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New York Times interview with DHS Director Michael Chertoff,by Deborah Solomon, April 2, 2006: Chertoff states, “I don’t use e-mail. One reason is when you write an e-mail, you have to be mindful of the fact that nothing ever disappears. It can be deleted, but it is still in the system somewhere…They can get me. …
Defense Critical Technologies, (151 pages, PDF), March 2006. This report is a product of the Defense Science Board (U.S.) and the Defence Scientific Advisory Council (UK). This report is unclassified.
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.
Federal Bureau of Investigation: Weak Controls over Trilogy Project Led to Payment of Questionable Contractor Costs and Missing Assets, Full-text, GAO-06-306, and Highlights, February 28, 2006. “The Trilogy project–initiated in 2001–is the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) largest information technology (IT) upgrade to date. While ultimately successful in providing updated IT infrastructure and systems, Trilogy …
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
Adobe whitepaper, Redaction of Confidential Information in a Document: “How to safely remove sensitive information from Microsoft Word documents and convert to PDF”
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 …
“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.
BMG Music v. Gonzalez, Matt Schruers and Jonathan Band Job Swaps and Library Exchanges, by Katie Thomas Got Competitive Intelligence? Tips, Tools, Techniques for the Savvy Marketer (PPT), by Donna Cavallini and Sabrina I. Pacifici The Government Domain: FirstGov Becomes First in Government Search, by Peggy Garvin E-Discovery Update – by Fios Inc. – Defining …
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 …
FTC press release: “The primary reforms to the merger review process establish presumptions that the FTC will: (1) limit the number of employees required to provide information in response to a second request, provided the party complies with specified conditions; (2) reduce the time period for which a party must provide documents in response to …
