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Balancing Scientific Publication and National Security Concerns: Issues for Congress, by Dana A. Shea, updated February 2, 2004 Sensitive But Unclassified and Other Federal Security Controls on Scientific and Technical Information: History and Current Controversy, by Genevieve J. Knezo, udpated February 20, 2004
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FTC Working to Protect Consumers and Businesses from Information Security Breaches Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On Protecting Our Nation’s Cyberspace, Presented by Commissioner Orson Swindle Before the Subcommittee On Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Census of the Committee On Government Reform, United States House of Representatives (April 21, 2004). FTC …
From the Canadian Library Association, an announcement that this is Information Rights Week, whose theme this year is “You Have the Right to Remain Private.” Also provided are links to resource materials on privacy rights and legislation. [Barbara Fullerton]
As reported in today’s Oakland Tribune (this article will be available free for 14 days after publication), executives of e-voting machine manufacturer Diebold admitted to, and apologized for, security flaws in products sold to the state of California that resulted in the disenfranchisement of voters in the March 2 election. See also the Open Voting …
An update to my April 13 posting, CA Senator Plans Bill on Gmail and Privacy, as follows: April 21, Senator Liz Figueroa Introduces Bill to Stop Google from Secretly “Oogling” Private E-Mails, and a link to SB 1822, which contains her amendments relevant to this issue.
Huge Surge In Phishing Scams As Fraudsters Seek Financial Gain This link on Antiphishing.org: “Earthlink ToolbarFeaturing ScamBlocker EarthLink ScamBlocker is part of a free browser toolbar that alerts you before you visit a page that’s on Earthlink’s list of known fraudulent phisher Web sites. Its free to all Internet users.” [Download]
Libraries Wired, and Reborn. See also this article from The Guardian (UK), on the latest e-book technology innovations from Sony, and this one from the New York Times.
From FCW.com, “Officials at the General Services Administration are building a system to check the identities of users doing business with agencies online, and they plan to rely on outside organizations to generate users’ digital credentials.”
From the Campaign for Verifiable Voting in Maryland: “A cross-partisan group of registered Maryland voters announced today they will be filing a lawsuit against the Maryland State Board of Elections and its Administrator, charging that the new Diebold AccuVote-TS electronic voting machines recently purchased by Maryland fail to comply with both state and federal law. …
Domestic Intelligence and Civil Liberties, by Kate Martin (Director, Center for National Security Studies), SAIS Review, Winter-Spring 2004. [Secrecy News] “The 9.11 Commission hearings have highlighted intelligence failures by the FBI and CIA before September 11. On April 13, 2004, Attorney General Ashcroft told the Commission that the “wall” between law enforcement and intelligence was …
MEPs take on EU and US over air data deal: “The European Parliament has by 16 votes, 276 in favour, 260 against, agreed to take a privacy rights battle over handovers of air passenger data to US security agencies to the EU courts.”