From Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington:
Based on months of research and the results of an on-line survey, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has released a report today, Record Chaos: The Deplorable State of Electronic Record Keeping in the Federal Government, concluding that the federal government is severely mismanaging its electronic [...]
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New CREW Report Finds Federal Government Electronic Record Keeping Practices Abysmal
Yahoo fund aids ‘cyber dissidents’ in China
From Yahoo! News:
A fund set up by Yahoo to atone for revealing “cyber dissidents” to Chinese officials is aiding people jailed there for human rights views posted on the Internet, its overseer said Wednesday.
Harry Wu, a widely-known Chinese dissident who spent 19 years in labor camps for voicing his opinions, declined to say how much [...]
SLA Sends Letter Opposing Proposed Closing of Sandia National Laboratories Research Library
SLA Press Release:
Sandia is part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, and is managed by Lockheed Martin. It is government owned and contractor operated. Funding is provided by the Department of Energy, with other major funding through the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense.
Special Libraries Association (SLA), [...]
Search About to Upset the Political Applecart
From Search Engine Watch:
According to a Des Moines Register Iowa Poll published back in May, 56 percent of the people in Iowa who are likely to participate in the state’s presidential caucuses in January “search the Internet for candidates’ stands on issues.” By comparison, 94 percent watch candidate debates, 93 percent read newspaper stories about [...]
Beijing police launch virtual Web patrols to scare surfers from illegal sites
From the Mercury News:
Police in China’s capital said Tuesday they will start patrolling the Web using animated beat officers that pop up on a user’s browser and walk, bike or drive across the screen warning them to stay away from illegal Internet content.
Starting Sept. 1, the cartoon alerts will appear every half hour on 13 [...]
DOD ending TALON military database of domestic terror threats in September
From JURIST:
The US Defense Department’s controversial Threat and Local Observation Notice system, or TALON database, will be discontinued on September 17 [press release] but the data it has collected will be retained in accordance with intelligence oversight requirements, Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Gary Keck said Tuesday. Keck said that TALON is being suspended because it [...]