News release: “The loss of computer tapes by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) may have placed TRICARE patient data at risk. There is no evidence that any of the data has actually been accessed by a third party, and analysis shows the chance any data was actually compromised is low, but proactive measures are being… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: November 2011
EC – Anti-money laundering supervision of and reporting by payment institutions in various cross-border situations
Commission Staff Working Paper – Anti-money laundering supervision of and reporting by payment institutions in various cross-border situations, October 7, 2011 “The purpose of this working document is to provide guidance to EU supervisors and private stakeholders as regards the interaction of the Payment Services Directive (2007/64/EC, hereafter “the PSD”) and the Anti-Money Laundering Directive… Continue Reading
UK Guardian – US road accident casualties: every one mapped across America
Simon Rogers: “US road accident casualties: every one mapped across America – 369,629 people died on America’s roads between 2001 and 2009. Following its analysis of UK casualties last week, transport data mapping experts ITO World have taken the official data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration – and produced this powerful map using… Continue Reading
Google Enables Virtual Access to Dead Sea Scrolls and Museum Galleries Around the World
Follow up to previous postings on The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls project, via NYT – “When the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, home to the Dead Sea Scrolls, reopened last year after an extensive renovation, it attracted a million visitors in the first 12 months. When the museum opened an enhanced Web site with newly digitized… Continue Reading
Freddie Mac – Weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey®
Weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®) – Compilation of Weekly Survey Data for 2011: Average Rates for a 30 Year Fixed Rate Mortgage – 3.98%, November 23, 2011 Continue Reading
BJS: Probation and Parole in the United States, 2010
Probation and Parole in the United States, 2010 – Thomas P. Bonczar, Lauren E. Glaze, November 21, 2011. NCJ 236019 “Presents statistics about adult offenders under community supervision while on probation or parole during 2010. It examines changes in community supervision populations during 2010 and prior years. The report documents a slowing of growth in… Continue Reading
FCC Launches the Small Biz Cyber Planner
News release: “The FCC is launching the Small Biz Cyber Planner, an online resource to help small businesses create customized cybersecurity plans. This is the result of an unprecedented public-private partnership between government experts and private IT and security companies, including DHS, NCSA, NIST, The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, The Chertoff Group, Symantec, Sophos, Visa,… Continue Reading
Report of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry
Report of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry, presented in Manama, Bahrain, on 23 November 2011 [501 pages, PDF]..”The Commissions mandate…is to report on the events in question on the basis of international human rights norms..occurring in Bahrain in February/March 2011, and any subsequent consequences arising out of the aforementioned events, and to make such… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: FDA and Protecting Public Health, Statutory Copyright Licensing
Food and Drug Administration: Better Coordination Could Enhance Efforts to Address Economic Adulteration and Protect the Public Health, GAO-12-46, Oct 24, 2011 Statutory Copyright Licensing: Implications of a Phaseout on Access to Television Programming and Consumer Prices Are Unclear, GAO-12-75, Nov 23, 2011 Continue Reading
McKinsey – How social technologies are extending the organization
“Our fifth annual survey on the way organizations use social tools and technologies finds that they continue to seep into many organizations, transforming business processes and raising performance”. November 2011 Jacques Bughin, Angela Hung Byers, and Michael Chui, McKinsey Global Institute “Companies are improving their mastery of social technologies, using them to enhance operations… Continue Reading
DHS – Estimates of the Legal Permanent Resident Population in 2010
Estimates of the Legal Permanent Resident Population in 2010, October 2011 “This report presents estimates of the legal permanent resident (LPR) population living in the United States on January 1, 2010. The LPR population includes persons granted lawful permanent residence, for example, green card recipients, but not those who had become U.S. citizens. The estimates… Continue Reading
OECD – Health at a Glance 2011
“This sixth edition of Health at a Glance provides the latest comparable data on different aspects of the performance of health systems in OECD countries. It provides striking evidence of large variations across countries in the costs, activities and results of health systems. For the first time, it also features a chapter on long-term care.… Continue Reading
