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New Email Service Replaces Export Alert

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“Notify U.S. is a free, web-based e-mail subscription service that offers U.S. entities (citizens, industries, organizations) an opportunity to review and comment on proposed foreign technical regulations that can affect their businesses and their access to international markets. This service and its associated web site is managed and operated by the National Center for Standards… Continue Reading

Current Administration Classifying Documents at Unprecedented Rate

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New York Times editorial today, The Dangerous Comfort of Secrecy: “The Bush administration is classifying the documents to be kept from public scrutiny at the rate of 125 a minute. The move toward greater secrecy has nearly doubled the number of documents annually hidden from public view – to well more than 15 million last… Continue Reading

Wiretapping In-Flight Passenger Internet and Wireless Communications

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Wired reports today that the DOJ, FBI and DHS filed comments (23 pages, PDF) with the FCC seeking authority to require carriers to supply access to passenger in-flight communications “processed to and from broadband enabled communications devices onboard aircraft operating with United States airspace…,” that they further require to be recorded by the carriers, once… Continue Reading

NY Times Editorial Today on Patriot Act

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“Unnecessary Powers: The Patriot Act already gives government too much power to spy on ordinary Americans, but things could get far worse. Congress is considering adding a broad new investigative power, known as the administrative subpoena, that would allow the Federal Bureau of Investigation to gain access to anyone’s financial, medical, employment and even library… Continue Reading

Rove, Prame, Cooper, Time…The Contentious Investigation Continues

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From WSJ free content today, Cooper Email Identifies Rove As a Source Related references: from Editor and Publisher as follows: Press Batters McClellan on Rove/Plame Link and More Miller-Cooper Fallout: ‘L.A. Times’ Tells Reporters Not to Enter Unnamed Names in Computers and ‘Newsweek’ Says It Has First Word on What Karl Rove Told Matt Cooper… Continue Reading

GAO Reviews Agency IT Readiness for Public Health Emergencies

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Information Technology: Federal Agencies Face Challenges in Implementing Initiatives to Improve Public Health Infrastructure GAO-05-308, June 10, 2005. Highlights. “…CDC and DHS face challenges in addressing specific weaknesses in IT planning and management that may hinder progress in developing and deploying public health IT initiatives. Until all these challenges are addressed, progress toward building a… Continue Reading

E-Mail Preferred Way for Constituents to Communicate with Congress

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Communicating with Congress: How Capitol Hill is Coping with the Surge in Citizen Advocacy; “The Internet and e-mail have made it easier and cheaper than ever before for citizens to communicate with their Members of Congress. In 2004, Congress received 200 million communications, four times more than in 1995 — the direct result of Internet-based… Continue Reading

Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

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In a follow-up to my June 28, 2004 posting, Gov’t Cmte. Established to Develop Voluntary Voting System Guidelines, see the following: “Voluntary Voting System Guidelines were developed under the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) Section 202 mandate that the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) update the 2002 Voting System Standards to address increasingly… Continue Reading