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Daily Archives: March 14, 2006
Advocacy Groups Support Protections for Blogger’s Speech on the Net
Op-Ed in Roll Call by CDT Officials Supports Protecting Bloggers without Opening Soft Money Loopholes in the Campaign Finance Laws: “H.R. 4900 protects bloggers and small speakers far better than does H.R 1606, and by design, it does not create other loopholes in the campaign finance laws. Those who truly want to protect bloggers and… Continue Reading
Judicial Business of the United States Courts 2005
Legal Decisions, Legislation & Forces of Nature Influence Federal Court Caseload in FY 2005: “Caseload statistics of the federal courts are compiled by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts…For the tenth consecutive record-breaking year, filings in the 12 regional courts of appeals rose 9 percent to an all-time high of 68,473…Civil filings fell 10… Continue Reading
Consumer Product Safety Commission GC Opinions
Office of General Counsel Advisory Opinions [“This index is intended to assist in locating Opinions on a particular subject, but the CPSC does not attest to its accuracy.”] Continue Reading
The SAFE Port Act of 2006
Press release: “Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity, and Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee, introduced the Security and Accountability For Every (SAFE) Port Act today, March 14, 2006.” Fact Sheet, The SAFE Port Act of 2006 WSJ Free Feature: DP… Continue Reading
Offshoring of Computing and IT Jobs
Globalization and Offshoring of Software – A Report of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Job Migration Task Force, William Aspray, Frank Mayadas, Moshe Y. Vardi, Editors “This study reports on the findings of the Job Migration Task Force established by ACM to examine the issues surrounding the migration of jobs within the computing and… Continue Reading
Agency Management of Sensitive Information Questioned by GAO
Managing Sensitive Information: Departments of Energy and Defense Policies and Oversight Could Be Improved, GAO-06-369, March 7, 2006. Full text | Highlights: “…the lack of training requirements and oversight of the Official Use Only (OUO) and For Official Use Only (FOUO) programs leave DOE and DOD officials unable to assure that OUO and FOUO documents… Continue Reading
Judge Backs DOJ In Google Info Release Case
Following up on recent postings about Google’s legal battle with the DOJ, today District Court Judge James Ware indicated he will require Google to provide user generated search data, but with the caveat that he was concerned about use of such data for surveillance purposes. In addition, the government has reportedly scaled back the scope… Continue Reading
70th Anniversary of the Federal Register
Press release, March 10, 2006, The National Archives and GPO Celebrate 70th Anniversary of the Federal Register: “…over the past two years, the public has downloaded almost 200 million Federal Register documents each year. During each of the past ten years, the Federal Register has published more than 70 thousand pages of rulemaking documents.” Continue Reading
GAO Report on Challenges to Spectrum Reform
Telecommunications: Options for and Barriers to Spectrum Reform. GAO-06-526T, March 14, 2006. Full text | Highlights. “The radio-frequency spectrum is used to provide an array of wireless communications services that are critical to the U.S. economy and various government missions, such as national security. With demand for spectrum exploding, and most useable spectrum allocated to… Continue Reading
FOI Audit of Gov’t Policies on Sensitive Unclassified Info
Press release: “The first-ever government-wide audit of the ways that federal agencies mark and protect information that is unclassified but sensitive for security reasons has found 28 different and uncoordinated policies, none of which include effective oversight or monitoring of how many records are marked and withheld, by whom, or for how long. The audit… Continue Reading
