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Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing, Protecting Children on the Internet, July 24, 2007. Links to witness statements “As the Senate Commerce Committee debates how best to protect children on the Internet, lawmakers must take special care to avoid overly simple solutions that would do more harm than good. In its zeal to …
Compact of Free Association: Implementation Activities Have Progressed, but the Marshall Islands Faces Challenges to Achieving Long-Term Compact Goals, GAO-07-1115T, July 24, 2007 Defense Acquisitions: Realistic Business Cases Needed to Execute Navy Shipbuilding Programs, GAO-07-943T, July 24, 2007 Federal Farm Programs: USDA Needs to Strengthen Management Controls to Prevent Improper Payments to Estates and Deceased …
Press release: “Expanding on its ongoing work to help protect customer privacy, Microsoft Corp. today announced an enhanced set of privacy principles for Live Search and online advertising data collection, use and protection. The principles outline new, enhanced steps to help protect the privacy of Microsoft® Windows Live users, including making search query data anonymous …
World Privacy Forum: State Security Freeze Laws and General Information, July 22, 2007: “A credit freeze (sometimes called a security freeze) lets you stop the disclosure of your credit report by a credit bureau. If you live in a state with a security freeze law, then you may be able to place a security freeze …
World Privacy Forum’s Top Ten Opt Outs, July 22, 2007: “This list is a distillation of ideas for opting out that the World Privacy Forum has developed over the years from responding to those questions. The list below does not contain all opt outs that are available. Rather, it contains the opt outs that we …
Press release: “Personal information of certain uniformed service members, family members and others was placed at risk for potential compromise while being processed by SAIC under several health care data contracts for military service customers, the company said today. SAIC remedied the security lapses upon learning of them and began working with the customers to …
AP: “CityWatcher.com, a provider of surveillance equipment, attracted little notice itself – until a year ago, when two of its employees had glass-encapsulated microchips with miniature antennas embedded in their forearms. The “chipping” of two workers with RFIDs – radio frequency identification tags as long as two grains of rice, as thick as a toothpick …
Press release: “Ask.com(R), a leading search engine and wholly-owned business of IAC, today announced it will soon be implementing a new product called AskEraser that will offer its searchers unmatched control over their privacy when searching for information on the Web. With AskEraser, people can ensure that their search history will not be retained by …
Press release, July 19, 2007: “The Department of Justice today submitted to Congress new proposed legislation that seeks to update and improve current laws aimed at protecting Americans from the increasingly sophisticated crime of identity theft. The proposed bill, titled the Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act of 2007, was a significant recommendation included in …
Follow up to previous postings on July 2, 2007, Social Security Number Protection Act of 2007, on July 18 the House Ways and Means Committee passed the Social Security Number Privacy and Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007. House Committee on Ways and Means press release: “During the course of the 16 hearings conducted by …
sfgate.com – ON THE RECORD: DEBORAH MAJORAS CHAIRWOMAN, FTC: “She shares her thoughts on what her agency can — and cannot — do on everything from mergers to fraud to privacy to gas prices to infomercials,” Sunday, July 15, 2007
Bill Moyers Journal, July 13, 2007: “Bill Moyers gets perspective on the role of impeachment in American political life from Constitutional scholar Bruce Fein, who wrote the first article of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, and THE NATION’s John Nichols, author of THE GENIUS OF IMPEACHMENT.” Related links: WATCH MOYERS ON IMPEACHMENT More on the …
