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From the FCC, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau Domain Name Data Entry (For Wireless Providers Only): “The purpose of the domain name registry is to protect cellular and other commercial mobile service (CMRS) wireless consumers from unwanted commercial electronic mail messages, by identifying, for those who send commercial electronic mail messages, Internet domain names uses …
“This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) paper, prepared at the request of the Ranking Member of the House Select Committee on Homeland Security, examines the role of the private sector in responding to the threat of terrorism in the United States since September 11. In keeping with CBO’s mandate to provide objective, impartial analysis, the paper …
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit ruled in favor of VoIP companies and against state regulation of their services in Minnesota. Related reference from November 09, 2004: FCC Declares VoIP Service Not Subject to State Regulation.
According to the Boston Globe, the CIA is invoking the Glomar response to forestall responding to FOIA requests submitted by advocacy groups for documents and photos related to detainee abuse. the “CIA . . . asserts that it is not able to confirm or deny whether it has any records relating to its purported involvement …
As a followup to my December 22 posting, Human Rights Group Submits FOIA Request for Docs. on Detainees, this Washington Post (reg. req’d) editorial from December 23, War Crimes.
Press release: “Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Susan Collins, R-Me., and Ranking Member Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., released Wednesday a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report showing that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and other federal agencies have made progress in implementing key provisions of the E-Government Act of 2002 but have failed to carry out …
Press release: “In New York, on December 21, 2004, the Center for Constitutional Rights submitted a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) seeking all records held by the U.S. Departments of Defense, Justice and State, and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with respect to the treatment of all detainees being held in U.S. …
Reuters reports that advocacy groups have prevailed in their effort to force the government to release documents pertaining to the CIA investigation of prisoner abuse.
From the National Security Archive: “Today, President Bush signed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorist Prevention Act, establishing the position of Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and ending the 57-year reign of the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) as the nation’s chief intelligence officer. Throughout those 57 years, similar reorganization proposals have emerged from inside and …
Press release: FTC Issues Final Rule Defining What Constitutes a “Commercial Electronic Mail Message” “The Federal Trade Commission today issued final regulations (81 pages, PDF) to facilitate the determination of whether an e-mail message has a commercial primary purpose and is subject to the provisions of the CAN-SPAM Act. The CAN-SPAM Act, which took effect …
Press release – FDIC Issues Study on Identity Theft and Seeks Comments on Possible Guidance to Bankers: “Fraudsters are taking advantage of the reliance on single-factor authentication for remote access to online banking, and the lack of e-mail and Web site authentication, to perpetrate account hijacking.” Putting an End to Account-Hijacking Identity Theft (41 pages, …
The American Customer Satisfaction Index Scores for U.S. Federal Government, December 14, 2004 ranked the National Library of Medicine’s MedLine Plus as the top Information/News website in a field that included the DOJ, National Archives, the Dept. of State, the CDC and the GSA. Related news: Agencies reach all-time high in customer satisfaction
