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Council of Europe, June 7, 2006: Alleged secret detentions and unlawful inter-state transfers of detainees involving Council of Europe member states – draft Recommendation and Resolution Explanatory memorandum, by Mr Dick Marty, Rapporteur, June 7, 2007
Press release: “For 2006, the Judiciary reports to Congress that each of the nearly 200 federal courts have websites and the vast majority of those sites satisfy or exceed all of the currently applicable requirements of the E-Government Act of 2002. By statute, a report on court compliance with the Act must be submitted to …
2006 Trafficking in Persons Report – U.S. Department of State: “Human traffickers prey on the most vulnerable and turn a commercial profit at the expense of innocent lives. The State Department’s efforts to end this evil trade exemplify transformational diplomacy. We work with international partners to secure the freedom of those who are exploited and …
What Ashcroft Was Told, By Murray Waas, National Journal, June 8, 2006 “Then-Attorney General John Ashcroft continued to oversee the Valerie Plame-CIA leak probe for more than two months in late 2003 after he learned in extensive briefings that FBI agents suspected White House aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby of trying to …
Government Reform Committee Oversight Hearing, “Once More Into the Data Breach: The Security of Personal Information at Federal Agencies,” June 8, 2006. “The data loss at VA is the largest by a federal agency to date, and the latest in a long string of personal information breaches in the public and private sectors, including financial …
AP reported that JFK archvist Allan Goodrich announced a huge digitization project to be completed by the end of 2007, which would provide web access to “48 million pages of documents, 400,000 photos and 1,200 hours of video..” NARA press release: “Twenty-nine years after participating in the formal groundbreaking of the Kennedy Presidential Library and …
Indiana House House Bill 1101 (HB 1101) which takes effect July 1, will “require disclosure of security breaches and encryption of data by companies holding customers’ and clients’ personal identification information in computer databases if it could cause identity theft, identity deception, or fraud.” Press release from Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter, May 31, 2006: …
June 8, 2006: “The Internet Caucus Advisory Committee (ICAC) hosted a discussion focusing on the legislative proposals percolating in Congress on so-called Network Neutrality. No fewer than six House and Senate bills are circulating in Congress that in some way address this amorphous policy question.” [Link] “…the ICAC has requested of all its 200 member …
From NARA: For military veterans, or next of kin: “Use our system to create a customized order form to request information from your, or your relative’s, military personnel records.”
Follow-up to postings on DNA database privacy issues, this WSJ free feature today spotlights the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia project to create a database comprised of genetic profiles from up to 10,0000 patients.
NARA: “CIA Name Files and Subject Files compiled by the Central Intelligence Agency in response to the Disclosure Acts. These files are comprised of documentation from several CIA filing systems and are organized under the names of individuals and subjects. As of May 2006 this group consists of approximately 27,000 pages of files on individuals …
Follow-up to postings on breach of veterans data, this press release from Sen. Patrick Leahy comments on the announcement that “the Social Security numbers and other personal information for as many as 2.2 million U.S. military personnel including nearly 80 percent of our active-duty force — were among the data the VA has lost.” …