Can Blogging Assist the Intelligence Community?
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Spyware Workshop Report Available From FTC
“The Federal Trade Commission today released a staff report summarizing the issues and drawing some conclusions from its April 2004 workshop, “Monitoring Software on Your PC: Spyware, Adware, and Other Software.” The report, a transcript of the day-long session, a list of participants and their presentations, and comments filed with the Commission, is available here.” …
Advocacy Group Challenges Increased Spending For TSA Passenger Data Collection Program
EPIC’s letter to the Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee document’s the organizations opposition to substantial FY 2006 budget increases for the “Transportation Security Administration’s surveillance programs.”
Push Continues in Congress for Verified E-Voting Trail
Press release: Senators Clinton and Boxer, Representative Tubbs Jones And Others Unveil Major Election Reform Bill: “The Count Every Vote Act of 2005 (S. 450) will provide a voter verified paper ballot for every vote cast in electronic voting machines and ensures access to voter verification for all citizens, including language minority voters, illiterate voters …
Sen. Schumer Pursues Database Vendors on Issue of ID Theft and Sale of Personal Data
What follows is a group of recent, relevant articles and documents associated with the escalating critical evaluation of database aggregation and sale of personal data and associated digital scams and ID theft. From the New York Times, Senator Says Data Service Has Lax Rules for Security From the Washington Post, Databases Called Lax With Personal …
Rhode Island Sec. of State Implements RSS Feeds Providing Real Time Data Updates
Press release, February 16, 2005: “Secretary of State Matt Brown today unveiled a groundbreaking web data-sharing initiative, which will give citizens and Rhode Island government agencies real-time, ongoing access to the databases maintained by his office. RSSonate…was developed to provide easy access to constantly updated data, which users can then use to create customized information. …
UK Government Launches Virus Alert Website
On February 23, 2005 the UK Home Office launched ITsafe “to provide both home users and small businesses with proven, plain English advice to help protect computers, mobile phones and other devices from malicious attack.” See the press release (PDF) and this page on alert services offered by email and mobile text messaging.
Congress Tentatively Begins to Embrace Blogging
The Latest Initiative in Congress: Blogging As referenced here on February 13, Rep. Pence has a blog; Sen. Patrick Leahy has been blogging since January 4, 2005; Rep. Mark Kirk launched his blog January 9, 2005; and Rep. Katherine Harris began blogging on January 28, 2005. See also Links to State Legislators’ Blogs and Legislatures …
FTC and Spanish Gov’t Work Together to Fight Spam
Memorandum of Understanding On Mutual Enforcement Assistance In Commercial Email Matters Between the Federal Trade Commission of the United States of America and the Agencia Espanola de Proteccion de Datos [Link] Related resource: The London Action Plan on International Spam Enforcement Cooperation
Smartcard Industry Report Compares Technology With RFID
RFID Tags and Contactless Smart Card Technology: Comparing and Contrasting Applications and Capabilities See also this chart comparing the features and applications of RFID tags and contactless smart cards. Related resources: From the EU: “On January 19th, the Working Party 29 adopted a Working Document on data protection issues related to RFID technology (Working document …
Credit Freezes Proposed Deterent to ID Theft
By Chris Jay Hoofnagle, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Putting Identity Theft on Ice: Freezing Credit Reports to Prevent Lending to Impostors. “This article argues that the third actor, credit granting institutions, are culpable for a large number of identity theft cases. Institutions enable identity theft by maintaining lax credit granting practices, …
ID Theft Scam Has Victims in 50 States and DC
From the Washington Post, ID Theft Scam Hits D.C. Area Residents From ChoicePoint: Update on Identity Fraud Notification, 02/21/2005. This announcement includes a chart with a state-by-state accounting of the current number of victims of this scam, addresses the company’s plan to participate in the investigation of the fraud, and its plans to “guard against …
