Home » Posts tagged 'less_access' (Page 7)
Tag Archives: less_access
Threats to Government Data
Researchers at the Brookings Institution are monitoring the Trump administration’s management of federal government data sources. Threats to Government Data Are Threats to Democracy, by Andre Perry and Katherine Guyot, The Brookings Institution. Government Executive (February 8, 2018). Census. The Census Bureau has canceled crucial preparations for the upcoming decennial census because of persistent underfunding […]
MSU scholars find $21 trillion in unauthorized government spending. Agencies disable links to key documents
I visited the MSU Today news site for the headline about massive unauthorized spending happening at the Department of Defense and Housing and Urban Development. That in and of itself was troubling. But what really drew my attention was in the 2nd paragraph where it stated that the agencies’ Inspector Generals(!) — which are supposed […]
Many Federal Websites Again Fail to Meet Basic Standards for Speed and Security
About 91 percent of federal websites failed at least one of the government and industry standards for design and development in the latest test by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). The metrics analyzed included an assessment of speed, accessibility and security. Benchmarking U.S. Government Websites [Summary], by Daniel Castro, Galia Nurko, and Alan […]
Treasury Department scrubs paper from website
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the Treasury Department removed from its website a 2012 technical paper that contradicts the statements that the Treasury Secretary has been making about corporate tax cuts. Rubin, Richard. (2017, Sep 28). Treasury removes paper at odds with Mnuchin's take on corporate-tax cut's winners. Wall Street Journal. The […]
Suggestions for Revisions to Chapter 5 of the Title 44 Bill
January 19, 2018 / Leave a comment
The draft bill to reform Title 44 of the U.S. Code provides some much needed improvements over the current law. It explicitly requires GPO to follow existing privacy laws and would, for the first time, legally require GPO to preserve digital government information. It also removes the provision that allows GPO to charge for online […]
Continue Reading →