Cybersecurity

Audit: CBP weak on IT security

U.S. Customs and Border Protection's information technology security is still a problem, according to a new audit.

Digital Government

Offered by the Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown University

Congress and Homeland Security - Authorizations, appropriations, and oversight

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GAO: Bank Secrecy Act data at risk of disclosure

Report says Treasury must do more to restrict unauthorized access to sensitive information.

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Agencies struggling to make connections online

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Making Great Government Web sites

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Daschle received speaking fees from groups opposing patient privacy

Nominee for HHS secretary tied to a health data company and association that belong to a group opposing privacy protections in economic stimulus bill.

People

White House launches site on economic effort

The Web site provides transparency and allows the public to interact with administration as it launches plans aimed at supporting the middle class and economic recovery.

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Stimulus bill has $250m for fusion centers

The Senate measure would upgrade state and local information-sharing centers.

Ideas

Obama's BlackBerry Addiction Explained

Salon.com has a Q&A with Dalton Conley, chair of the sociology department at New York University and author of the new book, "Elsewhere U.S.A.," which, Salon.com explains, "describes not only the rise of the familiar texting, instant messaging, e-mailing culture that has transformed the old 9-to-5 into the 24/7, but the underlying cultural and economic factors driving even high-paid workers to feel like they should be working more hours."

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Silver Oak Leaves for Schlosser

Lisa Schlosser, who runs the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Information Collection and serves as a reservist with the Amy's 1st Information Operations outfit at Ft. Belvoir, Va., is up for promotion to lieutenant colonel.