Do Data Breach Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft? Sasha Romanosky, Rahul Telang, Alessandro Acquisti, Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University “Identity theft resulted in corporate and consumer losses of $56 billion dollars in 2005, with about 30% of known identity thefts caused by corporate data breaches. Many US states have responded… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2008
Council of Europe Campaign to Combat Violence Against Women
“Violence against women, including domestic violence, is the result of an imbalance of power in society. It is a human rights violation and a major obstacle to overcoming inequality between women and men. Despite positive developments in law, policies and practices, it still occurs in every Council of Europe member state at all levels of… Continue Reading
Securing our future: Final report from Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa
Securing our future: Report of the Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa An initiative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, 2008 “The Commissions brief was to advise African governments on the extent of the AIDS epidemics impact on African social, political and economic institutions and on the appropriate policy responses and programmes that… Continue Reading
FDA Warns Consumers Nationwide Not to Eat Certain Types of Raw Red Tomatoes
News release: “The Food and Drug Administration is expanding its warning to consumers nationwide that a salmonellosis outbreak has been linked to consumption of certain raw red plum, red Roma, and red round tomatoes, and products containing these raw, red tomatoes. FDA recommends that consumers not eat raw red Roma, raw red plum, raw red… Continue Reading
FBI's Security Check Procedures for Immigration Applications and Petitions
DOJ OIG: The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Security Check Procedures for Immigration Applications and Petitions (Redacted for Public Release), Audit Report 08-24, June 2008. “According to the FBI, IAFIS [the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification Solution] maintains the largest biometric database in the world, containing the fingerprints and corresponding criminal history for more than 50 million… Continue Reading
GAO Report: Expert Opinion on the Economics of Policy Options to Address Climate Change
Climate Change: Expert Opinion on the Economics of Policy Options to Address Climate Change, GAO-08-605, May 09, 2008: “Elevated levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the resulting effects on the earth’s climate could have significant environmental and economic impacts in the United States and internationally. Potential impacts include rising sea levels and a… Continue Reading
Committee on Oversight Releases Proposed Abramoff Report
“Chairman Waxman and Ranking Member Davis issued a proposed Committee report on White House contacts with Jack Abramoff that concludes that Mr. Abramoff had personal contact with President Bush, that high-level White House officials held Mr. Abramoff and his associates in high regard and solicited recommendations from them on policy matters, that Mr. Abramoff and… Continue Reading
CBO: Federal Housing Finance Regulatory Reform Act of 2008, Resource Implications of the Navy's FY09 Shipbuilding Plan
Federal Housing Finance Regulatory Reform Act of 2008 June 9, 2008: Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on May 20, 2008. “This legislation would make a number of changes in federal housing policy…[It would] establish a single regulatorthe Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)… Continue Reading
FBI Releases Preliminary Annual Crime Statistics for 2007
News release: “According to the FBI’s Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report released today, the nation experienced a 1.4 percent decrease in the number of violent crimes and a 2.1 percent decline in the number of property crimes for 2007 compared with data from 2006. The report is based on information that the FBI gathered from… Continue Reading
Committee Report to Accompany the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act
Text of the Committee Report to Accompany the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, H.R. 6063, Science & Technology Committee Report: 110-702 (191 pages, PDF) Text of the Bill as Ordered Reported H.R. 6063, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2008, June 6, 2008 – Cost estimate for the bill as ordered… Continue Reading
Introduction to Information Retrieval
“This is the companion website for the following book. Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze, Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press. 2008. This “is the first textbook with a coherent treatment of classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering. Written from… Continue Reading
Washington Institute Report: Energy in Danger: Iran, Oil, and the West
Policy Focus #83 – Energy in Danger: Iran, Oil, and the West, Simon Henderson, June 2008 “Every day, nearly 40 percent of the world’s internationally traded oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz — a narrow channel over which Iran holds distinct military advantages. Given that the global economy is predicted to become even more… Continue Reading
