From the New York Times, this article details how the FBI’s $170 million “virtual case file” system, hobbled by numerous delays due to technical issues, may be scrapped.
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Daily Archives: January 14, 2005
Employers Soon to be Required to Shred Employee Documents
From USA Today: Identity theft, new law about to send shredding on a tear Related reference: Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA) Related resources: National Association for Information Destruction and Shop n’Shed Drop-off Shredding Locator (search for shredding services in your vicinity.) Continue Reading
How to be An Effective Consumer of Presentations
Corrupt Techniques in Evidence Presentations: New Chapter from Beautiful Evidence. Below is an excerpt from the forthcoming book by Edward Tufte. “Here is the first of several chapters on consuming presentations, on what alert members of an audience or readers of a report should look for in assessing the credibility of the presenter…Corrupt maneuvers…are epidemic… Continue Reading
Is the Government Monitoring Your Web Browsing?
Press release: “Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the FBI and other offices of the US Department of Justice, seeking the release of documents that would reveal whether the government has been using the USA PATRIOT Act to spy on Internet users’ reading habits without a… Continue Reading
New Blog on International Law and Politics
Opinio Juris – “A weblog dedicated to reports, commentary, and debate on current developments and scholarship in the fields of international law and politics.” Authored by law professors Christopher J. Borgen, Peggy McGuinness and Julian G. Ku. [thanks Dan] Continue Reading
