Category «E-Records»

DNI Announces the Declassification of the Existence of Collection Activities Authorized by President Bush Shortly After Attacks of September 11, 2001

News release, December 21, 2013: “Yesterday, the Director of National Intelligence (“DNI”) announced the declassification of the existence of collection activities authorized by President George W. Bush shortly after the attacks of September 11, 2001. Starting on October 4, 2001, President Bush authorized the Secretary of Defense to employ the capabilities of the Department of Defense, …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Defense, E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation, Patriot Act, Privacy

UN Votes for Symbolic Online Privacy Resolution

Reuters: “The UN General Assembly has unanimously called on a curb of supernormal surveillance of communications. The resolution drafted by Brazil and Germany was in response to revelations over the eavesdropping conducted by the US on a global scale. All 193 UN member states agreed “to respect and protect the right to privacy, including in the context …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Records, Government Documents, Legal Research, Patriot Act, Privacy

Experience from Maximizing Enrollment States in Leadership, Culture Change, Coordination and Data

Managing Program Change – Experience from Maximizing Enrollment States in Leadership, Culture Change, Coordination. December 2013. National Academy for State Health Policy by Hensley-Quinn M, and Snyder A. “Report reviews proven methods to improve insurance enrollment in eight states. Since 2009, eight states have pursued unique approaches toward improving health insurance enrollment by giving people faster access to coverage and more options …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Records, Government Documents, Health Care

Google Transparency Report: Government removal requests continue to rise

“We launched the Transparency Report in 2010 to provide hard evidence of how laws and policies affect access to information online. Today, for the eighth time, we’re releasing new numbers showing requests from governments to remove content from our services. From January to June 2013, we received 3,846 government requests to remove 24,737 pieces of content—a 68 percent increase over the …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Defense, E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Free Speech, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Patriot Act, Privacy

New on LLRX – FOIA Frustration

Via LLRX.com – FOIA Frustration: Attorney and FOIA expert Scott A. Hodes discusses how requestors’ experience in obtaining results from the FOIA process can in large measure be mitigated by two key factors – FOIA Offices must have the ability to follow the law, and top agency management must allow the professionals within the agency to do this.

Subjects: E-Records, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

Gallup – Record High in U.S. Say Big Government Greatest Threat

Now 72% say it is greater threat than big business or big labor, by Jeffrey M. Jones: “Seventy-two percent of Americans say big government is a greater threat to the U.S. in the future than is big business or big labor, a record high in the nearly 50-year history of this question. The prior high for …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Defense, E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Free Speech, Government Documents, Patriot Act, Privacy

Forgot Your Password? books / prints 2013

Artist – Aram Bartholl: “In summer 2012 the social network LinkedIn.com got hacked and lost its whole user database. A few months later parts of the decrypted password list surfaced on the Internet. These eight volumes contain 4.7 million LinkedIn clear text user passwords printed in alphabetical order. Visitors are invited to look up their own password. 8 …

Subjects: Cybercrime, E-Mail, E-Records, ID Theft, Internet, Privacy

Agency MBS Transaction Summary

“On September 13, 2012, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) directed the Open Market Trading Desk (the Desk) at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to begin purchasing additional agency MBS at a pace of $40 billion per month. The FOMC also directed the Desk to maintain its existing policy of reinvesting principal payments …

Subjects: E-Records, Financial System, Government Documents

Tech Giants Call for Global Government Surveillance Reform

“The undersigned companies believe that it is time for the world’s governments to address the practices and laws regulating government surveillance of individuals and access to their information. While the undersigned companies understand that governments need to take action to protect their citizens’ safety and security, we strongly believe that current laws and practices need to …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Defense, E-Mail, E-Records, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Microsoft, Patriot Act, Privacy

Rolling Stone – Snowden and Greenwald: The Men Who Leaked the Secrets

Snowden and Greenwald: The Men Who Leaked the Secrets by Janet Reitman, December 4, 2013. This story is from the December 19th, 2013 – January 2nd, 2014 issue of Rolling Stone. “Early one morning last December, Glenn Greenwald opened his laptop, scanned through his e-mail, and made a decision that almost cost him the story of his life. A …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Defense, E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Patriot Act, Privacy

EFF Introducing a Compendium of the Released NSA Spying Documents

EFF – “The ongoing NSA leaks, Freedom of Information Act lawsuits and government declassification continue to bring vital information to the public about the the ongoing efforts of the NSA and its allies to spy on millions of innocent people. What started out as news detailing the agency’s collections of users’ calling records, phone calls, …

Subjects: Censorship, Courts, E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Internet, Legal Research, Legislation, Patriot Act, Privacy

Password Protection Laws Could Protect Much More than Passwords

O’Donohue, Sarah, ‘Like’ it or Not, Password Protection Laws Could Protect Much More than Passwords (August 1, 2013). 20 J.L. Bus. & Eth. (February 2014, Forthcoming). Available at SSRN “Employers and schools in several states are now prohibited from requesting access to the social networking accounts of their employees, students, and applicants as a result …

Subjects: E-Mail, E-Records, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

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