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Information Security: Internal Revenue Service Needs to Remedy Serious Weaknesses over Taxpayer and Bank Secrecy Act Data, GAO-05-482, April 15, 2005. Highlights. “…39 newly identified information security control weaknesses impair IRS’s ability to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of its sensitive financial and taxpayer data and FinCEN’s Bank Secrecy Act data. Related reference: Press …
The Multistate Anti-TeRrorism Information EXchange (MATRIX), “a pilot effort to increase and enhance the exchange of sensitive terrorism and other criminal activity information between local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies,” has been cancelled. From the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, this April 15, 2005 press release: MATRIX Pilot Project Concludes From the NewStandard: Controversial …
The Harris Poll® #27, April 13, 2005 – “Two-fifths of U.S. Adults Who Are Online Have Read Political Blogs – But less than one in 10 have ever posted a comment on a blog.”
Press release: “Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Representative Edward J. Markey announced that they would introduce the Safeguarding Americans from Exporting Identification Data (SAFE ID) Act in the United States Senate and House today, legislation that would protect the privacy of consumers’ most sensitive personal information. This legislation would close gaps in U.S. privacy laws …
As a follow-up to my March 16, 2005 posting, Controversy Surrounds Government Sponsored News, today the Senate Agrees on ID for Gov’t Video News
IRS Denies It’s Refusing to Release Papers…and in response, Federal Lawsuit Filed Today Against IRS Is Part of Broad Effort to Provide Information About Agency’s Audit Activities to the Public Background: Dangers Posed by IRS Secrecy Full Text of District Court Complaint (12 pages, PDF)
Blogs, Wikis, RSS: Walking the enterprise tightrope
From your lips to millions of ears via podcasting – Think of it as audio blogging — technology makes it easy to have your own radio show [thanks Connie] Related news: TVEyes Announces Podscope®, The First Engine to Search Within a Podcast
Has the sun set on FOIAs future?: “Kevin Goldberg, legal counsel for the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) said government efforts to prevent the public release of information is forcing many newspapers to go to court.” President Bush addressed the American Society of Newspaper Editors today. The full text of his remarks are available …
The current Yahoo! News site has been transformed with this beta that sports a more sophisticated and user-friendly design, layout, and navigation features, using well placed content tabs, as well as more prominent display and organization of sources and time stamp for respective topical news stories. RSS feeds and custom user queries are supported. See …
This April 11 article, North Dakota Legislature Agrees on ‘black boxes’ Bill discusses SB 2200, which provides consumer privacy protections related to recording devices on motor vehicles by stipulating procedures related to the collection and dissemination of data on vehicle location, speed, braking, seat belt status, and accident related information. Related news and references: North …
The San Jose Medical Group reported the theft, from their facility, of two Dell PCs to which confidential data on 185,000 patients had been copied from the organization’s servers.