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Happy Data Privacy Day!
Today, January 28, the United States, Canada, and 27 European countries will celebrate Data Privacy Day together for the second time. Designed to raise awareness and generate discussion about data...
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Big Brother with Big Ears, In China
Listening Ears near Greatstone-on-Sea, Kent, Great Britain. These are concrete listening ears built for the war. Aeroplanes flying across the channel could be heard by observers positioned near these...
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Big Brother with Big Ears, In China
Listening Ears near Greatstone-on-Sea, Kent, Great Britain. These are concrete listening ears built for the war. Aeroplanes flying across the channel could be heard by observers positioned near these...
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Horn v. Huddle: A Cable, A Table, and Something in the Middle?
I did not make up that title — just tweaked it from the Court of Appeals decision on the Horn v. Huddle case heard before ROGERS, BROWN and GRIFFITH, Circuit Judges in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...
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Google Buzz: Think Before You Click
A lot of virtual ink has been spilled on Google Buzz since its rollout last week especially relating to privacy issues. Here is the Google team’s recent take: Millions of Buzz users, and improvements...
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In which politicians lament over our dead diplomats — also fund-raises over...
Perhaps Mitt really is a nice, rich guy who shops at Costco. That does not offend me; but this one does. There are way too many “wonderfuls” here to make it sound authentic. I do not/not like it. He...
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US Embassy Manila: George Anikow, Diplomatic Spouse Killed in Early Morning...
Citing the Information Officer of the US Embassy in Manila Tina Malone, Rappler.com reported that the husband of an American Embassy employee was killed in Makati City, in the Philippines on Saturday,...
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US Embassies Cyprus & Greece: Federal Benefits Recipients at Risk of Identity...
You’ve heard about the financial crisis roiling the tiny Mediterranean island of Cyprus. The €10 billion bailout announced recently is not going to be the end of it. According to The Telegraph,...
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Take Time Today to Tell Your Senators to #StopCISPA
Via the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Click on the image below to use EFF’s automated system to email your senators. Sunlight Foundation shows that backers of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and...
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State Dept refused to name its SGEs because of reasons #1, #2, #3, #4 and …...
– Domani Spero Last week, ProPublica posted this: Who Are State Dept’s 100 “Special Government Employees”? It Won’t Say. We blogged about it here: Who Are State Dept’s 100 “Special Government...
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Former Secretary Clinton talks about her state.gov private emails
Posted: 01:11 am EDT Excerpt from the transcript of Hillary Clinton’s remarks on the email controversy swirling about via Time’s @ZekeJMiller: There are four things I want the public to know. First,...
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1) More Systems Compromised in #OPMHack, 2) A Love Letter to Hackers, and 3)...
Posted: 3:29 am EDT On June 4, OPM released a statement on “a cybersecurity incident” that potentially affected personnel data of current and former federal employees, including personally...
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Big Brother with Big Ears, In China
Listening Ears near Greatstone-on-Sea, Kent, Great Britain. These are concrete listening ears built for the war. Aeroplanes flying across the channel could be heard by observers positioned near these...
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Big Brother with Big Ears, In China
Listening Ears near Greatstone-on-Sea, Kent, Great Britain. These are concrete listening ears built for the war. Aeroplanes flying across the channel could be heard by observers positioned near these...
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The State Dept’s 360 Degree Feedback as Placement Tool, and Probably, a...
Posted: 2:05 am EDT We have originally written about the 360 degree feedback in 2008 as it started gaining popularity within the State Department. (see Sexing up the 360-Degree Feedback, Revisited). We...
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When the Boss Is Last to Know: Chaffetz Snoops at the Secret Service
Posted: 1:06 pm EDT The Department of Homeland Security Inspector General has completed its independent investigation into allegations that one or more Secret Service agents improperly accessed...
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OPM Data Breach Victims Get New Verification Site Through DOD, ID Protection...
Posted: 1:23 am EDT OPM launches self-check website for hack victims: https://t.co/x7pwhPqe4k pic.twitter.com/AUrubfyDeh — The Hill (@thehill) December 2, 2015 Just in: @USOPM launches website for...
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Foreign Service Members Offer Candid Views of @StateDept Mental Health...
Posted: 3:04 am EDT The January issue of the Foreign Service Journal is out. The issue is focused on mental health care for the Foreign Service. Dr. Samuel Thielman, a recently retired regional...
View Article@StateDept Launches New System of Records to Capture All Emails — Hunting For...
Posted: 1:55 am ET Follow @Diplopundit We just stumbled into a December 12, 2017 announcement on the Federal Register about a “New System of Records” signed by Mary R. Avery, the Senior Agency...
View ArticleBurn Bag: Sharing COVID-Positive Employees’ Information May be Prohibited...
Via Burn Bag: “The Department has numerous required trainings for supervisors. Yet, some continue to disregard them. This behavior can create costly lessons for the Department, especially when it...
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