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Daily Archives: June 22, 2005
Hearing Chronology on Patriot Act
June 21, 2005 — Hearing Chronology of the USA Patriot Act – Hearings held by the House Committee on the Judiiciary (3 pages, PDF). Continue Reading
Public Interest Declassification Board Receives Funding Five Years After Establishment
As part of FY2006 Appropriations, specified in House Report 109-119 – Department of Defense Appropriations Bill, the Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB), created five years ago, and comprised of a nine member advisory panel, by next week may actually obtain approval for operational funds, which it has not had since its establishment in 2000. The… Continue Reading
Publishers and Librarians Remain Concerned About Google Digitization Project
As a follow-up to my June 17 posting, Details Revealed on Google Library Project at U. Michigan, from BusinessWeek.com today, A New Page in Google’s Books Fight: “The newly revealed contract with the University of Michigan is stoking publishers’ fears about plans to digitize library collections.” See also this commentary by Daniel Brandt, June 19,… Continue Reading
Proceedings of the Annual Spring Depository Library Council Meeting 2005
As announced this afternoon by Judith C. Russell, Managing Director, Information Dissemination (Superintendent of Documents), links to documents (all in PDF, unless otherwise indicated), are as follows: Plenary Session on Strategic Vision Bruce James, Public Printer GPO’s Future Digital Content System – Status (PowerPoint) Michael L. Wash, Chief Technical Officer, Office of Innovation and New… Continue Reading
FOIA Request By Advocacy Group Reveals Social Security Data Released Post 9/11
Social Security Opened Its Files for 9/11 Inquiry: “The Social Security Administration has relaxed its privacy restrictions and searched thousands of its files at the request of the F.B.I. as part of terrorism investigations since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, newly disclosed records and interviews show.” From EPIC: “Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney has recommended (2 pages,… Continue Reading
GAO Report Highlights RFID Security and Privacy Related Issues
Information Security: Key Considerations Related to Federal Implementation of Radio Frequency Identification Technology GAO-05-849T, June 22, 2005. Highlights. “Radio frequency identification (RFID) is an automated data-capture technology that can be used to electronically identify, track, and store information contained on a tag that is attached to or embedded in an object, such as a product,… Continue Reading
Lugar Releases New Report on WMD Threats and Responses
Press release: “During the next ten years the world faces a 29 percent chance of a nuclear attack and the prospect of four new nations being added to the nuclear weapons club, according to a new survey of non-proliferation and national security experts compile by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Dick Lugar. Over the same… Continue Reading
