Rep. Adam Putnam, (R-Fla.) in conjunction with the House Government Reform Committee’s Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census, issued a comparison chart, using an A through F grading scheme, to evaluate government agency information security in 2002 and 2003. It should be noted that the governmentwide average rose from an F to a D this past year. Feel more secure now! See this Federal Computer Week article for more details as well as to review a copy of the chart.
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Daily Archives: December 10, 2003
New ID Task Force for California County
The San Diego County Californa Board of Supervisors will institute an ID Theft Task Force in cooperation with the DA and law enforcement as a means to combat the second highest rate of ID theft in the state. [Link] Continue Reading
New Microsoft Patent for Writing Windows Apps Using HTML
TechDirt posted on a patent awarded by the USPTO to Microsoft yesterday for a “Method and apparatus for writing a windows application in HTML.” See also Microsoft wins HTML application patent Continue Reading
Credit Industry and Workplace Procedures to Prevent ID Theft
From the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse: Testimony on December 9 by Beth Givens to the San Diego County Chairman’s Conference on Identity Theft–Prevent Identity Theft with Responsible Information-Handling Practices in the Workplace. “The keys to prevention are two-fold, involving the credit industry and the workplace: The credit issuing industry must drastically improve procedures for assessing the… Continue Reading
Are Paralegal Work and Legal Research Next to Go Offshore?
Information Week reported yesterday that law firms are actively considering sending white collar jobs offshore, where paralegal salaries are between $6 and $8 per hour, while the average in the U.S. is over $17. The statistics for this article were obtained from a research report sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2003, titled… Continue Reading
