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Daily Archives: June 20, 2006
Report Examines Vulnerabilities of Americas Rail and Mass Transit Security Program
House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security, Democratic Staff report, Detour Ahead: Critical Vulnerabilities in Americas Rail and Mass Transit Security Programs, June 2006 (45 page, PDF). Continue Reading
Industry Leaders Call For Federal Privacy Legislation
The Consumer Privacy Legislative Forum (whose members include Google, Microsoft, Oracle, EBay Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc. and Symantec Corp.) issued a statement supporting “a serious process to consider comprehensive harmonized federal privacy legislation to create a simplified, uniform but flexible legal framework.” Google Official Blog: “On an Internet beset with spyware,… Continue Reading
According to GAO, VA Still Does Not Have Comprehensive Info Security Program
Following up on previous postings on the VA data breach, today the GAO issued yet another related report – Information Security: Leadership Needed to Address Weaknesses and Privacy Issues at Veterans Affairs, Full text GAO-06-897T, and Highlights, June 20, 2006. “For many years, significant concerns have been raised about VA’s information security–particularly its lack of… Continue Reading
DOJ OIG Survey of Access to Information Problems Encountered by Gov't Agencies
Survey Results on Access to Information Problems Encountered by Federal, State, and Local Accountability Organizations, Evaluation and Inspections Report, I-2006-006, June 2006. (107 pages, PDF) “Accountability organizations such as federal and state offices of inspector general and state and local audit organizations are responsible for helping ensure that government operations use public resources wisely and… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com
The Government Domain – Google’s New U.S. Government Search, by Peggy Garvin Continue Reading
FTC and DOJ Allow Electronic Submission of Premerger Notification Filings
Press release: “The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division today announced that they are implementing an electronic filing system that allows merging parties to submit via the Internet premerger notification filings required by the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act. Electronic filings may be submitted quickly and easily, eliminating the time and expense… Continue Reading
DOJ Posts FOIA Improvement Plans
“As was indicated in its governmentwide policy guidance issued under Executive Order 13,392 — see FOIA Post, Executive Order 13,392 Implementation Guidance (posted 4/27/06) (noting, in footnote 2, prospective treatment of improvement plans and annual FOIA reports alike) — the Office of Information and Privacy has established a special location on its FOIA Web site… Continue Reading
Phone Surveillance By State and Local Law Enforcement Uses Data Brokers
AP: “Federal and local police across the country – as well as some of the nation’s best-known companies – have been gathering Americans’ phone records from private data brokers without subpoenas or warrants. These brokers, many of whom market aggressively on the Internet, have broken into customer accounts online, tricked phone companies into revealing information… Continue Reading
The Battle for Search Engine Dominance Continues
The un-Google, June 15, 2006, from The Economist print edition (free online, if you view an advert first): “Google dominates the lucrative market for web-search, but its rivals [Microsoft, Ask, Yahoo] are setting out to change that.” Most Microsoft Workers Search With Google – Do employees at Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google use their own search… Continue Reading
New York Public Library Continues to Excel at Phone Reference Services
New York Times: Library Phone Answerers Survive the Internet Continue Reading
Search Full Text of EDGAR Filings From Last 2 Years
SEC: “This page allows you to search the full text of EDGAR filings from the last two years. The full text of a filing includes all data in the filing as well as all attachments to the filing. We are still developing this feature, and we plan to enhance it based on user feedback.” Other… Continue Reading
