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CIA Director Porter J. Goss statement on CIA Office of the Inspector General Report, “CIA Accountability with Respect to the 9/11 Attacks”. “I will not convene an accountability board to judge the performances of any individual CIA officers.” Related links: Washington Post (reg. req’d): CIA Director Won’t Punish Officers For 9/11 Failures New York Times …
FTC press release: “The Federal Trade Commission today told the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Trade, Tourism, and Economic Development that spyware and other “malware” that is downloaded to consumers’ computers without their consent can cause problems ranging from sluggish computer performance to loss of sensitive personal data. Chairman Deborah Platt …
Another project from Justia.com: “The Coalition seeks to bring together resources from all parts of the legal community (law school faculty, students, and practicing lawyers), as well as non-lawyers, to facilitate the fair distribution of federal, state, and private disaster relief to New Orleanians (wherever they may be) in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. We …
From Tim Stanley and his terrific team at Justia.com, this news: “we just put up a new free U.S. Supreme Court site and full decisions database (Volumes 1 – 545+) with oyez.org and uscourtforms.com. The url for the initial beta version is http://www.justia.us…we have links to real audio and canned searches into google, msn and …
Follow-up to my September 29, 2005 posting, Broad Coalition Pushes to Lift Gag Order Against Librarian, AP reports that yesterday the ACLU filed an appeal with the Supreme Court, the text of which is censored, to release an anonymous Connecticut librarian from a gag order concerning an FBI investigation into his/her organization’s patron records. ALA …
Department of Homeland Security Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee Draft Framework for Privacy Analysis of Programs, Technologies, and Applications, (draft, 9/2/05)
How to foil a Phish, by Sarah D. Scalet, documents the creation and implementation of a successful anti-phishing response plan by an anonymous financial institution. This case study provides a range of scenarios that confront banks dealing with a bombardment of email attacks, and offers practical resources and solutions. Related references: Data Scandal – Do …
Federal Register, October 3, 2005: Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies. Copyright Office, Library of Congress. Notice of inquiry. “The Copyright Office of the Library of Congress is preparing to conduct proceedings in accordance with section 1201(a)(1) of the Copyright Act, which was added by the Digital Millennium …
From the U.S. Conference of Mayors: “Two new web sites and relief funds have been created to help raise donations for the recovery effort in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast area: “New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has established the “The Bring New Orleans Back Fund” which “is the only non-profit fund exclusively dedicated to …
Press release: “EarthLink…today announced that it has been selected by Wireless Philadelphia to develop and implement the nation’s largest municipal Wi-Fi broadband network. Wireless Philadelphia expands the City of Philadelphia’s leadership position of using wireless technology to meet the needs of its residents and also enhance the City’s progressive visitor, tourism and business environment.” See …
Google press release: “Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Google Inc. today announced an agreement to promote and distribute their software technologies to millions of users around the world. The agreement aims to make it easier for users to freely obtain Sun’s Java Runtime Environment (JRE), the Google Toolbar and the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite, helping millions …
HP Survey Shows Executives Unaware that Improper IT Disposal Can Lead to Fines, Imprisonment Old computers increasingly find new life HP Environment: Product Return and Recycling – this site includes a global online ordering tool to request recycling services.. [“HP’s computer hardware recycling service is a simple and environmentally sound take-back program that offers consumers …