One Louisiana parish turns a formerly fee-based online marriage index into a free service. Read the...
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You’re probably using the fabulous Google Alerts service if you track the appearance of keywords on websites or in the news. The ever inventive folks at Google have just added the ability for you to get notified when your keywords...
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The medical records of unidentified prisoners and the identities of prison medical workers in disciplinary records are public records, according to the Washington State Supreme Court, in a case brought by a prison newspaper. Read the...
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The U.S. Department of Defense has established a website to enable compliance with the Service Members’ Civil Relief Act which, with a last name and social security number, will confirm whether an individual is on active duty with the U.S....
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The Federal government may, once again, reach out to private companies — ChoicePoint and LexisNexis, the large data brokers, to verify personal information that the government needs but doesn’t have the means to gather. While the data brokers are under...
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Consumer Reports has digested the many health information sites on the Internet and reduced the list to the top 20 reliable...
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The Motley Fool assesses ChoicePoint’s financials and finds, all in all, the company isn’t doing too bad. Litigation risk certainly exists. Regulatory risk, too. But I’d submit that any company that can, in the face of such troubles, still produce...
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Catch the webcast of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing, Data Security: The Discussion Draft of Data Protection Legislation, this Thursday at 10am. I assume that’s D.C. time. The Washington-centric folks don’t say. The Hearing web page...
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It seems that everytime EPIC concocts a medicinal potion to treat threats to privacy there is a legislator standing by to ensure that it is broadly disseminated. The current danger: online sales of cell phone call logs. Charles Schumer is...
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Utah’s Government Records Access Management Task Force (GRAMA) is discovering the tortuous variables presented in redacting information from public records. The task force is conducting a series of meetings. The issues are reported in this...
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