Digital Government
NASCIO goes to Washington
Twenty-one state CIOs took their concerns about cybersecurity and identification cards to Capitol Hill.
Digital Government
Welles: When does privacy rule?
Energy Department officials may be testing an edge of the privacy issue in a proposed regulation governing access to information on any department computer.
People
ID theft stirs lawmakers
Federal lawmakers have introduced 18 bills while state legislators have offered 30 measures to deal with online threats.
Digital Government
Privacy groups question data use
A loophole that now allows federal agencies to skirt Privacy Act restrictions by using commercial data brokers should be closed, a privacy advocate tells the Senate.
People
Secure Flight hits turbulence from feds
Both the Government Accountability Office and the Homeland Security Department's inspector general criticized the program.
People
Rosenzweig to chair DHS privacy group
The Homeland Security Department's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee held its inaugural meeting today.
Cybersecurity
OMB proposes ID timetable
Under the plan, agencies would start issuing new ID cards to employees and long-term contractors in October 2006.
People
Student tracker proposed
The Education Department wants to create a federal database to track college students.
People
GAO: Secure Flight concerns remain
The Transportation Security Administration has made a lot of progress, but more remains before August launch.
People
IG: TSA let down privacy guard
Policies were not enforced during the 2004 transfer of passenger data.
Cybersecurity
GAO: SEC systems vulnerable to attack
GAO finds that the SEC's computer networks remain vulnerable to hacking because of a lack of a comprehensive security program.
People
GAO: Improve SEVIS metrics
DHS should formally monitor key information about system availability for the student-tracking system, GAO says.
Digital Government
SRA launches privacy program
It's designed to build privacy in with security right from the start.
People
Web satisfaction dips
Federal sites with declining satisfaction outnumbered those with rising scores.
People
E-filing surges
IRS commissioner says the majority of individual returns in 2005 will be filed electronically.
Cybersecurity