Alison Young reports: Members of Congress are calling on the Transportation Security Administration to release inspection reports that would show whether airport X-ray machines that screen passengers and bags are regularly meeting requirements to emit only low levels of radiation. The calls by lawmakers came after the TSA didn’t respond to USA TODAY’s repeated requests…
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FTC Issues National Do Not Call Registry Data Book for Fiscal Year 2010
The FTC today issued the National Do Not Call Registry Data Book for Fiscal Year 2010, which can be found on the FTC website (pdf). In its second year of publication, the Data Book contains a wealth of information about the Registry for FY 2010, including: The number of active registrations and consumer complaint figures since the…
Cablegate: It’s not really about the cables
Because I haven’t really blogged about Cablegate, let me make a few points — knowing that I will almost certainly irritate the hell out of some people I truly respect by the time I’m done: WikiLeaks Didn’t Steal the Documents I find it somewhat mind-boggling how many governmental and non-governmental folks seem to equate the…
Location matters up in the cloud – but so does integrity and politics
Michael Geist writes: … After Amazon pulled the plug, Wikileaks quickly shifted to a European host, demonstrating how easily sites can shift from one cloud provider to another. Although it seems counter-intuitive to consider the physical location of cloud computing equipment when discussing services that by their very definition operate across borders in the “cloud”,…