Complete references and links for Identity theft blog

Here are the references and links to additional resources that my have been left out of my post yesterday. Identity Theft Resources http://www.legalstoc.com/2009/01/07/ftc-to-congress-enact-standards-to-reduce-identity-theft/?http://www.howtostopidentitytheftnow.comwww.creditcards.comwww.consumer.gov/idthefthttp://www.cstb.org/web/project_authenticationhttp://www.humanresources.org/media/resources/resource_209.pdfhttp://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1082290.1082305http://iospress.metapress.com/content/frcjv8nfemh5dxc9/http://www.anti-phishing.org/http://www.verisign.com/products-services/index.htmlhttp://web.njit.edu/~bieber/CIS677F04/stafford-spyware-cais2004.pdfhttp://theprivacyplace.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/tr-2006-18u.pdfhttp://www.springerlink.com/content/w7877437n43u72hq/http://www.loms-itea.org/deliverables/LOMS_D6.3_v1.0.pdfhttp://webpages.cs.luc.edu/~pld/courses/ethics/spr07/rfid/eckfeldt.pdfhttp://www.govtech.com/gt/418253http://www.experian.com/http://www.transunion.com/http://www.equifax.com References Buell, D. & Sandhu, R. (2003). Identity management. IEEE Computer Society, 1-3. Milne, G. R. (2003). How well do consumers protect themselves from identity theft? The Journal of Consumer Affairs, (37)Read… Read more »

Weekly Round-up: October 15, 2010

Gadi Ben-Yehuda Salon interviews Steven Johnson, the author of “Where Good Ideas Come From,” who argues that what we need to focus on is making incremental changes rather than trying to achieve singular epiphanies or game-changing brakthroughs. Great advice for career govvies! Mashable explores the difference between facebook and twitter, saying that the former isRead… Read more »

Pat Sajak on Fed Voting Rights

So I know I rarely post here anymore, but this link was too epic to let slide: http://gawker.com/5663101/pat-sajaks-coming-to-take-your-vote-away Wherein you find one Pat Sajak questioning whether Feds should be eligible for the vote or even some lovely parting gifts. None of my family and friends is allowed to appear on Wheel of Fortune. Same goesRead… Read more »

Facebook Public Records Update

I’d like to continue on Scott Horvath’s blog post about Facebook’s “Download Your Data” with a quick analysis from a public records retention viewpoint. Having researched this issue thoroughly in the past and blogging “Apps.gov Needs to Carry the Public Records Torch” on GovLoop, I keep a close eye on this. For background, agencies nationwideRead… Read more »

How Do Rocket Scientists Learn? (aka, knowledge management lessons learned at Goddard, NASA)

Originally posted at my blog: http://wethegoverati.wordpress.com Rocket scientists, software developers, systems engineers, and all the other people that work at Goddard helping us better understand the earth and space are smart. That’s a given. But how do they improve their practice, learn from each other, and continue to improve on overwhelmingly complex tasks? In aRead… Read more »

What We Need in an Office

This week, my office is moving to a new building a few blocks away. We’ve all been busy packing up, throwing things away, and smacking our foreheads at some of the things we’ve been finding tucked away in file cabinets and the bottoms of desk drawers. What I noticed, however, was how little I trulyRead… Read more »

A Cloudy Forecast-IT Giants Learn how to Lobby DC

EMC government cloud expert Tim Harder takes a look at contracting for cloud services in the right way- one that creates a successful partnership between government and integrator. Red More at: http://www.GovCloudTalk.com

NASA Reverses Direction to Help Rescue Chilean Miners

In watching the emotional coverage of the Chilean miner rescue last night, my ears perked up when I heard one news anchor say, “…and NASA played a key role in helping to save these guys.” So I did a quick Google search and found a great blog post by Examiner astronomer Paul Heckert: “How NASARead… Read more »

The UK Foreign Office launches a travel information API

I’ve said before on this blog (as the sole avid reader will remember) that the mantra for what the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is trying to do digitally is distribution, not destination. We’re not trying to create a network of must-visit websites – experience tells us that government websites tend not to work like that,Read… Read more »

Today at 2EST – GL Training – Part 2 Soc Media Best Practice

I’ve seen the slides and they rock…Pretty stoked for Part 2 of the GovLoop Social Media Training – Case Studies and Best Practices Should be fun…We have Kay Morrison from EPA and Kristy Fifelski of City of Reno and Kent Cunningham of Microsoft. Plus as always…rapid fire Q&A to answer all your questions. Almost 600Read… Read more »

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