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INTRODUCTION I. TECHNOLOGY AND NOTICE-AND-COMMENT RULEMAKING II. THE NEW WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY-ENABLED COMMENTS A. Three Types of Technology-Enabled Comments 1. Mass Comments 2. Malattributed Comments 3. Computer-Generated Comments B. Challenges [...]

[W]hat exists of the right of access if it extends only to those who can squeen through the door? (1) INTRODUCTION I. THE COSTS OF PUBLIC ACCESS A. THE MARGINAL [...]

Thanks to the rise of computer storage technologies and the internet, federal courts were able to move from paper records to electronic filing systems beginning in the 1980s. Public Access [...]

The open access (OA) movement is one of the most exciting trends in information access and distribution today. It consists of a loose confederation of scholars, researchers, librarians, publishers, and [...]

If you are a health care vendor, financial or retail service provider, or federal government contractor, additional compliance responsibilities are on your horizon. In response to the unprecedented growth of [...]

The FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau this week announced that the launch of the National Lifeline Eligibility Verifier for the six initial states would be postponed until early 2018. It had [...]

I. Introduction II. Share-in-Savings Contracting A. Background B. Energy Savings Performance Contracts C. Education Case Study D. Federal Information Technology Purchases 1. E-Government Act of 2002 2. Office of Management [...]

I. INTRODUCTION There can be fewer subjects less inviting on their face than a discussion of legal bibliographical practice. Citation itself is neither scholarship nor analysis but is the mere [...]

MARY MOSQUERA GCN STAFF THE RECENT THEFT OF DATA on 26.5 million veterans sends agencies a chilling message: Lock down your own data security and privacy policies immediately or you […]

Federal agencies spend billions of dollars annually on information technology. (1) Increasingly, agencies are seeking to use performance-based contracting methods, which allow government contractors to design the best solutions for [...]

Abstract The Acquisition Systems Improvement Act (ASIA), H.R. 4228 (2004) and H.R. 2067 (2005), is proposed congressional legislation to further enhance previous governmental contract reforms. The content of this bill [...]

The E-Government Act of 2002 aims to enable the federal government to take full advantage of the Internet and other information technologies. Privacy remains a concern of many.

The Government Accountability Office said in report issued this week that it found 'persistent weaknesses' in how 24 federal government agencies applied information security policies and practices. It recommended that [...]

A new report from the Government Accountability Office takes the Department of Homeland Security to task for failing to develop and implement a strategy to address cybersecurity risks to federal [...]

In information security, the scale of what happened two decades ago seems almost quaint, compared to the current state of affairs. Twenty years ago, the US-CERT listed 132 incidents of [...]

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) highlighted the successes of HHS's compliance with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA) [...]

According to the federal government's latest cybersecurity report card, the U.S. Department of Defense--the organization executing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan--fails. So does the State Department, the agency negotiating [...]

Pity the poor Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme. Conceived as a way to provide independent evaluation of security products against a set of standard criteria that could be accepted […]

Agencies Haven't Been Ignoring security in recent years, but while they focused on protecting the highest-risk areas, many left personal data in peril. Federal officials said agencies did not pay […]

BACK IN MARCH, IT HAPPENED AGAIN. The House Government Reform Committee issued its annual security report card per the Federal Information Security Management Act. And for the fifth straight year, […]

John Streufert, director of federal network resilience at the Department of Homeland Security, said this week that federal government costs for complying with the 2002 Federal Information Security Management Act [...]

A data breach at a major security clearance investigator has led federal agencies to suspend their work with the firm and launch an investigation. U.S. Investigations Services LLC discovered the [...]

A Defense Department authorization bill that is almost certain to reach the Senate floor after the August recess is being eyed as a possible vehicle for cybersecurity legislation. Sen. Tom [...]

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee this week cleared two bills designed to enhance cybersecurity, while Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D., Del.) said the panel still had more [...]