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From the press release today: “The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) today announced the release of the Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) for the testing phase of the Secure Flight program along with a proposed order to airlines to provide one months worth of Passenger Name Records (PNR) data to be used for program testing. The PIA …
Ready or Not (and Maybe Not), Electronic Voting Goes National “Just over six weeks before the nation holds the first general election in which touch-screen voting will play a major role, specialists agree that whatever the remaining questions about the technology’s readiness, it is now too late to make any significant changes.” Related reference from …
From the egov.com press release: “FirstGov.gov, Uncle Sam’s most successful federal Web site, provided a sneak preview of an online toolkit that will enable all federal agencies to replicate the success of this award- winning site… The kit will guide federal Web managers as they design U.S. government Web sites to be the most citizen-focused …
From the press release: “The NLM Catalog provides access to NLM bibliographic data for over 1.2 million journals, books, audiovisuals, computer software, electronic resources, and other materials via the NCBI Entrez retrieval system.” [thanks d.c.] NLM Catalog Help
“Federal agencies that collect personal and other information on American citizens would be required to report on those activities to Congress as part of a proposal coauthored by Senators Russell Feingold (D-Wisc.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) that has passed the U.S. Senate.” [Link] See H.R. 4567, Making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for …
“The FTC today issued a assessing whether and how a system that rewards members of the public for tracking down spammers would or could help improve enforcement of the CAN-SPAM Act. That Act, which became effective on January 1, 2004, required the FTC to conduct a study and provide a report to Congress on a …
Non-profit advocacy group OMB Watch today issued a report documenting the administration’s record on regulatory issues that include health, safety and the environment. [thanks to DC] “In this analysis, we looked at four agencies that are particularly important to the public interest: the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National …
News about this order, Schade v. State Board of Elections, from Federal Computer Week and the Washington Post, with my previous postings, Effort in Maryland to Prevent E-Voting Fails and Maryland Case Challenging Lack of E-Voting Paper Trail To Be Heard this Week
“Geodata.gov is part of the Geospatial One-Stop E-Gov initiative providing access to geospatial data and information.” Use this link to learn about the site’s features.
CAPPS II has been revamped and now has the moniker, Secure Flight.
Global E-Government, 2004, by Darrell M. West, Center for Public Policy, Brown University. “The data for our analysis consist of an assessment of 1,935 national government websites for the 198 nations around the world…Among the sites analyzed are those of executive offices…legislative offices…judicial offices…Cabinet offices, and major agencies serving crucial functions of government, such as …
U.S. Government Manual: Main Page, 2004-2005 Edition “As the official handbook of the Federal Government, the United States Government Manual provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches. It also includes information on quasi-official agencies, international organizations in which the United States participates, and boards, commissions, and committees.”
