Private-Sector Privacy Problems: gmail edition
In Google we trust? Think again, by Joe Newman, Public Citizen (October 21, 2009).
A Gmail user who did nothing wrong had his or her account shut down because of [a] bank’s monumental screw up. And Google, a company that basically prints its own cash, didn’t lift a finger to protect the rights of one of its users.Continue reading
States urged to create data catalogs
States urged to create data catalogs, by Joab Jackson, Federal Computer Week (Oct 07, 2009).
Federal agencies shouldn't be the only ones to open their data for the public — states and local governments should also be ramping up efforts to become more transparent, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) contends in a newly published report. The first thing a state should do is create a one-stop portal, or data catalog, for all its publicly-accessible data, along the lines of the White House's Data.Gov , the report states.Continue reading
Docs for Digital Democracy (ARL interim summary)
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released the following 10-page paper: Documents for Digital Democracy: A Model for the Federal Depository Library Program in the 21st Century, Interim Summary, prepared by Ithaka S + R It is the top link at http://www.arl.org/pp/access/fdlp/index.shtml Continue reading
Digital Deposit
This page is to collect information on digital deposit. Continue reading
Creating Law.Gov
Law.Gov: America's Operating System, Open Source, by Carl Malamud, O'Reilly Radar (Oct 15, 2009).
Public.Resource.Org is very pleased to announce that we're going to be working with a distinguished group of colleagues from across the country to create a solid business plan, technical specs, and enabling legislation for the federal government to create Law.Gov. We envision Law.Gov as a distributed, open source, authenticated registry and repository of all primary legal materials in the United States. More details on the effort are available on our Law.Gov page.Continue reading