Press release: “Tens of thousands of consumers are unwitting accomplices of illegal spammers and at the mercy of identity thieves, warns the Federal Trade Commission. These consumers computers have been secretly hijacked by criminals who install spam-sending software and spyware on the computers when consumers open malicious e-mail attachments or visit a malicious Web site.… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2007
DOD OIG Privacy Program and Privacy Impact Assessments
D-2007-099DoD Privacy Program and Privacy Impact Assessments (June 13, 2007) (Project D2006-D000AL-0087.000) PDF and Summary. “We performed the audit to determine whether DoD Components reported consistent and valid information to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Congress regarding management and protection of personal information related to… Continue Reading
DHS OIG Statements to Congress on Deepwater and Disaster Assistance Oversight
Statement of Richard L. Skinner, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, June 12, 2007 (PDF, 10 pages) Statement for the Record, Matt Jadacki, Deputy Inspector General for Disaster Assistance Oversight, June 12, 2007 (PDF, 18 pages) Continue Reading
Judiciary Chairmen Leahy, Conyers Issue Subpoenas For White House Officials, Documents
Press release: “Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., today issued subpoenas to two former White House officials compelling them to provide testimony and related information as part of ongoing congressional investigations into the mass firings of well-performing federal prosecutors and the politicization of hiring and firing… Continue Reading
Secret Surveillance Evidence Unsealed in Telecom Domestic Surveillance Case
Follow up to previous postings on the domestic surveillance program and AT&T’s alleged participation, this press release today: “More documents detailing secret government surveillance of AT&T’s Internet traffic have been released to the public as part of the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF’s) class-action lawsuit against the telecom giant. Some of the unsealed information was previously… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve Beige Book – June 13, 2007
“June 13, 2007, Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District. Prepared at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia based on information collected before June 4, 2007. This document summarizes comments received from businesses and other contacts outside the Federal Reserve and is not a representation of the views of Federal Reserve… Continue Reading
FEC Presidential Campaign Finance Contributions to All Candidates by State
Federal Election Commission Presidential Campaign Finance Map. “Up-to-date campaign finance information for the 2008 Presidential Election is now available via an easy to use map of the USA.” GCN.com: FEC maps out finance data – Site taps database of whos giving to whom Continue Reading
Report to the President on the Issues Raised by the Virginia Tech Tragedy
Press release: Today, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt, and Department of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings reported to the President about the issues raised by the Virginia Tech tragedy….We know that the federal government should not attempt to answer all the questions raised by this event, but… Continue Reading
More Americans Than Ever Serving on Juries
National Center for State Courts: “More than one-third of all Americans are likely to serve as jurors at some point in their lifetime, according to a newly released study by the Center for Jury Studies of the National Center for State Courts. This is a dramatic increase from 1977, when only 6 percent of Americans… Continue Reading
Oversight Report on CDC Issued by Minority Office of the Federal Financial Management Subcommittee
Press release: “CDC Off Center, a 115-page oversight report authored by the Minority Office of the Federal Financial Management Subcommittee, under the direction of ranking member Senator Tom Coburn, examines how CDC has tilted off center and makes recommendations about how it might get back on track. The American people expect CDC to spend its… Continue Reading
Google Agrees to Cut Data Retention Time in Response to EU Privacy Laws
EPIC reports: “Google will cut the period that it retains user data from a maximum of 24 months to a maximum of 18 months, the company said in a letter (pdf) to the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party. Last month, the Working Party began to investigate (pdf) Google’s privacy practices and asked whether the… Continue Reading
Senate Committee Releases Oversight Report on CDC
Press release: “U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), a practicing physician, today released an oversight report on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an agency with a $10 billion annual budget and a crucial public health mission. Recent events have highlighted how critical CDCs mission is to the health of our nation. The… Continue Reading
