Digital Government
Law requires health data breach notifications
The economic stimulus law requires companies to notify people whose unsecured medical data has been breached.
People
GAO: New mind-set would improve defense acquisition
Defense experts and officials say congressional changes alone won't correct acquisitions problems.
Cybersecurity
DHS gets new acting CIO
Margaret Graves takes over as acting chief information officer today on Richard Mangogna's last day as CIO.
People
FCW Insider: Nancy Potter, RIP
Potter had retired in Dec. 2007 as the General Services Administration's longest-serving employee.
Modernization
Recovery.gov linked to other stimulus tracking sites
The White House's Recovery.gov Web site for tracking stimulus spending is posting links to federal and state sites.
Modernization
GAO: Labor's whistleblower data a mess
The Labor Department's records for federal whistleblowers are often inaccurate and incomplete, according to a new GAO report.
Modernization
Draft standard could improve financial reports
Agencies would use the standard report management process to generate financial data and statements including for balance sheets and statement of budgetary resources.
Digital Government
File-sharing networks used to uncover thousands of medical records
Study shows peer-to-peer programs expose personal health files, indicating the government's security of a nationwide network of health files is "fantasy."
Digital Government
E-Verify battle shifts to Senate
Omnibus spending bill would extend employment verification program through end of fiscal 2009
Ideas
Moving Tech Front and Center
The federal information technology community must still be pinching themselves to make sure they are not dreaming. Almost every administration relegated IT to the back rooms, thinking of the computer guys as propeller heads, and chief information technology officers as someone who were there to <a href="http://www.cio.com/article/20909/Federal_IT_Flunks_Out">fix the secretary's BlackBerry</a>.
Digital Government