on FOIAs future?: “Kevin Goldberg, legal counsel for the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) said government efforts to prevent the public release of information is forcing many newspapers to go to court.” President Bush addressed the American Society of Newspaper Editors today. The full text of his remarks are available …
The Promise of Internet Intermediary Liability, by Ronald J. Mann and Seth R. Belzley, William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 47, October 2005. “This Essay starts from the realist assumption that government regulation of the internet is inevitable. Thus, instead of focusing on the naïve question of whether the internet should be regulated, it discusses …
From Accenture, the sixth annual global report on delivery of e-government services, “Leadership in Customer Service: New Expectations, New Experiences,” is available free but requires registration to download. Use this link to review excerpts that include Background, Key Findings, and The Citizens’ View. Press release – Governments Must Move Beyond eGovernment Initiatives to Enhance Customer …
New Poll Shows Air Travelers Are Strongly Opposed to Lifting the Ban on Cell Phones in Flight, April 7, 2005. “The poll, sponsored by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA and the National Consumers League, was conducted as the Federal Communications Commission moves ahead with a rule-making process aimed at lifting its ban on cell phones …
Goodbye to Privacy, by William Safire, April 10, 2005 New York Times Book Review, focuses on the pervasiveness of electronic data collection of personal information on U.S. citizens, by a range of companies. Two recent books, No Place to Hide and Chatter, Dispatches From the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping detail at great length post …
“Welcome to the Election Monitor, the BBC News website’s campaign weblog. From now until polling day, we will be bringing you first-hand reports from around the country from our team of correspondents, as well as the best of the newspapers, choice morsels from the web, and your e-mails.” Also provides an RSS feed.
The message on the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Joint Electronic Library website today reads as follows: “This website is under review. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.” Secrecy News reported “that the site was taken offline overnight after unclassified documents on the site became the subject of news stories and public controversy.” …
Data on the classification of government documents, compiled by the National Records and Archives Administration’s Information Security Oversight Office, is available in the 2004 Report to the President: “This report provides information on the status of the security classification program as required by Executive Order 12958, as amended, “Classified National Security Information. It includes statistics …
A follow-up to my previous posting, Federal Gov’t Wants To Mine College and University Student Data, is this recently released report: Feasibility of a Student Unit Record System Within the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (168 pages, PDF) “This report describes the feasibility of collecting individual enrollment and financial aid information for each student in …
Telework Exchange Showcases Federal Telework Dividends, Builds Online Federal Telework Community, and Tracks Agencies’ Telework Progress Related reference: Telecommuting Provision Part of 3,000 Page Spending Bill
Press release: Privacilla to U.S. State Department: No RFID Tags in U.S. Passports “Privacilla.org filed comments today with the U.S. Department of State objecting to putting Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags in passports, which all Americans must carry when traveling abroad.” EPIC’s comments on Electronic Passport (PDF) Related postings on RFID and passports
