GAO Report on Private Sector Use of Social Security Numbers
Social Security Numbers: Private Sector Entities Routinely Obtain and Use SSNs, and Laws Limit the Disclosure of This Information. GAO-04-11, January 22. Highlights.
Preparing for the Google IPO
From Wired Magazine, The Complete Guide to Googlemania!…the process leading up to the IPO, the impact on the company’s employees, and predictions of what will happen thereafter.
Baltimore County Circuit Court Law Library Catalog Now Online
The Baltimore County Circuit Court Law Library’s catalog is now available online at this link. [Stephanie Levasseur]
New GAO Report on Freedom of Information Act
Information Management: Update on Freedom of Information Act Implementation Status. GAO-04-257, February 18. Highlights.
The Web as a Tool for Campaign Attack Ads
“In Politics, the Web Is a Parallel World With Its Own Rules: A new bare-knuckled political use of the World Wide Web has showed its head: the Internet attack ad.”
Arizona Launches Corporate E-Filing
For-Profit Corporations Can File Annual Reports On-Line “All corporations doing business in or from Arizona must file an Annual Report with the Arizona Corporation Commission. In its ongoing effort to make the filing and updating process easier for corporations, the Commission is launching an on-line E-File feature. For-profit corporations will be the first group to …
Opening of Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun Papers at LC
From the Library of Congress press release: “The 362-page guide (finding aid, already posted online as referenced in this link) to the Blackmun papers will be available on the Librarys public Web site, www.loc.gov, at 12:01 a.m., Thursday, March 4. Other materials, including case files for eight major cases and videotapes and transcripts of interviews …
Google Image Search Expanded
“Google Image Search has been significantly updated,” says Sergey Brin, Google co-founder and president of Technology. “We’ve doubled the index to more than 880 million images, enhanced search quality, and improved the user interface.” Google Advanced Image Search
Online Directory of Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments, from the CIA (links to countries in alphabetial order)
Effective June 1, French Gov’t Will Post New Laws on The Web
From Stéphane Cottin in Paris, this link to a February 21 posting from ServiceDoc. Info on the publication and enactment of “an Ordinance on the value of the electronic proclamation of Acts and regulations….after June 1st 2004, French Law c[an] be enacted only with publication on [the] Internet.”
DHS Reports on JetBlue Privacy Controversy
Department of Homeland Security Privacy Office, Report to the Public on Surrounding the jetBlue Data Transfer, Findings and Recommendations, February 20, 2004: “Findings…(1) No Privacy Act Violation by TSA employees occurred connection with this incident….(5) The TSA employees involved acted without appropriate regard for individual privacy rights or the spirit of the Privacy Act of …
Black Box Voting: Ballot-Tampering in the 21st Century
This new book, by Bev Harris, may be purchased via this link, or downloaded, chapter by chapter, from the links as follows: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Appendix, …