Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder today announced two major steps in their efforts to implement reforms to enhance information sharing among federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies and safeguard sensitive information used by the government—designed to expand joint capabilities to protect the United States from…
Category: Govt
TSA puts employees linked to security manual fiasco on leave
The Associated Press is reporting that some Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees have been put on leave after the recent fiasco where an inadequately redacted copy of their Screening Management Standard Operating Procedures manual was available on the web. Simply by clicking on the redacted material clicking “cut,” one could unredact the sensitive material. Although…
White House transparency initiative
David L. Sobel comments: The Obama Administration today issued its long-awaited Open Government Directive (OGD), a blueprint for transparency that the President promised on January 21, his first full day in office. The OGD is “intended to direct executive departments and agencies to take specific actions to implement the principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration”…
Police pledge on desal privacy breach
In a “Oops, our draft didn’t mean what it said” moment, Victoria Police are now backing away as rapidly as they can from a memorandum that appeared to let them turn over personal information on protesters to a non-governmental entity: Victoria Police say privacy laws prevent them from releasing private information about opponents of Victoria’s…