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Gumshoe Librarian 2006, by Barbara Fullerton and Sabrina I. Pacifici Let the People Know the Facts: Can Government Information Removed from the Internet Be Reclaimed?, by Susan Nevelow Mart Beyond Google and Yahoo: Advanced Search, by Tom Mighell and Sabrina I. Pacifici. CongressLine, by GalleryWatch.com – Congressional Scandals, Corruption and Misbehavior, by Paul Jenks Setting …
An interesting article in today’s National Law Journal (free) discusses issues associated with the integrity of digital evidence, including email, photos, and metadata.
SEC press release: “The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed a civil injunctive action against Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated for failing to produce tens of thousands of e-mails during the Commission’s IPO and Research Analyst investigations from Dec. 11, 2000, through at least July 2005. The Commission alleges in its complaint that Morgan Stanley …
Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Consideration of Key Principles Needed in Addressing Implementation for Smaller Public Companies, Full Report GAO-06-361, and Highlights, April 13, 2006. “…for smaller public companies (defined in this report as $700 million or less in market capitalization), the cost of compliance has been disproportionately higher (as a percentage of revenues) than for large public …
HealthNex blog, sponsored by IBM, is a joint effort by industry and consumer groups, focused on sharing resources pertaining to e-health records and other IT related issues (such as RFID technology and patient privacy).
Information Technology: Near-Term Effort to Automate Paper-Based Immigration Files Needs Planning Improvements, Full text GAO-06-375, Highlights, March 31, 2006. “The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) relies on about 55 million paper-based files to adjudicate applications for immigration status and other benefits. Ensuring the currency and availability of these manual files, referred to as …
Follow the E-Mail Trail – What you can learn from the data embedded in e-mail headers, by Mark A. Berman and Aaron Zerykier, The National Law Journal.
ComputerWorld reports that Westchester County in New York is the first county in the nation to require all businesses with wireless networks that collect consumer related data to use “minimun security measures.”
Financial Management Systems: Lack of Disciplined Process Puts Effective Implementation of Treasury’s Governmentwide Financial Report System at Risk, Full-text GAO-06-413, Highlights, April 21, 2006.
ABA Journal: Understanding Search-Term Basics Ensures More Thorough E-Discovery Compliance
Federal Register: April 10, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 68)][Rules and Regulations][Page 18007-18008], National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Final Rule: “The Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO), National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), is publishing this Directive pursuant to section 102(b)(1) of Executive Order 12829, as amended, relating to the National Industrial Security Program. This order …
FCW.com: Agencies risk unwitting release of sensitive information using popular office software: “The causes of much of the hidden data problem are users’ ignorance of how digital documents work and software companies’ tendency to give customers too much of what they want ease of use and flexibility.”
