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AP reports that New York and Wisconsin have withdrawn their participation in the Multistate Anti-TeRrorism Information EXchange (MATRIX) program. The program now has only five remaining state participants. My other postings on MATRIX. See also A Dual-Edged Sword: Providing Information, Stealing Privacy, “In the case of Matrix and its ilk, our time-honored standards of privacy …
Text of Federal Register Notice, March 11, 2004, Definitions, Implementation, and Reporting Requirements Under the CAN-SPAM Act; Proposed Rule. Appendix A – Privacy Impact Assessment for the Electronic Public Comment System, The Collection of Public Comments Filed Electronically in the CAN-SPAM Rulemaking Proceeding; Appendix B, Federal Trade Commission Privacy Policy, and Appendix C, User Notice …
FY2003 Report to Congress on Implementation of The E-Government Act March 08, 2004 (74 pages, pdf) Press release from Sen. Joe Lieberman: OMB Report Out Today Demonstrates Success Of E-Gov Act – Much Remains to Be Done.
From TechWorld (via Slashdot): “The US government has just bought the world’s biggest ever solid state disk from Texas Memory Systems.” “The 2.5TB system is the largest SSD installation in the world so far, without question, the executive VP for TMS, Woody Hutsell, told Techworld….So where is it and what’s it to be used for?…What …
Description of Revenue Provisions Contained in the President’s Fiscal Year 2005 Budget Proposal, February 2004 (JCS-3-04) TEXT, PDF.
“Cross-agency portals are gateways that bring together federal information and services from multiple agencies about a particular topic or for a particular customer group.”
Adobe press release, New Document Services Software Utilizes PDF, Adobe Reader and 2-D Barcode Technology to Help Customers Speed and Simplify Forms Processing: “Electronic filing is the preferred method of submitting tax forms, but many U.S. taxpayers still choose to file by mail. Technology that allows us to offer fill-and-print tax forms on IRS.gov and …
Industrial Security: DOD Cannot Provide Adequate Assurances That Its Oversight Ensures the Protection of Classified Information. GAO-04-332, March 3. Highlights. “DoD’s Defense Security Service (DSS) cannot provide adequate assurances to goverment that its oversight of contractor facilities reduces the risk of information compromise.”
“GPO officials appeared before the Senate Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee this week [March 4] to request $25 million for digital publishing and distribution technology.” [Link] “Our vision is to move the GPO forward from a predominantly ink-on-paper distributor of printing requirements to a life-cycle manager of digital Government information, electronically collecting, organizing, processing, and protecting …
Now available from the Census Bureau, the 2003 Statistical Abstract of the United States: users may download the text, which is published in 31 sections, as well as appendices and associated content, all in pdf.
New from GPO Access on March 4, the addition of the Final House Calendar, 108th Congress, First Session to the searchable database that dates back to the 104th Congress.
From the Food and Drug Administraton, Drugs@FDA is a “Catalog of FDA Approved Drug Products; Approved and tentatively approved prescription, over-the-counter, and discontinued drugs; Drug approval letters, labels, and review packages. (updated daily) Searchable by Drug Name or Active Ingredient, or Browse by Drug Name.
