200510171930 – Depository Library Council – GODORT Meeting
200510171930 FDLP DLC GODORT Secrecy, Privacy, and FOIA: Conflicts and Consistencies Speakers: Bob Gellman (BG), Meredith Fuchs (MF), and Patrice McDermott (PM). Download an audio file of this session 0:00:00 Arlene Weible introduces program 0:01:30 Vicki Phillips, Chair Nominating Committee: Call to service 0:05:00 John Phillips, Chair Awards Committee: All nominations due in December 0:08:30 Aimee Quinn introduces speakers 0:13:45 Bob Gelman (BG) "Conflicts" between privacy and FOIA Enumerates "Principles of fair information practices" and notes how each is not in conflict with privacy concerns, except for "finality" which is only partly in conflict 0:22:30 2. Libraries adamant about protecting use records, but demand openness in other agency arenas. Bookstores also demonstrate cognitive dissonance toward commercial ends. 0:30:00 Meredith Fuchs (MF), National Security Archives Continue reading
200510160830 – Depository Library Council – New Attendees Orientation
download audio file of this session 0:00:00 Barbie Selby introduces GPO staff. Audience introductions follow. 0:12:00 Arlene Weible talks about GODORT. 0:22:00 Barbie Selby talks about DLC and the Visioning statement, logistics of the schedule. Questions follow. Continue reading
Fall 2005 Depository Library Council audio and notes on the way [update]
I'm getting audio files and their descriptions from the Fall 2005 DLC up and running. You can download the following PRETTY ROUGH (i.e., wear headphones, turn up the volume a little, and be prepared to block out some background noise), PRETTY LARGE (3-11 meg), VERY UNOFFICIAL mp3 files:
Continue readingGAO report finds privacy compliance “haphazard”
GAO: Privacy issues remain in data mining programs When visiting an agency Web site, personal information may be collected and mined, a recent GAO report found. Some agencies comply with federal privacy regulations, but some, like the General Services Administration claim that the Privacy Act doesn’t apply to its system and that it has taken "adequate security measures."
A sampling of data mining programs in several federal agencies has found that implementing privacy and security measures is haphazard, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office. Of five data mining programs at five different agencies, “none followed all key procedures†for privacy and security measures, GAO said. The report, titled “Data Mining: Agencies Have Taken Key Steps to Protect Privacy in Selected Efforts, but Significant Compliance Issues Remain,†(PDF) examined programs at the Small Business Administration, the Agriculture Department’s Risk Management Agency, the IRS, the State Department and the FBI. Continue reading
BIA has no Web site
It's true! The Bureau of Indian Affairs Web site and mail servers have been "made temporarily unavailable due to the Cobell Litigation. Please continue to check from time to time. We have no estimate on when authorization will be given to reactivate these sites." According to "Interior Monologue," by Meghann Farnsworth in the September/October 2005 Issue of Mother Jones, the employees of BIA have had no web access and no email. A Judge revoked the agency's internet privileges in response to the agency's gross mismanagement of Indian land trust records and funds.
The BIA has been stuck in this techno-logical time warp since 2001, when the federal judge overseeing Cobell v. Norton punished the bureau for failing to safeguard its Indian land trust records. Court-appointed experts had hacked into the bureau's files, concluding that "protecting trust funds is not now, and has never been, a 'priority.'" In response, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth revoked the BIA's Internet privileges until it cleaned up its act. Continue reading