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Lieberman Unveils Plan To Protect Privacy, Break Down Bush’s Wall Of Secrecy: “Joe Lieberman became the first candidate to release a comprehensive plan for protecting people’s personal privacy and breaking down George Bush’s wall of secrecy around his Administration. Among other steps, Lieberman would double the penalties for identity theft, get tough on credit reporting …
IRS will track Free File taxpayers: Even as the IRS encourages taxpayers to take advantage of the ease and efficiency of e-filing, news that information gathered from these services will be monitored by the agency has resulted in negative responses from industry representatives and privacy advocates.
Senators Lieberman and Corzine called for the Library of Congress to expand content and provide enhanced search features on Thomas, the free, searchable database of federal legislation. [Link]
From Secrecy News, a copy of a Congressional Research Service internal memo from December 2003 that addresses the escalating controversy on restrictions to public dissemination of CRS reports.
Treasury breaks word on e-mail anonymity: “The Treasury Department’s Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) plans to publish nearly 10,000 e-mail addresses on the Web, violating its privacy promise to Americans who used e-mail to comment on a government proceeding.”
A U.S. Newswire release dated January 6 states that National Press Club President Tammy Lytle, (who is also the bureau chief for the Orlando Sentinel) sent a letter to Sec. of Defense Rumsfeld expressing opposition to a new policy concerning website content issued by Defense Department Inspector General Joseph Schmitz. In a December 5 memo, …
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A trio of recent articles on government data mining programs: The Safeguards Needed for Government Data Mining The Department of Defense Inspector General’s Recommendations, and Beyond – Homeland data mining efforts will differ from Pentagon’s Pentagon failed to study privacy issues in data-mining effort, IG says
This December 30 letter from the William T. Woods, GAO’s Director of Acqusitions and Sourcing Management, to the Director, Office of Management and Budget, is titled Reliability of Federal Procurement Database. According to a GAO investigation, the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) is “inaccurate and incomplete,” and there are “sufficient problems to warrant concern about …
As I previously posted December 9, hundreds of cities and localities around the country are turning to the web to auction unclaimed property using eBay. The New York Times reported on January 4 that New York City has chosen to auction a vast array of items from its property rooms using an online auction site …
Clicking for President – Blogs, meetups, listservs, and other online tools bring a digital aspect to every campaign.
As a follow-up to my posting U.S. Animal Tracking Database Still Under Development, this AP article, Mad Cow Scare May Spur High-Tech Tracking. What is Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)? Previous beSpacific postings on RFID See also BSE Information and Resources from the USDA
