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Daily Archives: April 18, 2005
GAO Identifies Personal Data Security Issues at IRS
Information Security: Internal Revenue Service Needs to Remedy Serious Weaknesses over Taxpayer and Bank Secrecy Act Data, GAO-05-482, April 15, 2005. Highlights. “…39 newly identified information security control weaknesses impair IRS’s ability to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of its sensitive financial and taxpayer data and FinCEN’s Bank Secrecy Act data. Related reference: Press… Continue Reading
Bye Bye Matrix
The Multistate Anti-TeRrorism Information EXchange (MATRIX), “a pilot effort to increase and enhance the exchange of sensitive terrorism and other criminal activity information between local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies,” has been cancelled. From the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, this April 15, 2005 press release: MATRIX Pilot Project Concludes From the NewStandard: Controversial… Continue Reading
Polls Says Growing Number of Adults Familiar With Political Blogs
The Harris Poll® #27, April 13, 2005 – “Two-fifths of U.S. Adults Who Are Online Have Read Political Blogs – But less than one in 10 have ever posted a comment on a blog.” Continue Reading
