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Guidance for Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD) 12 Implementation (May 23 2008) (4 pages): “This document serves as a guideline to assist agencies in preparing or refining plans for incorporating the use of Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials, to the maximum extent practicable, with physical and logical access control systems.”
Government Technology: “The New York State Office for Technology and the New York State Archives, a program of the State Education Department, issued a report last week that examines how the state can provide choice, interoperability and vendor neutrality in electronic document creation while ensuring electronic records are preserved and remain accessible. A Strategy for …
Memorandum For The Heads Of Executive Departments And Agencies. SUBJECT: Designation and Sharing of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), May 21, 2008. “This memorandum (a) adopts, defines, and institutes “Controlled Unclassified Information” (CUI) as the single, categorical designation henceforth throughout the executive branch for all information within the scope of that definition, which includes most information …
“EPIC filed a “friend of the court” brief (pdf) in the United States Supreme Court, urging the Justices to ensure the accuracy of police databases. The brief was filed on behalf of 27 legal scholars and technical experts and 13 privacy and civil liberty groups. In Herring v. US, the Court will be asked to …
“CDT’s Health Privacy Project today released a paper urging policymakers and the private sector to develop and implement a comprehensive privacy and security framework to govern the wide range of computer and Internet-based systems being created to share sensitive health information. The paper examines the key issues confronting the adoption of information technology in the …
A Little Grafting of Second Life into a Legal Research Class: Rob Hudson discusses how Second Life can be used to enhance legal research instruction. Experiments in full class lectures and other uses of Second Life in higher education offer a mixture of hype and excitement. Published May 9, 2008 CongressLine: Running for Congress: Paul …
The Personal Information Trainer, by Stuart Basefsky Criminal Law Resources: Fingerprint Evidence Challenges, by Ken Strutin The Social Networking Titans: Facebook and MySpace, by Deborah Ginsberg and Meg Kribble Update to Choosing Law Librarianship: Thoughts for People Contemplating a Career Move, by Mary Whisner Living With the Asus Eee PC, by Conrad J. Jacoby Competitive …
National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, 2005-2006. February 2008 37 pp. (PHS) 2008-1205 “This report is the latest in a series of periodic reviews of the work of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), the statutory public advisory committee on health information policy to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of …
Still Seeking a Truly Digital Life – Analysis: “The French call it ‘dematerialization’ but the search for a paperless existence continues to elude even technophiles.” Peter Sayer, IDG News Service.
Follow up to previous postings on litigation and hearings on missing White House email and violations of the Presidential Records Act, news today from AP: “Older White House computer hard drives have been destroyed, the White House disclosed to a federal court Friday in a controversy over millions of possibly missing e-mails from 2003 to …
Eight Legal Technology Trends for 2008 Good Times, Bad Times or Hard Times in Legal Tech? by Dennis Kennedy E-Discovery Update: Resolving Client-Vendor Disputes, by Conrad Jacoby Happ-eee with my Eee PC, by Bette Dengel Knowledge Discovery Resources 2008, by Marcus P. Zillman The Government Domain: What’s New in DotGov and Beyond, by Peggy …
The World Privacy Forum – A Legal and Policy Analysis – Personal Health Records: Why Many PHRs Threaten Privacy, Prepared by Robert Gellman for the World Privacy Forum, February 20, 2008 “This document offers a legal and policy analysis of the privacy consequences for consumer health information stored on or by Personal Health Records systems …
