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Executive Order 13305 of May 28, 2003, Extension of the President’s Information, Technology Advisory Committee and the President’s, Council of Advisors on Science and Technology: “That section 4(b) of Executive Order 13035, as amended, is further amended by deleting “June 1, 2003,” and inserting in lieu thereof “June 1, 2005.”
California Assembly Bill 578, the Electronic Recording Delivery System Act of 2003, would “authorize a county recorder, upon approval by resolution of the board of supervisors and system certification by the Attorney General, to establish an electronic recording delivery system for the delivery and recording of digitized electronic records affecting the right, title, or interest …
Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren addressed a range of issues, including national security, civil liberties and cybercrime, in this speech from May 29.
In Another Casualty (registration re’q), Margaret M. Jobe, Chair, Notable Documents Panel, American Library Association’s Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) reviews the federal databases and resources that have been removed from the public domain by the Bush Administration in the name of national security, as well as those that may be eliminated in the near …
The new income tax withholding tables are available, in pdf, from the IRS website, reflecting changes from the recent Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003.
From GPO Access: Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 (H.R. 2), TEXT | PDF, Signed into law on May 28, 2003, H.R. 2 amends the Internal Revenue Code to accelerate the increase to the $1,000 child tax credit to include 2003 and 2004. It also maintains the levels and the sunset established …
From the Center for Democracy and Technology, this analysis, Privacy’s Gap: The Largely Non-Existent Legal Framework for Government Mining of Commercial Data, [pdf] May 28, 2003. Quoting from the report, “The government has argued that it should have the same access to consumer data that the private sector has, but in fact it seeks access …
Experts Say Technology Is Widely Disseminated Inside and Outside Military – “Congressional efforts to rein in a Pentagon surveillance project may be ineffective because new surveillance technology is being widely disseminated both inside and outside of the military and other less visible federal offices are pursuing similar research, industry executives and computer scientists say.”
Today’s Wall Street Journal article, Data Collection Is Up Sharply Following 9/11 (subscription req’d), documents examples of the rapid acceleration and increasing sophistication of text mining programs created by private contractors to populate huge, searchable database systems. Used on both a state and federal level, these systems, which are increasingly linked via network applications, are …
“The city Department of Consumer Affairs has begun posting decisions on consumer protection and licensing issues at www.citylaw.org, the Web site of New York Law School’s Center for New York City Law. More than 600 administrative law judges decisions, from January 2003 to the present, are available on the site, and the department plans to …
Officials Who Failed to Put Hijackers on Watch List Not Named. “Seven months after telling Congress he would do so, George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, has yet to provide the names of agency officials responsible for one of the most glaring intelligence mistakes leading up to the attacks of Sept. 11, according …
From Privacy International’s Know Your Data Campaign: “Many of the companies that supply Britains communications services the landline services, cable companies, mobile operators and Internet Service Providers are accumulating a vast amount of personal information about their customers. This “communications data”, which is currently stored for up to seven years, may relate to …
