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From Federal Computer Week, this article reviews the challenges of digital preservation programs initiated by LC and GPO. The agencies are seeking technology solutions that harvest data on government documents to fulfill directives to digitize collections, archives and websites. Challenges to these initiatives include copyright issues, vast deep web document repositories, and the tremendous scope …
Committee on Financial Services hearing entitled “Assessing Data Security: Preventing Breaches and Protecting Sensitive Information,” May 04, 2005. Opening Statement of Chairman Michael G. Oxley Opening Statement of Representative Paul E. Gillmor Prepared Testimony: Ms. Barbara Desoer, Global Technology, Service & Fulfillment Executive, Bank of America; Mr. Eugene Foley, President & CEO, Harvard University Employees …
Information on 600,000 current, former Time Warner workers missing
Press Release, April 26, 2005, National Archivist Testified Before Congress on ’06 Budget Request: “In his testimony, the Archivist focused on four areas in particular that are of major importance to the National Archives and Records Administration: The Electronic Records Archives (ERA), the Nixon Library, the National Archives Experience, and the issue of document security.
From the Federal Judiciary Newsroom today: “Implementation of the federal judiciary’s Case Management and Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) system continues in appellate, district and bankruptcy courts across the country. The new system provides courts with the option to have case file documents in electronic form, and to accept filings over the Internet. Details.
Data on the classification of government documents, compiled by the National Records and Archives Administration’s Information Security Oversight Office, is available in the 2004 Report to the President: “This report provides information on the status of the security classification program as required by Executive Order 12958, as amended, “Classified National Security Information. It includes statistics …
Searches and Seizures in a Digital World, by Orin S. Kerr, forthcoming in Harvard Law Review, Vol. 119, 2006. “This article offers a normative framework for applying the Fourth Amendment to searches of computer data. It begins by exploring the basic differences between physical searches of physical property and electronic searches of digital evidence. It …
A follow-up to my previous posting, Federal Gov’t Wants To Mine College and University Student Data, is this recently released report: Feasibility of a Student Unit Record System Within the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (168 pages, PDF) “This report describes the feasibility of collecting individual enrollment and financial aid information for each student in …
Press release: New Study Shows Limited Use of Electronic Medical Records: “Less than a third of the nation’s hospital emergency and outpatient departments use electronic medical records, and even fewer doctors offices do, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…The use of electronic records in health care …
This Washington Post (reg. req’d) article reviews how individuals are using fee-based services that digitize their personal medical records as a way to manage uniform access to them in the event of medical emergencies and to facilitate the process of diagnostic evaluations. This may forecast a near term future of non-standard applications that fill the …
140 Kaiser patients’ private data put online: “In a troubling episode involving medical privacy in the digital age, Kaiser Permanente is notifying 140 patients that a disgruntled former employee posted confidential information about them on her Weblog.”
“The Federal Trade Commission testified…before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs about the reach of existing federal laws that require certain information providers to safeguard sensitive information and to ensure that the information doesnt fall into the wrong hands. The Senate Banking Committee is examining recent developments involving the security of …
