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Press release: “During the next ten years the world faces a 29 percent chance of a nuclear attack and the prospect of four new nations being added to the nuclear weapons club, according to a new survey of non-proliferation and national security experts compile by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Dick Lugar. Over the same …
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From CNN Money, ID data breaches: as rampant as it seems documents the circumstances of the most recently reported incident of hacking, called skimming, that involved the illegal acquisition and storage of credit card data, the exact impact of which still has been not fully disclosed apparently due to the ongoing investigation. Related references: Personal …
OCLC Data Mining Projects: “…Internet giants such as Amazon and Google provide valuable lessons on the importance of squeezing the full value from available data. Whether in the form of book recommendations, search result rankings, targeted advertising, or collection views (e.g., Google Scholar), the “Amazoogle” companies make a concerted effort to release as much value …
AP reports that the TSA continued to purchase and aggregate air passenger data despite specific direction from Congress not to do so. See also: March 28, 2005 GAO report, Secure Flight Development and Testing Underway, But Risks Should be Managed as System is Futher Developed Transportation Security Administration Notices: Privacy Act, System of Records, 05-12405 …
Press release, Tuesday, June 21, 2005 — “At the first congressional hearing on the Development Fund for Iraq, Rep. Waxman releases a report on the U.S. mismangement of Iraqi funds. The report details the billions in cash transferred from the Federal Reserve Bank to U.S. officials in Iraq, the lack of financial controls in Iraq, …
Press release: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 – “Rep. Waxman, Democratic Leader Pelosi, and other senior Democrats announced they will introduce legislation to establish an independent Comission to investigate abuses of detainees in connection with Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, or any operation within the Global War on Terrorism.” Bill Summary The Bill, To establish …
Press release: “The American Civil Liberties Union released a report today examining government policies and practices that have hampered academic freedom and scientific inquiry since September 11, 2001.” Science Under Siege: The Bush Administration’s Assault on Academic Freedom and Scientific Inquiry (42 pages, PDF) Science Under Siege Executive Summary (PDF) Related references: Leading Scientists Issue …
Press release today: “Mamma.com Inc….today announced the beta release of its innovative Health Search… [the] technology does more than aggregate results from various content providers [WebMD, MedLine Plus, HealthAtoZ, MayClinic.com, MedicineNet.com, NHSDirect Online] for medical information; we crawl deep into the websites of certain handpicked, trusted, medical websites to extract and format results in a …
Mart, Susan Nevelow, Let the People Know the Facts: Can Government Information Removed from the Internet be Reclaimed? (June 1, 2005). “This article examines the legal bases of the public’s right to access government information, and examines and analyzes the types of information that have recently been removed from the Internet and the rationales given …
Reports Encompassing More Than One DOJ Component – The Department of Justice’s Terrorism Task Forces, Evaluation & Inspections Division, Report I-2005-007, June 2005 (353 pages, PDF)
From today’s New York Times, Libraries Say Yes, Officials Do Quiz Them About Users reports on a study, not yet released by the American Library Association (ALA), that documents law enforcement inquiries for information on library patrons’ reading materials. The article indicates that there have been “at least 200 formal and informal inquiries to libraries… …