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Press release from the Progress & Freedom Foundation: “Notification Doesn’t Benefit Consumers: State and Federal lawmakers should proceed with caution when considering notification legislation addressing the perceived growth of data security breaches, according to a new paper released by The Progress & Freedom Foundation. An Economic Analysis of Notification Requirements for Data Security Breaches (19 …
From the Washington Post (reg. req’d) Plame’s Identity Marked As Secret – Memo Central to Probe Of Leak Was Written By State Dept. Analyst: “A classified State Department memorandum central to a federal leak investigation contained information about CIA officer Valerie Plame in a paragraph marked “(S)” for secret, a clear indication that any Bush …
Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment: A Progress Report on Information Sharing for Homeland Security “Christopher Cox (R-CA) opened this morning’s Subcommittee hearing on information sharing for homeland security, what he called an indispensable part of this Committees oversight responsibilities. “We want to be reassured that DHS, in particular, has engaged its …
Senate Budget Committee: Health Information Technology: The Federal Role and Budget Implications Testimony of Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Mike Leavitt (12 pages, PDF)
All the articles listed are available in Part 1 of the July 2005 issue of LLRX.com: Delivering Actionable Information To Front-Line Lawyers – John Alber details the effective implementation of business intelligence (BI) systems within law firms. The Government Domain: Bloggin’ USA – Peggy Garvin looks at three free web services that leverage blogs and …
See the Campaign for the Supreme Court postings, which include key early responses to the nomination, as well as links to some of his opinions.
The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) outlines a framework for DHS to secure the use of personally identifiable information purchased from commercial services. CDT Recommended Policies for Use of Private Sector Data, July 18, 2005. (6 pages, PDF)
House Judiciary Committee, Democratic Dissenting Views – H.R. 3199, the “USA PATROIT and Terrorism Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2005” (70 pages, PDF) See also related Patriot Act postings
July 14, 2005 Text of Letter from Reps. Frank and Conyers to CRS’s American Law Division Requesting Opinion on the Impeachability of White House Staff.
From WSJ free content, Information Security – Where the Dangers Are: The threats to information security that keep the experts up at night — and what businesses and consumers can do to protect themselves. See also Corrupted PC’s Find New Home in the Dumpster
FBI says it has files on ACLU, Greenpeace, other rights groups Large Volume of F.B.I. Files Alarms U.S. Activist Groups: “The Federal Bureau of Investigation has collected at least 3,500 pages of internal documents in the last several years on a handful of civil rights and antiwar protest groups in what the groups charge is …
As a follow-up to my December 12, 2003 posting, E-ZPass Technology, Law Enforcement and Privacy, see this article, A Pass on Privacy, from the Sunday New York Times Magazine: “The computer system to which you have surrendered your payment information also records data about your movements and habits. It can be hacked into.” Read on.