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From FCW.com, “Officials at the General Services Administration are building a system to check the identities of users doing business with agencies online, and they plan to rely on outside organizations to generate users’ digital credentials.”
From the Campaign for Verifiable Voting in Maryland: “A cross-partisan group of registered Maryland voters announced today they will be filing a lawsuit against the Maryland State Board of Elections and its Administrator, charging that the new Diebold AccuVote-TS electronic voting machines recently purchased by Maryland fail to comply with both state and federal law. …
OMB Releases Revised Bulletin on Peer Review; Seeks Additional Public Comment, April 15, 2004: “As part of a continuing effort to enhance the quality and credibility of scientific information that is disseminated to the public, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released today a revised draft of guidance to agencies and requested additional public …
Today the FTC hosted a public workshop, “Monitoring Software on Your PC: Spyware, Adware, and Other Software,” (Agenda, pdf) “to explore the issues associated with the distribution and effects of software that aids in gathering information about a person or organization without their knowledge and which may send such information to another entity without the …
Information Sharing for Homeland Security: Obstacles to Effective Information Sharing Still Exist Post 9/ 11, Issue Paper #1, April 2004, Prepared for Ranking Member Jim Turner, by Select Committee on Homeland Security, Democratic Staff. The report addresses seven issues, as follows: Lack of a Fully Integrated Terrorist Watch List Leaves Country Vulnerable to Attack; Federal …
Interagency Ethics Council: Standards of Conduct for Federal Employees: “This site aims to perform this function by providing timely links to resources at official web sites like the Office of Government Ethics as well as news reports and other resources, including training materials prepared by members of the Interagency Ethics Counsel.” [Jerry Lawson]
SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland Security provides notice of establishment of the Data Integrity, Privacy, and Interoperability Advisory Committee. This notice also requests qualified individuals interested in serving on this committee to apply for membership….Applications forms for membership should reach the Privacy Office on or before April 30, 2004…The Committee’s charter will also be available …
From Judith C. Russell: “For some time, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has been working on a plan to establish a Collection of Last Resort (CLR) to support the shared mission of GPO and Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) to provide comprehensive, timely, permanent public access to U.S. Government publications in all formats.” A …
From the Washington Post, Montgomery County Maryland has launched an enhanced 911 cell phone tracking system that is accurate to within one block. See the FCC’s Enhanced 911 web page for links to public notices, press releases, and waivers. The current rollout deadline is December 31, 2005.
VoteHere, Inc., a manufacturer of e-voting technology, announced the release of the reference source code for its voting verification system. This release was a response to growing public concern about e-voting machine security issues, and is a first for this industry.
MaineMostWanted.org was launched February 2004 using the same technology implemented at the Mass Most Wanted site, launched June 2002. Users may search by keyword, case number, type of crime, height, weigh, build, gender, city or region of the state.
“U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force issued its final report to the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Canada, who formed the Task Force and commissioned its investigation of the August 14, 2003, power blackout that affected large parts of the United States and Canada.” Secretary Abraham Releases Statement on Final …
