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Integrating Privacy and Security: The US Government Steps Forward

Thursday, November 17th, 2011 - 9:52
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Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 09:50
  Security and privacy are often viewed as competing values, where more security means more surveillance and intrusion on individual freedoms. But in fact this is a false dichotomy; when security and privacy are designed into systems up front, they can serve both to protect people against unwarranted intrusions and also guard against other risks.

Government IT and September 11 – Recollections and Continuances

Monday, September 12th, 2011 - 12:08
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Monday, September 12, 2011 - 12:47
This past week, millions of people here and around the world have remembered the tragedy of 9/11, the bravery shown by so many, and the ways that the world and our lives have changed since that day.  So many of us have stories of where they were, what they were doing and thinking, and what happened just before and just after.

Richard Spires: Leveraging IT to Enhance DHS Mission Effectiveness

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011 - 16:06
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 - 15:47
In 2010, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued its first-ever Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR) that delineates a strategy focusing on five mission priority areas for the homeland security enterprise. “Mission one is preventing terrorism and enhancing the security of the country.

Privacy as a Key National Issue -- Implications for Government Managers

Thursday, January 20th, 2011 - 13:45
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Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 13:41
The Administration has recently built on two recent policy papers with a related action in stepping up the attention to privacy – all of which have energized privacy-minded leaders.  The first paper, a “Preliminary Staff Report” from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) (http://www.ftc.gov/os/2010/12/101201privacyreport.pdf), raised questions about whether self-regulation of privacy and data protection is sufficient; despite several prominent laws intended to protect data in key parts of our economic, (including the Priv

Weekly Round-up August 27, 2010

Friday, August 27th, 2010 - 10:21
Friday, August 27, 2010 - 10:55
Here are the articles that caught our attention this week: Gadi Ben-Yehuda

Implementing the National Health Information Technology Agenda

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 - 10:40
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 11:05
The U.S. healthcare system has a history of innovation marked by the ability to translate basic research into new clinical and therapeutic approaches that sustain human life and health. Such success brings with it significant challenges.

Profit, Privacy, and Innovation

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 - 12:31
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 - 11:31
Give us your cookies, your browser history, your torrid search queries, yearning to breathe free. (Sorry, Emma.) That's the deepest desire of online marketers, and it is thanks to them that we have so much content and so many applications available to us free, online, every day. Our data is valuable, but not in itself and not by itself, which is why (a) we give it away so easily and (b) why organizations are trying to collect as much data from as many people as they can.

Share Your Cookies!

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 - 14:40
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 15:38
I've written before that we don't pay enough attention to privacy.

The Other Side of Public = Online

Thursday, May 13th, 2010 - 13:57
Thursday, May 13, 2010 - 14:50
David Brinn’s The Transparent Society points out a central truth in the struggle between privacy and accountability: everyone wants accountability for everyone else, and privacy for themselves.  It’s the same ethic behind the Onion article: Report: 98 Percent Of U.S. Commuters Favor Public Transportation For Others.   Two recent developments showcase that tension: Sen.

Transition Idea: A National Dialogue

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 - 10:35
A number of advocacy groups that promote greater citizen engagement are calling on the next president to actively engage citizens in a national dialogue on key issues facing America.  Positive language to this effect has been included in both the Democratic and Republican party platforms and discussed by the candidates themselves.  So there’s a good chance this will be on the next Administration’s agenda.