News release: “The Federal Trade Commission has issued a fourth interim report to Congress describing progress the agency has made on a national study examining the accuracy of credit reports. Congress directed the FTC to conduct a study of credit report accuracy and provide interim reports every two years, starting in 2004 and continuing through… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2011
Federal Reserve Beige Book, January 12, 2011
Full Report – Beige Book, January 12, 2011 – Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District, and link to reports by Districts: “Reports from the twelve Federal Reserve Districts suggest that economic activity continued to expand moderately from November through December. Conditions were said to be improving in the Boston, New… Continue Reading
Classification of the End-of-Term Archive: Extending Collection Development Practices to Web Archives
Classification of the End-of-Term Archive: Extending Collection Development Practices to Web Archives – Findings of the Web Archive Survey of Federal Depository Libraries, December 2010, Revised: January 2011, Kathleen Murray “The Classification of the End-of-Term Archive (EOT Archive) project builds on a previous project1 conducted collaboratively by the Library of Congress, the US Government Printing… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Electricity Grid Modernization, TARP
Electricity Grid Modernization: Progress Being Made on Cybersecurity Guidelines, but Key Challenges Remain to be Addressed, GAO-11-117, January 12, 2011: “The electric industry is increasingly incorporating information technology (IT) systems into its operations as part of nationwide effortscommonly referred to as smart gridto improve reliability and efficiency. There is concern that if these efforts are… Continue Reading
Goldman Sachs – Report of the Business Standards Committee
Report of the Business Standards Committee, January 2011: “The scope and intensity of the Committees eight month review have been significant, encompassing every major business, region and activity of the firm. We made 39 recommendations for change spanning client service, conflicts and business selection, structured products, transparency and disclosure, committee governance, training and professional development… Continue Reading
DHS Privacy Office 2010 Data Mining Report to Congress
DHS Privacy Office 2010 Data Mining Report to Congress, December 2010 “This is the DHS Privacy Offices fifth comprehensive report to Congress on DHS activities that involve data mining, and the third report pursuant to the Data Mining Reporting Act. The Homeland Security Act expressly authorizes the Department to use data mining, among other analytical… Continue Reading
Pew: The 2010 Congressional Reapportionment and Latinos
The 2010 Congressional Reapportionment and Latinos, January 2010 “Hispanic voters are nearly three times more prevalent in states that gained congressional seats and Electoral College votes in the 2010 reapportionment than they are in states that lost seats, according to an analysis of Census data by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew… Continue Reading
Commentary – Undersea Cables: The Achilles Heel of our Economies
Follow up to Critical Undersea Internet Cables Damaged Between Europe and Mideast, this related commentary, Undersea Cables: The Achilles Heel of our Economies, by Franz-Stefan Gady “Hardly any people know that our global digital connectivity rests upon a relatively few fiber optic cables lying at the bottom of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. They… Continue Reading
Report: Protecting the Digital Economy
“On January 10, 2011, the EastWest Institute released a report detailing the results of the First Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit: Protecting the Digital Economy, and outlining the cybersecurity initiatives next steps as it prepares for the Second Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit in London on June 1-2. At the summit, held from May 3 to 5, 2010 in… Continue Reading
Final Report Issued by National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling
Deep Water – The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling Report to the President, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, January 2011 [Note: GPO has also published this report, here] “…the disaster in the Gulf undermined public faith in the energy industry, government regulators, and even… Continue Reading
EIA: Short-Term Energy Outlook January 2011
Short-Term Energy Outlook January 2011 Jan 11, 2011: “Short-term energy projections for supply, demand, and price for the major fuels through 2012 for the U.S. International oil forecasts are included.” Continue Reading
U.S. Census Bureau Releases 130th Edition of Federal Government's Best-Selling Reference Book
News release: “Metropolitan population growth is just one of more than a thousand topics addressed in the U.S. Census Bureau’s Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2011. The Abstract is perennially the federal government’s best-selling reference book. When it was first published in 1878, the nation had only 38 states, people usually got around using… Continue Reading
