The FBI noted recently that it paid more than $1 million to hack the security system on an IPhone, as reported by Reuters, but that nothing of significance it sought was found there. Whether to believe the report of the cost, and that nothing of significance toward its investigation was found are both doubtful, but that’s just me being me, perhaps, on a Friday.
A passcode worth more than a $1 million is something else to know. My phone just got a whole lot more valuable to me. Thanks!
Archive and record preservationists work diligently at making sure history is accurately undisturbed, but Google received yet another lesson from the French recently about how disturbing unfettered access to the past can be.
Once again the French court is insisting on enforcement of the “right to be forgotten” tenet in European privacy law and that it be applied globally, and issued fines for noncompliance. NYTimes Story
How ironic when so many people are clamoring for the attention of followers and likes that there are those who want to be forgotten, or at least some aspect of their former selves.
Ah, if we could all erase those embarrassing 2nd grade photographs and 8-year-old recital moments from everyone’s family memories. How about the teenage arrests for loud parties or drunken behavior, or how about horrific treatment of former spouses or elderly neighbors. Why maintain accountability at all? We’ve all been above average since birth. No growth or change required!
The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 653, “The FOIA Improvement Act,” to much self-praise Tuesday, which now moves on to the Senate. But the revisions of format and timeliness missed the mark of transparency for government information release, so coyly noted in a lengthy piece in the New York Times on Monday.
A better solution would be for government to automatically disclose information online before it was requested, paraphrasing Prof. Margaret B. Kwoka of the University of Denver, as quoted in the New York Times’ story on Monday.
Publish government information without request…A solution long advocated by this blogger, and the principle of public notice generally. Thank you! If only the House and Senate would notice.
Maine may be leading the way in making the public notice some aspects of food chain data that previously was hard to follow — an
d this “boat to plate” project is about to make waves. A $175,000 federal government grant award will help the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland develop a tool that tracks fish caught along the coast as it is sold and moved to supermarkets and restaurants where customers can scan barcodes to learn who caught the product, where and when.
According to a May 2015 Associate Press article this is the latest in food traceability that helps customers know the origins of food as it moves through world markets.
Residents of Indiana may not know the origin of “hoosiers” but they do know about their public notice advertisements.
A Hoosier State Press Association report in August 2014 of Hoosier Attitudes on Public Notice, Newspaper Readership and Election Information Systems says that more than 80% of the 1,000 respondents polled could recall the contents of a legal ad they remembered reading.
More than 60% of those polled said they thought government should be required to public legal notices, even though it costs taxpayers dollars each year.
The polling included both telephone and online respondents, and was conducted by American Opinion Research, Princeton, NJ, during July 2014.
I’ve been surfing the web instead of blogging, and my travels took me all over the world. Now I’m back and I wonder what I missed during the long trip away. Attached are some websites I thought were interesting or useful, but I bet you have faves for web public notice. You will see that I’m still in the process of giving each site a proper identification, but we all know how long it takes to edit our pics after a really great trip..I couldn’t wait to share. Now it’s your turn. Give me the nickel tour of your best visits ever! Biblio URLs
Hackers reportedly took over the front page of the Lebanese newspaper Al Mustaqbal last week in order to publish names and addresses, along with ages and passport pictures, of 167 witnesses in a United Nations-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
How sad that the hackers felt the need to hijack the website of anyone in order to post this information, if that was their sole intent.
How interesting that the hackers thought the front page of a news organization was the best location for such a deed. As hobbled as news organizations are now by shaky business models, competition and pundits’ jibes, newspapers still seem to be the place to grab attention when social unrest needs a sure-bet platform.
Public notices carried in the Lincoln Journal Star on April 4, 2013, page C6, included a Tribal Court summons, a half dozen trustee’s sales, and a Statewide One-call Notification Center board of directors agenda for April 10.
That’s right, the agenda was detailed with 18 items including item 17. a To Be Determined (TBD) for the next meeting date and place, as well as 18. Adjournment. How refreshing to see that Susan, Lance and Nathan will provide reports about conferences and training sessions. John will report on the policy committee work, and Jill will provide updates on outreach programs.
No hiding under bureaucratic liaisons here, no sir.
There was more but I’ve moved on to reading in detail about the upcoming board of directors meeting for the Nebraska Public Power District.
I feel like I could move in and be up and current with the government scene in moments.
As newspapers face the continuing burden of archiving print editions of their products, resource management is always looking for low cost solutions.
When a query was posted to the newslib listserv about what might be the best way to go right now, the following response was posted by Linda Deitch, Archive and Collections Manager, The Columbus Dispatch Library, Columbus, Ohio, USA
“[We] purchase archival-quality storage boxes for each month of the paper, store the daily papers flat in the boxes, and ship them on a regular basis to offsite secure storage.
“Some reasons for doing so:
Snaps for Ms Deitch! And many thanks into the future…
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