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Press release, October 16, 2007: “Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Ranking Member Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) today introduced the bipartisan Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act of 2007 to give federal prosecutors important new tools to combat the growing problem of identity theft and cyber crime. The Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act …
Press release: “Three telecommunications companies have provided responses to inquiries by the Committee on Energy and Commerce about their involvement with the National Security Agency warrantless wiretapping program. On October 2, Rep. John D. Dingell (D-MI), Chairman of the Committee, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, and Rep. …
Press release: “The Federal Trade Commission today reiterated that despite the claims made in e-mails circulating on the Internet, consumers should not be concerned that their cell phone numbers will be released to telemarketers in the near future, and that it is not necessary to register cell phone numbers on the National Do Not Call …
Press release: “With a full twelve months under our belt, today OpenDNS published the first-ever PhishTank annual report. The report looks at the more than 300,000 phishes youve submitted and helped verify over the course of one year. While some of the reports findings come as no surprise (e.g., PayPal and eBay round out the …
Follow up to October 9, 2007 posting, Conyers, Reyes Introduce FISA Revision Legislation, today’s press release: “The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence voted 12-7 today to send the RESTORE Act (H.R. 3773) to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives for consideration.”
Press release: “Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) introduced The Responsible Electronic Surveillance that is Overseen, Reviewed, and Effective Act of 2007 the RESTORE Act,in an effort to address concerns about civil liberty protections in the hastily-enacted Protect America Act that was signed into …
Press release: “Today the National Security Archive publishes a collection [links to 41 documents accompany this release] of documents concerning U.S. policy with regard to acknowledging the “fact of” U.S. satellite reconnaissance operations particularly satellite photoreconnaissance. It was 29 years ago today that President Jimmy Carter, in a speech at the Kennedy Space Center, …
Government Technology: “Chicago’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC) will implement an advanced citywide intelligent security system as part of Chicago’s Operation Virtual Shield, a project that encompasses one of the world’s largest video security deployments.”
9/27/2007 Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, An Examination of the Google-DoubleClick Merger and the Online Advertising Industry: What Are the Risks for Competition and Privacy? Link to hearing witness statements Related postings on Google-DoubleClick Merger Hahn, Robert W. and Singer, Hal J., An Antitrust Analysis of Google’s Proposed Acquisition …
EFF: “Today, Judge Ann Aiken of the Oregon Federal District Court ruled that two provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), “50 U.S.C. §§ 1804 and 1823, as amended by the Patriot Act, are unconstitutional because they violate the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution.”
Jane Horvath, Senior Privacy Counsel at Google, has posted links to two YouTube videos providing users with details about privacy practices and personalizing your search.
2007-P-00038 Decision Needed on Regulating the Cooling Lagoons at the North Anna Power Station [Report PDF – 11 pages] [At a Glance PDF] September 20, 2007 2007-P-00037 Progress Made in Improving Use of Federal Supply Schedule Orders, but More Action Needed [Report PDF – 16 pages] [At a Glance PDF] September 20, 2007 2007-P-00036 Total …
