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This December 30 letter from the William T. Woods, GAO’s Director of Acqusitions and Sourcing Management, to the Director, Office of Management and Budget, is titled Reliability of Federal Procurement Database. According to a GAO investigation, the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) is “inaccurate and incomplete,” and there are “sufficient problems to warrant concern about …
Cities in revolt over Patriot Act Community Resolutions Condemning the Patriot Act
The Fantasy and Reality of 2004: One dozen experts in the privacy and technology arena comment on their hopes and expectations for this coming year.
Intelligence Identities Protection Act by Elizabeth B. Bazan, Legislative Attorney, American Law Division, CRS, October 3, 2003. (via Secrecy News) Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 (50 U.S.C. 421 et seq.)
Sharp decline in music file swapping: Data memo from PIP and comScore Media Metrix, January 4, 2004 (link to full-text of the memo including graphics, in pdf). From the data memo: “The percentage of online Americans downloading music files on the Internet has dropped by half and the numbers who are downloading files on any …
The Many Facets of Managing Electronic Resources. The author discusses “back-end management tools for library staff,” and “front-end management” products and applications to facilitate effective delivery of services to users.
On December 30, I posted on Gov’t Warning Issued About Terrorists and Almanacs. As a follow-up, see In Defense of Almanacs and Almanac carries lot of weight in warning – FBI’s recent alert has editor bemused: In both the articles noted above Kevin Seabrooke, a senior editor for The World Almanac and Book of Facts, …
Companies Alter Privacy Policies: “As online marketing matures, many companies are finding privacy policies that once seemed acceptable as constricting as clothing that has been outgrown and, like a too-tight suit, must be altered.”
As I previously posted December 9, hundreds of cities and localities around the country are turning to the web to auction unclaimed property using eBay. The New York Times reported on January 4 that New York City has chosen to auction a vast array of items from its property rooms using an online auction site …
The BlogBook is a “guide to legal blogging” that hosts an ongoing discussion of style, ethics and technical issues associated with blawgs, launched late November 2003. The site’s design resembles that of the Bluebook, A Uniform System of Citation, and its three authors are attorneys who are also writers and marketing experts. An article about …
SYMANTEC CORP. – On the record: This extensive and interesting interview with Symantec Corp’s CEO John Thompson, whose company is well known for enterprise wide and home PC web security applications such as Norton Anti-Virus, discusses the politics of IT infrastructure security issues (he is a member of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council), cybercrime, ID …
QUESTIONS FOR TOM KEAN – Want to Know a Secret? See also my other postings on the work of and major challenges encountered by the 9/11 Commission to meet the May 2004 deadline for issuing their report.