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Officials: Web Site Makes It Easy To Report Government Fraud, Waste – People Can Use Fraudnet To Register Concerns “The purpose of the Government Accountability Office’s FraudNET is to facilitate the reporting of allegations of fraud, waste, abuse, or mismanagement of federal funds.”
Health Industry Under Pressure to Computerize: “The federal government has delivered a warning to the health care industry: move into the computer age or the government will probably impose a solution.” Related resources: Panel: Cultural Shift Needed to Make Health Data Valuable Better medicine without paper
From Mobile PC Magazine, The Top 100 Gadgets of All Time. You will be surprised at how many of these gadgets you may have owned over your lifetime, as well as the evolution in the technical sophistication represented in current items in the various categories.
From the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse: The ChoicePoint Data Security Breach: What It Means for You, and How to Find Out What ChoicePoint Knows about You Related resources: No Place to Hide, Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society by Robert O’Harrow See also these related beSpacific postings, Online Interview With Author of New Book …
From today’s Atlanta Journal Constitution, Checklist failed ChoicePoint: “Identity theft fallout may include litigation, access limits.” From the WSJ, via Detnews.com, ID fraud triggers scrutiny: Industry could face new rules following reported theft of personal data of up to 400,000 people. From AP, 38 AGs send open letter to ChoicePoint . See also the initial …
From GPO: “The Economic Report of the President is an annual report written by the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors. It overviews the nation’s economic progress using text and extensive data appendices. The Economic Report of the President is transmitted to Congress no later than ten days after the submission of the Budget …
As a follow-up to postings on the extensive ID theft that took place last fall but was only widely reported this week, EPIC today sent a letter which includes additional information on the case. The letter includes the information that the criminal ID theft group that obtained personal data records on an as yet undetermined …
The New York Times sort of catches the wave on the increasingly popular new grass roots broadcasting format, in this article, Tired of TiVo? Beyond Blogs? Podcasts Are Here. Created by tech pioneers Adam Curry and Dave Winer, podcasting offers “amateurs” a means by which they can create and disseminate information on issues great and …
From the press release, Office of the Illinois Attorney General, February 16, 2005: “Joined by several other state Attorneys General, Attorney General Lisa Madigan has written to a Georgia company that collects vast amounts of personal and financial data urging that the company immediately notify any Illinoisans whose information may have been breached following the …
There have been a number of articles in recent months on privacy issues associated with search engine queries. This one, Is It Too Easy To Find People On Google? from Investor.com offers a quick review of how data from public sources is aggregated and returned in search results via services from Google, Yahoo and MapQuest.
From the press release: U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)…called for a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on legislation that she sponsored which would require businesses or government agencies to notify individuals if a database has been broken into and personal data has been compromised, including Social Security numbers, driver’s licenses and credit cards. This follows two …
From the New York Times press release today: “Our core purpose is to enhance society by creating, collecting and disseminating high-quality news, information and entertainment. We do this at all of our properties and the same is true of About. Ranking in the top 15 most frequently visited sites, About.com is one of the Web’s …