@INFO.POLICY: Banning e-mail'it's not so crazy
The city council of Liverpool, England, in July banned the use of e-mail for internal communications. Why? To persuade government staff to start talking to one another.
@Info Policy: NARA makes another half-hearted attempt at policy
The National Archives and Records Administration wants to redesign federal records management. What's in it for the records managers and IT folks trying to figure out how to deal with preservation issues? I'll come back to that question in a minute, but don't set your hopes too high.
@INFO.POLICY: For the latest in privacy, look north
Our neighbors to the north recently re-leased a new and helpful tool for assessing the impact of government activities on privacy. The Privacy Impact Assessment from the Canadian government is a sophisticated guide to such assessments.
@INFO.POLICY: Do you know how to tell if your site is any good?
Is my Web site any good? Any agency webmaster should be asking that question on a regular basis. And yet it is not the right starting question.
@Info.Policy: Webmasters must grapple with linkage policy
Should a federal Web page have links to other Internet resources? Links are easy enough to create, so why not? Unfortunately, life is not that simple.
@Info.Policy: Enough with FOIA-weakening bills
I am tired of seeing bills to exempt company information from the Freedom of Information Act.
@ Info Policy: No simple questions for national ID system
What sex are you? I hope that question isn't too personal. I'll bet just about everybody reading this paper knew the answer without even looking down.
@Info Policy: E-government + Microsoft = Passport to trouble?
How does your agency identify people online? I am not talking only about user names and passwords. I mean real authentication and authorization. Agencies need to be sure who people are before conducting business with them online.
@Info.Policy: On privacy, U.S. should look to the north
IT and personal privacy concerns go hand in hand. As technology gets more powerful and pervasive, it impinges on privacy. This is nothing new.
@Info. Policy: Bush team stumbles on health privacy
In March, the Bush administration proposed some modifications to the health privacy rule that Bill Clinton promulgated on his way out the door. The rule was issued under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, fondly referred to as HIPAA.
@Info.Policy: A mania for secrecy, or situation normal?
Does the Bush administration have a mania about secrecy?
@Info.Policy: Education statistics agency plays loose with privacy
A traditional way to balance privacy and research needs is to allow personal data to be used only in aggregate form for statistical purposes. The Census Bureau offers a good example.
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Last year, the federal courts developed privacy rules for electronic records to keep the lives of persons entangled in bankruptcy and other cases from being exposed through open court records. I am not talking about judicial opinions, but about briefs and other filings that contain the nitty-gritty details.
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If you are not careful when surfing the Internet, someone could install so-called spyware on your system that tells third parties about your Internet activities. I am not talking about viruses. The perpetrators are usually advertisers who want marketing data.
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There is a joke about a driver who lost his keys on the street one night. As he rummaged around on the ground in a pool of light from a street lamp, a friend offered to help and asked where he thought the keys were lost.
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When should the government keep publicly available information off the Internet? Unfortunately, that is no longer a dumb question. Not after Sept. 11.
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The latest development in the information policy world derives from language tacked onto the fiscal 2001 Treasury appropriations bill last year.
Justice office foils Clinton's FOIA policies
For any administration, getting agencies to march to the same beat is not a trivial concern. For example, the Clinton administration has been very supportive of computer networks and has been good about making government information available on the Internet. The policy direction has clearly and consistently favored citizen access to data, computers and computer networks.
Thomas is not a tool for reforming Congress
@INFO.POLICY VIEW FROM INSIDE By Robert Gellman Thomas, the Library of Congress Internet service for legislative information ( http://Thomas.loc.gov ), opened last year to glowing reviews. More recently, it has been criticized for failing to live up to House Speaker Newt Gingrich's promise to provide citizens with key information about Congress at the same moment that the information is available to the highest-paid Washington lobbyist.
The latest weapon in encryption war: a T-Shirt
A T-shirt now available for sale through the Internet is the latest and most amusing sign of the bankruptcy of current U.S. government policy on encryption. The T-shirt has a machine-readable encryption algorithm that is subject to export controls under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). In effect, the T-shirt is a munition.
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