From the White House blog:
Nine years ago — a lifetime in Internet time — the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a policy commonly referred to as “the cookies policy. ” This policy prohibited federal agencies from using certain web-tracking technologies, primarily persistent cookies, unless the agency head provided a waiver. This may sound [...]
Archive of entries posted on July 2009
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NARA Draft 2009 Strategic Plan
From NARA:
NARA has drafted an update to its 2006-2016 Strategic Plan to reflect accomplishments and adjustments to its priorities. This update is in compliance with the requirement in the Government Performance Results Act of 1993 for periodic updates at least every 3 years. We welcome your comments on this draft plan by Wednesday, August 5, [...]
Kundra to agencies: Get ready for data deluge
From Federal Computer Week:
Agencies need to prepare for an explosion of new data over the next five years that will be created partly because of emerging Web 2.0 technologies, Vivek Kundra, the federal chief information officer, told a conference in Washington.
“This notion of thinking about data in a structured, relational database is dead,” Kundra said [...]
Senate Bill Would Disclose Intel Budget Request
From Secrecy News:
The Senate version of the FY2010 intelligence authorization bill (S. 1494) would require the President to disclose the aggregate amount requested for intelligence each year when the coming year’s budget request is submitted to Congress. Currently, only the total appropriation for the National Intelligence Program is disclosed — not the request — [...]
EFF Demands Intelligence Agencies’ Reports About Possible Misconduct
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation:
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit today against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a half-dozen other federal agencies involved in intelligence gathering, demanding the immediate release of reports about potential misconduct. EFF filed suit under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), requesting records of intelligence agencies’ reporting of activities [...]
After Lawsuit, Obama Administration Releases Logs of Private Meetings With Health Care Industry Executives
From ABC News:
Faced with a lawsuit from a government watchdog group, the Obama Administration tonight released a list of visits health care industry executives made to the White House since January.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a left-leaning good-government group, filed a lawsuit today against the Department of Homeland Security after the Secret Service [...]
Google Book Settlement Webinar
Google Library Project Settlement: What It Means for Publishers
SPONSORED BY: Google, The Association of American Publishers, and Publishers Weekly
EVENT DATE: Wednesday, July 29, 2 pm ET Time – 60 minutes
In a webinar first, the leaders involved with the crafting of the Google Library Project Settlement will share with the publishing industry the benefits of [...]
Give Your Input On the Google Book Search Settlement
From LIS News:
Publishers Weekly would like your input on the Google Book Search Settlement (from PW) and they are conducting a survey designed to gather a broad view of how the Settlement is being viewed. For details on the proposed settlement (from Google), click here.
If you’re interested, take a few minutes to answer this brief, [...]
School libraries, out of favor
From China Central Television:
Our next story proves that some relics are better than others. Most schools in Chinese cities have a mini-library attached to them that is supposed to help children develop a lifelong love of books and literature. But in a recent study, many school libraries have failed to accomplish this task and have [...]
Copyfraud: Poisoning the public domain
From The Register:
The public domain is the greatest resource in human history: eventually all knowledge will become part of it. Its riches serve all mankind, but it faces a new threat. Vast libraries of public domain works are being plundered by claims of “copyright”. It’s called copyfraud – and we’ll discover how large corporations like [...]