“What happens to your personal data when you board a plane, open a bank account, or share photos online? How is this data used and by whom? How do you permanently delete profile information on social networking websites? Can you transfer your contacts and photos to another service? Controlling your information, having access to your data, being able to modify or delete it these are essential rights that have to be guaranteed in today’s digital world. To address these issues, the European Commission today set out a strategy on how to protect individuals’ data in all policy areas, including law enforcement, while reducing red tape for business and guaranteeing the free circulation of data within the EU. This policy review will be used by the Commission with the results of a public consultation to revise the EUs 1995 Data Protection Directive. The Commission will then propose legislation in 2011.”
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Daily Archives: November 4, 2010
BLS: Employment Situation – October 2010
News release: “Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 151,000 in October, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.6 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Since December 2009, nonfarm payroll employment has risen by 874,000. The number of unemployed persons, at 14.8 million, was little changed in October. The unemployment rate remained at… Continue Reading
Law Firm Diversity Among Associates Erodes in 2010
News release and findings “The latest NALP [National Association for Law Placement] findings on law firm demographics reveal that the overall representation of women and minority lawyers in law firms declined between 2009 and 2010, likely a casualty of massive lawyer layoffs during the 2008-2009 recession. In 2010, the percentage of women and minority partners… Continue Reading
New Executive Order on Controlled Unclassified Information
“This order establishes an open and uniform program for managing information that requires safeguarding or dissemination controls pursuant to and consistent with law, regulations, and Government-wide policies, excluding information that is classified under Executive Order 13526 of December 29, 2009, or the Atomic Energy Act, as amended. At present, executive departments and agencies (agencies) employ… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes, Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes, Nuclear Commerce
Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2010 Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes, GAO-11-120R, November 04, 2010 Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2010 Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes, GAO-11-121R, November 04, 2010 Nuclear Commerce: Governmentwide Strategy Could Help Increase Commercial Benefits from U.S. Nuclear Cooperation Agreements with Other Countries, GAO-11-36, November 04, 2010 Continue Reading
Energy Information Admnistration: Wholesale Market Data
Wholesale Market Data Nov 4, 2010: This site contains spreadsheets with wholesale electricity price data from ICE (IntercontinentalExchange) through October 29, 2010 (latest web site update: November 4, 2010). The files contain peak prices, volumes, and the number of transactions at six electricity trading hubs covering most regions of the United States.” Continue Reading
2010 Human Development Report: 40-year Trends Analysis Shows Poor Countries Making Faster Development Gains
News release: “Most developing countries made dramatic yet often underestimated progress in health, education and basic living standards in recent decades, with many of the poorest countries posting the greatest gains, reveals a detailed new analysis of long-term Human Development Index (HDI) trends in the 2010 Human Development Report, released here today. Yet patterns of… Continue Reading
Zonability: designed to make zoning information useful for owners, renters, investors, watchdog groups
“Zonability is an application designed to make zoning information useful for property owners, renters, sellers, buyers, remodelers, investors, and neighborhood watchdog groups. We make this information useful by providing real world context and easy to use interfaces…Zoning is embedded in a property’s price tag. For the savvy buyer, they know how to mine this value… Continue Reading
PBS Frontline and ProPublica Document BP Oil Spill of 2010
Follow up to previous postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, via FRONTLINE – The Spill: “A joint investigation by FRONTLINE and ProPublica into the trail of problems — deadly accidents, disastrous spills, countless safety violations — which long troubled the oil giant, BP. Could the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico have been prevented?” Continue Reading
CDC's Health Communicator's Social Media Toolkit
CDC – The Health Communicator’s Social Media Toolkit: “In the last several years, the use of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and other social media tools to disseminate health messages has grown significantly, and continues to trend upward. Using social media tools has become an effective way to expand reach, foster engagement, and increase access to credible,… Continue Reading
NRDC Report – Ranking States' Gasoline Price Vulnerability and Solutions for Change
NRDC Issue Paper, November 2010 – Fighting Oil Addiction, Ranking States Gasoline Price Vulnerability and Solutions for Change “The purpose of this report is to update NRDCs 2007, 2008, and 2009 research identifying the states that are most vulnerable to spikes in gasoline pricesand those states that are doing the most to break their addiction… Continue Reading
Assessing Progress on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament 20092010 Report Card
“As an education and policy advocacy organization dedicated to reducing the threats posed by the worlds most dangerous weapons, the Arms Control Association believes it is essential that states meet their nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament standards and objectives and that the public has the information and tools necessary to help hold governments accountable. This report… Continue Reading
