PATRIOT Act Oversight Hearing on Section 203 (b) and (d) of the USA-PATRIOT, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Tuesday, April 19, 2005: Chairman’s Opening Statement: “As part of the USA PATRIOT Act, Congress included a sunset provision on certain new authorities in the Act. Two of these provisions, sections 203(b) and 203(d),… Continue Reading
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Database Provider Begins Informing Individuals Impacted by Data Breach
Press release today: “LexisNexis U.S., a leading provider of legal, news and business information said today it has begun mailing notification letters to approximately 280,000 individuals whose personally identifying information may have been accessed by unauthorized individuals using passwords and IDs stolen from legitimate customers of its Seisint unit.” Related references here and here. Continue Reading
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
Safeguarding Americans from Exporting Identification Data (SAFE ID) Act
Press release: “Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Representative Edward J. Markey announced that they would introduce the Safeguarding Americans from Exporting Identification Data (SAFE ID) Act in the United States Senate and House today, legislation that would protect the privacy of consumers’ most sensitive personal information. This legislation would close gaps in U.S. privacy laws… Continue Reading
Senate Votes in Favor of Identifying Gov’t Videos Distributed as “News”
As a follow-up to my March 16, 2005 posting, Controversy Surrounds Government Sponsored News, today the Senate Agrees on ID for Gov’t Video News Continue Reading
Denial of FOIA Request for Portions of IRS Manual Results in Lawsuit
IRS Denies It’s Refusing to Release Papers…and in response, Federal Lawsuit Filed Today Against IRS Is Part of Broad Effort to Provide Information About Agency’s Audit Activities to the Public Background: Dangers Posed by IRS Secrecy Full Text of District Court Complaint (12 pages, PDF) Continue Reading
Blogging Within the Enterprise
Blogs, Wikis, RSS: Walking the enterprise tightrope Continue Reading
Connecting to Blog Readers the Audio Way
From your lips to millions of ears via podcasting – Think of it as audio blogging — technology makes it easy to have your own radio show [thanks Connie] Related news: TVEyes Announces Podscope®, The First Engine to Search Within a Podcast Continue Reading
President and Newspaper Editors Differ in Views on FOI
Has the sun set on FOIAs future?: “Kevin Goldberg, legal counsel for the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) said government efforts to prevent the public release of information is forcing many newspapers to go to court.” President Bush addressed the American Society of Newspaper Editors today. The full text of his remarks are available… Continue Reading
Yahoo! News Launches Redesigned Site in Beta
The current Yahoo! News site has been transformed with this beta that sports a more sophisticated and user-friendly design, layout, and navigation features, using well placed content tabs, as well as more prominent display and organization of sources and time stamp for respective topical news stories. RSS feeds and custom user queries are supported. See… Continue Reading
