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Inside Higher Education: A Stand Against Wikipedia: “As Wikipedia has become more and more popular with students, some professors have become increasingly concerned about the online, reader-produced encyclopedia. While plenty of professors have complained about the lack of accuracy or completeness of entries, and some have from using it, the history department at Middlebury College …
Department of Defense’s Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics – Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Critical Homeland Security Infrastructure Protection (45 pages, PDF).
Best Practices Suggestions Document: “Building upon the Definitions and Risk Model documents, the Best Practices document aims to expand past defining what behaviors and consent factors will currently make software potentially unwanted and to focus upon making the marketplace better. This document highlights the sorts of technological behaviors that limit the negative impact of potentially …
Follow-up Review of the Critical Incident Response Plans of the United States Attorneys’ Offices, Evaluation and Inspections Report I-2007-001, January 2007 (Full Report, 87 pages, PDF), issued January 26, 2007.
Text of the Commission Report, released January 26, 2007: Enforcement Activities of the Federal Trade Commission Under the Truth In Lending Act, the Consumer Leasing Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, and the Electronic Fund Transfer Act During 2006
Follow up to November 20, 2006 posting, DHS Privacy Office Annual Report to Congress Released After One Year Delay [EPIC posted the report] – note that this report has now been posted to the DHS Privacy Office website: Annual Privacy Report to Congress, July 2004 to July 2006 (PDF, 38 pages).
Federal Chief Information Officer Council Strategic Plan FY 2007-2009 (28 pages, PDF), January 17, 2007. “The CIO Council works to improve agency practices related to the acquisition, modernization, use, sharing, and performance of Federal government information resources.”
Department of Defense Inspector General’s Report No. D-2007-051 on the “2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission’s Report Recommendation #193 Regarding Cecil Field, Florida”, released January 25, 2007.
Public Policy Institute of California Statewide Survey: Californians and Their Government, January 2007. This is the 74th PPIC Statewide Survey and the 21st in the Californians and Their Government series. It is made possible with funding from The James Irvine Foundation. [40 pages, PDF]
“The State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation (STATE) System is an electronic data warehouse containing up-to-date and historical state-level data on tobacco use prevention and control. The STATE System is designed to integrate many data sources to provide comprehensive summary data and facilitate research and consistent data interpretation. The STATE System was developed by the …
Press release: “Starting today, YouTube video results will appear in the Google Video search index: when users click on YouTube thumbnails, they will be taken to YouTube.com to experience the videos. Over time, Google Video will become even more comprehensive as it evolves into a service where users can search for the world’s online video …
“The Federal Trade Commission, which enforces the federal antitrust laws and is also the federal consumer protection enforcement agency, will host a conference in Washington, DC, on April 10-12, 2007, to explore a range of energy issues of importance to American consumers and to the United States and world markets. The three-day conference, which is …