Thanks to Paige, who alerted me to this article with details about Microsoft’s FlexWiki, a free, “experimental collaboration tool, based on WikiWiki. See also SourceForge.net’s Project: FlexWiki: Summary, and Enter the World of the “Wiki” Continue Reading
Accurate, Focused Research on Law, Technology and Knowledge Discovery Since 2002
Monthly Archives: September 2004
Hearing on ID Theft Addresses Protection of Social Security Numbers
Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission on Identity Theft and Social Security Numbers, Before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, September 28, 2004. Accompanying FTC press release See also the Fair Credit Reporting Act and previous postings here and here on security issues associated… Continue Reading
RocketNews Adds RSS Feeds
From WebProNews, via Search Engine Guide, this update that RocketInfo, a terrific news portal, has added a feature allowing users to create RSS feeds for specific searches. How to generate an RSS feed on RocketInfo: 1) create and run a search; 2) On the upper right hand corner of the Search Results page, you will… Continue Reading
New Study Indicates Decline in Federal Enforcement of Pollution Laws
From Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), “a data gathering, data research and data distribution organization associated with Syracuse University, this new bulletin: Federal Pollution Enforcement Declines: Details by Statute. Continue Reading
New Draft Legislation Expands on Patriot Act
The 9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act (PDF, 335 pages), introduced by House Speaker Hastert on September 24, 2004. Hastert Statement on 9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act Related documents – EFF press release, Draft “PATRIOT II” Legislation Goes Too Far and Brookings Briefing- Intelligence Reform in the Wake of the 9/11 Commission Report (PDF, 50 pages) Continue Reading
Surveys Rank Best E-Gov Portals From Among U.S. Cities
Best City and County Government Web Sites Named: “The nation’s most innovative and robust city and county government Web sites have been named by the Center for Digital Government in its 2004 Best of the Web contest…Capturing first place in the city portal category is Fort Collins, Colo.” Brown University’s state/federal e-gov rankings: “Denver wins… Continue Reading
Significant Challenges Persist in Integrating Homeland Security IT Infrastructure
Department of Homeland Security: Formidable Information and Technology Management Challenge Requires Institutional Approach, GAO-04-702, August 27, 2004. Highlights (PDF). Continue Reading
Greater Role for Gov’t Data Mining Tools
This article today from Government Computer News, lists, along with some descriptive information, five data mining applications currently used by federal government agencies. The article also includes an interesting narrative of how homeland security is using data mining for threat assessment analysis. Continue Reading
NY Times Magazine Offers Perspective on Bloggers Impact in Political Arena
September 26, 2004, Fear and Laptops on the Campaign Trail: Insights into the expanding profile of bloggers whose views are changing the reading habits of many readers by allowing them highly interconnected online channels through which they can satisfy their interest in political campaign facts, rumors, and commentary. Related article published on LLRX.com, September 20… Continue Reading
Survey Says Viewers of Daily Show More In Tune With Election Issues
September 21, 2004 survey from the National Annenberg Election Survey 2004: Daily Show Viewers Knowledgeable About Presidential Campaign – “Viewers of late-night comedy programs, especially The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central, are more likely to know the issue positions and backgrounds of presidential candidates than people who do not watch late-night comedy.” Continue Reading
2004 Global Information Security Survey
The State of Information Security, 2004, A Worldwide Study Conducted by CIO Magazine and PricewaterhouseCoopers (Executive Summary). Related article, Six Secrets of Highly Secure Organizations Continue Reading
Government and Industry Testimony to House Cmte. Hearing on Preventing ID Theft
FTC press release, FTC Continues Education, Enforcement Efforts to Promote Information Security, and Commissioner Swindle’s prepared statement (PDF, 17 pages) before the House Committee on Government Reform hearing, Identity Theft: The Cause, Costs, Consequences, and Potential Solutions?, September 22, 2004. Links to opening statement and testimony by other government officials and industry representatives. Continue Reading
