Donald Gilliland reports: According to recently leaked documents, the Pennsylvania Office of Homeland Security has been tracking anti-gas drilling groups and their meetings — including a public screening of the film “Gasland,” a documentary about the environmental hazards of natural gas drilling. The office has included the information in its weekly intelligence bulletins sent to…
Category: Govt
Government Cloud Computing Privacy Recommendations Privacy Thresholds
Dan Morrill writes: The CIO Council released a number of guidelines for Privacy Thresholds that government agencies should be aware of, but in the overall viewpoint of cloud computing and privacy, many of these recommendations simply make sense for companies that also deal with confidential information. The original file was released towards the end of…
New Nevada web site lists state debtors by name and amount
Ed Vogel of the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that a new section of the state’s site at www.controller.nv.gov allows anyone to look up a resident or business by name to see how much they owe the state. The idea behind it seems to be to “name and shame” those who owe taxes to the…
NIST Finalizes Initial Set of Smart Grid Cyber Security Guidelines
Sometimes I think I posted something, only to discover it was just a delusion. 🙂 From a NIST press release last week: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued today its first Guidelines for Smart Grid Cyber Security, which includes high-level security requirements, a framework for assessing risks, an evaluation of privacy issues at personal…