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Federal Trade Commission Report to Congress, Pursuant to the Do Not Call Implementation Act, on Regulatory Coordination in Federal Telemarketing Laws (September 2003). [Link] Text of the Commission Report Appendix A: The Federal Trade Commission’s Amended Telemarketing Sales Rule and Statement of Basis and Purpose Appendix B: The Federal Communications Commission’s Amended Telephone Consumer Protection …
Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (CAPPS II), to be implemented by the summer of 2004, is the focus of several recent articles and notices: From the Washington Post, Fliers to Be Rated for Risk Level – New System Will Scrutinize Each Passenger, Assign Color Code Opinion from the St. Petersburg Times, Fly the suspicious skies: …
The report and data listed below were published by Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), who issued this related news advisory on August 25 about their research on the Department of Homeland Security, which is ongoing and will result in further documentation. Department of Homeland Security – The First Months Department of Homeland Security, Location of …
Steven Clift posted to Slashdot on his recent article, E-Democracy, E-Governance, and Public Net-work, which offers some interesting recommendations along with illustrative web links.
AP reported that commercial online public records provider ChoicePoint has eliminated its database of “personal information of 65 million voting-age Mexican citizens” following a controvery surrounding the means by which this information was obtained. The company has a contract with the Dept. of Justice, which uses the system for activities associated with homeland security. See …
As noted by OMB Watch, on August 29, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), an agency within the Office of Management and Budget, (OMB) released a draft bulletin “proposing a standardized process by which all significant regulatory documents (of the most important science disseminated by the federal government) will be subject to peer …
Homeland Security: Efforts to Improve Information Sharing Need to Be Strengthened. GAO-03-760, August 27. Highlights. From ComputerWorld: “The Department of Homeland Security hasn’t effectively coordinated the multitude of information-sharing efforts now under way throughout the nation, creating a situation where critical clues to impending terrorist attacks may once again go unnoticed.”
This FTC press release from August 27 includes information, associated fees and links for use by telemarketers to obtain data from the national do not call registry when it is released on September 2.
The Library of Congress announced the official acquisition, on September 10, 2003, of a collection comprising over 130,000 “written accounts, e-mails, audio recordings, video clips, photographs, websites, and other materials that document the attacks on New York City, Washington D.C., and western Pennsylvania and their aftermath.” On that day, LC will also host a symposium, …
PATRIOT Propaganda: Justice Department’s PATRIOT Act Website Creates New Myths About Controversial Law. See also my previous posting on the Preserving Life & Liberty website.
A recently released GAO report, Records Management: National Archives and Records Administration’s Acquisition of Major System Faces Risks, documents significant problems with the develpment of the Electronic Records Archives (ERA). The “ERA will authentically preserve and provide access to any kind of electronic record, free from dependency on any specific hardware or software.”
From the USPTO press release: “The American Library Association (ALA) recently selected the Department of Commerces United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Web site as one of the MARS Best Free Reference Web Sites of 2003. MARS is the ALAs Machine-Assisted Reference Section of the Reference and User Services Association, and represents the interests …
