Digital Government

Privacy shifting toward legislation

In less than three months, more than 40 bills dealing with privacy have been introduced in Congress

Digital Government

Cookies persist on federal sites

Agencies continue to employ 'persistent cookies' to monitor their Web page visitors

Digital Government

Advocates call for privacy chief

Privacy advocates are calling on OMB to name a federal leader for privacy issues

People

Florida wants privacy czar

State officials would like to have one person in charge of keeping the personal information of Web users private

People

Bush won't have privacy czar

Position of chief counselor for privacy expired with the Clinton administration

People

Bush wants fast start on e-gov

President doubles request for first year of egov fund to move swiftly on privacy and security matters

Digital Government

The Circuit

While the Justice Department presses Microsoft Corp. on antitrust charges here at home, the German government is hitting the software giant for being a 'back door' to National Security Agency

People

Courts hear online records debate

Officials mull how to balance privacy of court records with right to access them

Digital Government

Delivering the goods online

New USPS privacy officer wants public to 'feel comfortable' sending information

Digital Government

Who reigns in 'Wild West' Web?

'Government may not have the biggest guns' when it comes to maintaining law and order

Digital Government

Privacy at the crossroads

Americans lack the privacy protections they think they should have.

People

Privacy vs. access

Courts debate online access to case files

Digital Government

DOT complying with cookie rules

Agency cleans up Web sites found to be using unauthorized persistent cookies

Digital Government

Lockheed deal brings tracking headquarters into states

A new facility for tracking wayward laptop computers will be based out of Gaithersburg, Md., the first U.S. center for Computrace software.

People

Courts mull comments on Internet filing

The public gives mixed reviews to creating electronic case files and providing access via the Internet

Digital Government

Ashcroft's privacy quest

Attorney General seen as protector of individual erights

Digital Government

Better health care sought in data

Pilot project data will be used to improve care throughout the Indian Health Service

People

Crossed wires

Just as the business of electronic government is coming into its own, President Bush may have unintentionally set it back about eight years.

People

Prison keeps eye on inmate computer use

A Florida state prison installed a surveillance software program that lets an administrator using one screen monitor a dozen computers in real time

People

Tackling privacy, security on the Web

Security and privacy are enablers of -- and stumbling blocks for -- e-government