Microsoft issued a download for Office 2003/XP to allow users to”permanently remove hidden data and collaboration data, such as change tracking and comments, from Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint files.” An important issue in itself, made even more relevant when considered alongside this article by Preston Gralla, published yesterday, about the creation of a purportedly “high-level [UK] intelligence dossier about Iraq” discovered to be “little more than a cut-and-paste job” constructed in Word.
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Daily Archives: February 9, 2004
Minnesota Supreme Court Cmte. Report on Public Access to Records
From this release: “The Minnesota Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Rules of Public Access to Records of the Judicial Branch will hold a hearing for public comment on its proposed changes to the rules on Thursday, February 12.” Preliminary Recommendations of the Minnesota Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Rules of Public Access to Records… Continue Reading
Potential Legal Challenges to Children’s Internet Protection Act
Potential legal challenges to the application of the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) in public libraries: Strategies and issues, by Paul T. Jaeger and Charles R. McClure “The legal issues that might be used to challenge the Courts decision include least restrictive alternative, vagueness, overbreadth, request policies, prior restraints, public forum, and limitations on political… Continue Reading
Search Engines Provide Access to Wealth of Personal Data
An article in today’s Washington Post focuses on the growing volume of sensitive personal data, aggregated on commercial, corporate, academic and government websites, that is accessible via search engines. Mistakes that result from inexpert programming, server vulnerabilities and configuration related issues facilitate the compromise of personal data, the results of which are chronicled with growing… Continue Reading
Enhancements to Online Legal Periodicals Database
From site manager John Doyle: Washington & Lee’s Most-Cited Legal Periodicals: U.S. and selected non-U.S. “has been enhanced with the addition of an article submissions process. This allows authors to sort the journal list in citation-rank order, to select down to a (hopefully) limited list of journals to submit an article to, and then to… Continue Reading
Selected Docs. Posted From Collection Provided by Paul O’Neill
Ron Suskind, has posted 175 pages of source documents cited in The Price of Loyalty, his recent book on the Bush administration. The documents were provided to him by former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill. A February 7 Washington Post article stated in reference to the controversy concerning O’Neill’s receipt of these documents, “The department said… Continue Reading
Awards For Top 5 E-Gov Websites
At E-Gov’s Web-Enabled Government Conference on February 5, the Excellence.gov “Top 5” award winnners were announced as: Small Business Administration’s BusinessLaw.gov Securities and Exchange Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (Edgar) Department of Health and Human Services, National Practitioner Data Bank Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency Department of Defense, Defense Information… Continue Reading
Study On Election Reform
Primary Education: Election Reform and the 2004 Presidential Race, by electionline.org and The Century Foundation (48 pages, pdf) “Millions of American will return to the polls in the coming weeks to cast ballots in the 2004 primaries. This is the first presidential contest since the 2000 election, which exposed flaws in America’s voting process, and… Continue Reading
Reviews of FY2005 Federal Budget
From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities a fact sheet and a new report, Analysis of the President’s New Budget. “Between 2000 and 2004, the budget declined by an amount equal to 6.6 percent of GDP, from a surplus of 2.4 percent of GDP to a deficit of 4.2 percent of GDP. This was… Continue Reading
