August 3, 2016 – Read the full “Proactive Disclosure” press release at DOJ.gov. “The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is one of seven federal agencies participating in a pilot program to make records requested via the Freedom of Information Act more readily available to the public, as reflected in the recently released Third… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2016
New Commitments to Accelerate the Safe Integration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems
White House Fact Sheet, August 2, 2016: “Since President Obama took office in 2009, developments in aviation, sensing, and software technology have powered a revolution in unmanned flight. In the next decade, the burgeoning commercial drone industry is projected to generate more than $82 billion for the U.S. economy and, by 2025, could support as… Continue Reading
YouTube’s traffic is 97 percent encrypted
“Today we added YouTube to Google’s HTTPS transparency report. We’re proud to announce that in the last two years, we steadily rolled out encryption using HTTPS to 97 percent of YouTube’s traffic. Continue Reading
UK Intellectual Property Enterprise Court guide
Via Gov.UK – Intellectual Property Enterprise Court guide – The guide covers all the steps involved in using the court, including how to: start a claim in the court serve the claim form write a statement of case put together a trial bundle It also contains contact details for the court and an example of… Continue Reading
New initiative from Privacy International tracks the global surveillance industry
“A new initiative launched today by Privacy International aims to track the growth and scale of the global surveillance industry, a shadowy sector consisting of companies selling a wide range of electronic surveillance technology to government agencies across the world. Made available today is the world’s largest publicly available educational resource of data and documents… Continue Reading
The Robustness of EU Financial Crimes Legislation
Herlin-Karnell, Ester and Ryder, Nicholas, The Robustness of EU Financial Crimes Legislation: A Critical Review of the EU and UK Anti-Fraud and Money Laundering Scheme (May 2016). European Business Law Review, 2017, Forthcoming. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2816980 “The paper investigates the European Union’s (EU) fight against crime as partly one of establishing the… Continue Reading
Cognitive Emotion and the Law
Lloyd, Harold Anthony, Cognitive Emotion and the Law (August 1, 2016). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2817201 “Many wrongly believe that emotion plays little or no role in legal reasoning. Unfortunately, Langdell and his “scientific” case method encourage this error. A careful review of analysis in the real world, however, belies this common belief. Emotion… Continue Reading
Regulated Institutions to Submit Self-Assessments of Diversity Policies and Practices
“The federal banking agencies today provided information on how the financial institutions they regulate may begin to submit self-assessments of their diversity policies and practices as of year-end 2015, and issued Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the process. Financial institutions are strongly encouraged to disclose on their websites their diversity policies and practices, as well… Continue Reading
Interest Costs in The Long-Term Budget Outlook
“Earlier this month, the Congressional Budget Office published The 2016 Long-Term Budget Outlook, describing the agency’s projections of federal spending, revenues, deficits, and debt over the next 30 years. Yesterday we highlighted key factors underlying the projected growth in spending for Social Security and the major health care programs. Today we’ll focus on interest costs.… Continue Reading
Options to Improve the Financial Condition of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation’s Multiemployer Program
“The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is a government-owned corporation responsible for insuring the benefits of 41 million people who participate in defined benefit pension plans provided by private employers. About 10 million of those participants are covered by plans offered by groups of employers; such plans are insured by PBGC’s multiemployer program. That program… Continue Reading
Hospital Uncompensated Care: Federal Action Needed to Better Align Payments with Costs
Hospital Uncompensated Care: Federal Action Needed to Better Align Payments with Costs, GAO-16-568: Published: Jun 30, 2016. Publicly Released: Aug 1, 2016: “Key sources of federal support for hospitals incurring costs for services provided to uninsured and other low-income individuals (uncompensated care costs) include multiple types of Medicaid and Medicare payments totaling about $50 billion… Continue Reading
Obama Administration Announces Nearly 50 Percent Decline in Veteran Homelessness
“The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) today announced the number of veterans experiencing homelessness in the United States has been cut nearly in half since 2010. The data revealed a 17 percent decrease in veteran homelessness between January… Continue Reading
