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Press release: “Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox today announced that investors are now able to search the contents of the disclosure documents filed electronically with the SEC using a new full-text search tool on the Commission’s website. The newly searchable information includes registration statements, annual and quarterly reports, and other filings by companies …
Follow-up to previous postings related to the DOJ’s subpoena early this year, to obtain Google search data, news via Seth Finkelstein, posted copies of the following reports (PDF) released today: Main Report of Philip B. Stark, Ph.D, 8 May 2006, Redacted, ACLU v. Gonzales, Civ. Action No. 98-5591 Supplement: Rebuttal Expert Report and rule 26(e) …
“This page contains links to reports, working papers and speeches on the state of the 50+ population of the United States, as well as links to relevant governmental and non-governmental organization websites.”
Press release: “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began a pilot program today that will collect biometric information from illegal migrants interdicted while attempting entry into U.S. territory through the body of water between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico known as the Mona Passage. The U.S. Coast Guard will compare the digital fingerprints …
Historical Federal Courthouses: “Information and photographs of nearly 600 historic buildings used as federal courthouses, arranged by state, can now be found online.”
President’s Bush’s Trip to Asia (Singapore and Indonesia) and APEC (Hanoi, Vietnam): Includes selected Links, U.S. Government Official Statements, Briefings, Press Releases, Fact Sheets, and Reports.
Follow up to October 20, 2006 posting, National Community Reinvestment Coalition Files FTC Complaint Against Zillow.com, see Anita Ramasastry’s article, Do Zillow.com’s Web Property Estimates Violate Federal Consumer Laws? Why the Site Is Wise To Add Disclaimers to Its Home Valuations
Press release: “A U.S. district court has shut down an operation that secretly downloaded multiple malevolent software programs, including spyware, onto millions of computers without consumers consent, degrading their computers’ performance, spying on them, and exposing them to a barrage of disruptive advertisements. The Federal Trade Commission has asked the court to order a permanent …
Global War On Terrorism: Fiscal Year 2006 Obligation Rates Are Within Funding Levels and Significant Multiyear Procurement Funds Will Likely Remain Available for Use in Fiscal Year 2007, GAO-07-76, and Highlights, November 13, 2006. “As of June 2006, which represents 9 months (75 percent) of fiscal year 2006, the military services have reported obligating about …
Press release: “Today House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Ike Skelton (MO) will introduce legislation to improve the ability of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGR) to investigate and hold accountable the spending of billions of dollars in reconstruction funds. Ranking Member Skelton’s bill removes the arbitrary termination date of October 2007, as …
Press release, Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom John V. Hanford III: “…Today the Department of State transmitted to Congress the 2006 Designations of Countries of Particular Concern, or CPCs, for Severe Violations of Religious Freedom. Secretary Rice designated one new CPC, Uzbekistan, and re-designated seven countries which were on the CPC list last year: Burma, …
As Director of the Project on Government Secrecy, Steven Aftergood has let the light shine in on the otherwise secret world of “sensitive” government documents, much to the benefit of scholars, researchers, librarians, journalists and interested citizens. This profile of his work by Federal Computer Week is worth a read. Related news and postings: Washington …