Cybersecurity
Senators look to Amsterdam for airport technology
Computer-based auto-detection technology deployed at Amsterdam’s airport to screen passengers for explosives could be useful in the United States, according to some senators.
Digital Government
Your right to digital privacy returns to center-stage
A coalition wants to strengthen privacy protections by requiring the government to use a search warrant to seize people’s electronic records.
Digital Government
With fusion centers, privacy is a serious — and touchy — subject
Agencies involved in fusion centers say they take privacy seriously. But they're reluctant to say much else about the subject.
Digital Government
Tear down self-imposed, bureaucratic hurdles to trust
If the Justice Department's new information-sharing tool works, law enforcement agencies will be able to solve cases ranging from electronic fraud to terrorism, writes Chris Bronk.
Digital Government
What is the Navy Privacy Team reading?
Steve Muck, a member of Navy Chief Information Officer Robert Carey’s privacy team, offers these recommendations.
People
10 suggestions for improving the USA.gov feedback process
Blogger John Klossner writes that nothing productive will come of the online suggestion process until we return to a world without anonymity, and offers 10 ideas to make the process more productive, as well as more entertaining.
People
Recommended Reading: Candi on Content, down with privacy, and job interview tips.
Former govie on improving federal Web sites; Facebook CEO's argument for less privacy; tips for acing a job interview.
Cybersecurity
Google Wave rolls in with familiar tech concerns
Agencies should proceed with caution when testing the waters of Google Wave.
Digital Government
'Sexting' at work: Can employees expect privacy on government equipment?
Supreme Court gears up to decide whether review of police officer's racy text messages was an invasion of privacy.
Modernization
With lawsuit settled, timetable for release of Bush e-mails is tricky
E-mails that are presidential records from the administration George W. Bush discovered during ongoing litigation could be publicly available in five years under the Presidential Records Act.
Cybersecurity
Is it time for a national data breach notification law?
Lawmakers are again considering legislation that would create federal requirements for notifying people when their personal data is compromised.
Cybersecurity
DHS agencies don't sustain info security programs, IG says
The Homeland Security Department's agencies must improve execution of the department's information security policies on a year-round basis, procedures and practices, DHS' inspector general said.
Cybersecurity
IG faults HUD for stimulus law reporting problems
HUD falls on privacy and data security goals and misses deadlines as it tracks spending for the economic stimulus law, the IG's office says.
Modernization
VA completes first phase of daunting health records program, CIO says
Roger Baker is also restarting some halted programs and attacking processing backlog
Digital Government
Panel recommends improvements to E-Verify
A panel of experts recommends improving the E-Verify electronic employment verification system to reduce false reports and to use it in immigration reform efforts.
Modernization
DHS establishes office for intelligence-sharing centers
The Homeland Security Department will establish a new office to coordinate its involvement with intelligence-sharing centers that rely on information technology.
Digital Government
Health data breach notification rule starts Sept. 23
A new Health and Human Services Department rule that requires health care organizations to notify patients when their data is disclosed without authorization goes into effect Sept. 23.
Cybersecurity
TSA needs privacy IT tools, IG says
The TSA has made progress in implementing privacy protections, but still needs to beef up its monitoring and enforcement with automated tools, DHS Inspector General Richard Skinner says.
Digital Government