Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: federal_agencies_legislative Image Caption: Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Before it left for its summer recess, the Senate confirmed four nominees to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), but failed to confirm a committee chairman, in a move that could hobble the board’s work. Congress…
Senate confirms privacy oversight board nominees, leaves out chairman
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: federal_agencies_legislative Image Caption: Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Before it left for its summer recess, the Senate confirmed four nominees to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), but failed to confirm a committee chairman in a move that hobbles the board’s work. Congress created…
Criminal Actions by your government or your lack of oversight of the government is this your fault?
Criminal Actions by your government or your lack of oversight of the government is this your fault (I say yes to both!) Read more…. View full post on Anonymous Daily
3 senators introduce a bill for oversight of NYPD
Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. — Three Democratic state senators say an independent inspector should oversee the New York City Police Department after what they say are abuses including the widespread surveillance of Muslims and the crackdown on Occupy Wall Street protesters. The bill comes in the wake of a series…
Android Malware Soars Due to Lack of Google Oversight, Says Juniper
Like us on Facebook Despite this, Juniper says Android is not necessarily an inherently less secure platform, but suffers instead from the absence of a gatekeeping mechanism: “The main reason for the malware epidemic on Android is because of different approaches that Apple and Google take to police their application…
Control room engineer says Iran’s glitch-prone nuclear reactor a product of poor oversight
WASHINGTON – A Russian engineer who worked on Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant during the final stages of construction says inexperienced workers, poor oversight and layers of bureaucracy contributed to a rash of equipment failures that delayed the reactor’s startup for almost a year. A U.S. expert said the engineer’s…