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ComputerWorld reports on enterprisewide search applications implemented by large corporations for a range of tasks, including competitive intelligence, e-discovery, and generating intranet content. Solutions such as FAST, Autonomy and Endeca index formats including text, audio and video.
Press release: “Neil Holloway, president of Microsoft Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), unveiled a global law enforcement campaign that will target cybercriminals behind phishing attacks. Microsoft Corp. announced that by the end of June 2006 it will have initiated legal actions on more than 100 cases in EMEA against individuals suspected of committing online …
FOIA Facts – Sunshine Week and Other Things, by Scott A. Hodes CongressLine by GalleryWatch.com – The Earmark – Part 2, by Paul Jenks E-Discovery Update – by Fios Inc. – Working With Obsolete Data, by Conrad J. Jacoby
Press release: “Attorney General Eliot Spitzer today announced a settlement to address what may have been the largest breach of privacy in internet history. The settlement with Datran Media, a leading e-mail marketer, follows an investigation that identified the improper disclosure of the personal information of more than six million American consumers.” Assurance of Discontinuance
U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration: Taxpayers Beware of Widespread Phishing Schemes Involving the IRS IRS: Phishing, Identity Theft and Scams
Press release: “In New York on March 9, 2006, attorneys with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a significant motion for summary judgment in the challenge to the legality of the NSA Domestic Spying Program (CCR v. Bush), asserting that the Bush Administration has already admitted enough incriminating facts to prove the NSA Program …
Follow-up to National Journal Article Claims Curtailed Gov’t Surveillance Program Still Active, from today’s New York Times, Taking Spying to Higher Level, Agencies Look for More Ways to Mine Data: “…by fundamentally changing the nature of surveillance, high-tech data mining raises privacy concerns that are only beginning to be debated widely. That is because to …
Follow-up to Correspondence on Libby Indictment Mentions Missing Emails, this report by Jason Leopold states, “The White House turned over last week 250 pages of emails from Vice President Dick Cheneys office…Sources close to the probe said the White House “discovered” the emails two weeks ago and turned them over to Fitzgerald last week. The …
“Summary: NARA is revising our regulations to provide for the appropriate management and disposition of very short-term temporary e-mail, by allowing agencies to manage these records within the e-mail system.” Federal Register, February 21, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 34)] [Rules and Regulations][Page 8806-8808].
New York Times: Too Many New Gadgets, Too Much Information at Risk: Loss, theft and viruses are major issues as corporate use of handheld devices and pocket PCs increases. Pre-emptive security options are available however, as this article describes.
They Havent Got Mail – The Katrina hearings havent only revealed critical information about White House responses to the hurricane. Theyve also uncovered the online secrets of Donald Rumsfeld and Michael Chertoff: “…congressional investigations of government responses to Hurricane Katrina have revealed that two of the nation’s key crisis managers, the secretaries of Defense and …
The Christian Science Monitor: US plans massive data sweep – Little-known data-collection system could troll news, blogs, even e-mails. Will it go too far?
