The Department of Homeland Security’s privacy board chose as its chairman Paul Rosenzweig, a conservative lawyer best known in technology circles for his defense of the Pentagon’s Total Information Awareness project. Bowing to privacy concerns, Congress pulled the plug on the program two years ago.
Nuala O’Connor Kelly, the department’s chief privacy officer, nominated Rosenzweig for the job during the group’s first meeting in a downtown hotel here. Rosenzweig is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a former Justice Department trial attorney.
Monthly Archives: April 2005
Why is Tommy Thompson Sad?
Finally, Thompson voiced his regret just one day after Medicare’s trustees announced that the drug benefit by itself has an unfunded liability 60 percent larger than that of the entire Social Security program. (The unfunded liability for all of Medicare is nearly six times that of Social Security.) Medicare’s financial outlook has grown so dire that its two public trustees broke with the trustees who are members of Bush’s Cabinet to say that it is in far worse shape that Social Security.
BBC Reith Lectures 2005: The Triumph of Technology
MP3 audio files & transcripts (how 21st century!) of this excellent series:
- Technology will determine the future of the human race
- Collaboration
- Innovation & Management
- Nanotechnology & Nanoscience
- Risk & Responsibility
Colorado Municipal WiFi
The DenverChannel writes that the Colorado senate is voting on a bill that would support local municipal wifi…. (still no wifi at the Madison airport…)
The Death of the Music CD
Mark Cuban on the death of the music cd.
Election Results
The Dane County Clerk’s website includes election results from races around the county. Wispolitics has statewide results here.
Vint Cerf on the Internet’s next step
“My initial job was getting IP on everything,” Cerf said. That’s been done by now. IP is on every device from the smallest handheld to the largest supercomputer.
“Now we need IP under everything,” he added. By this he meant that now that the computers are all connected, we need to make sure that every device can use and access any service or product available to any one device.
Cartago, Costa Rica VR Scene
John Riley posted a very nice Quicktime VR Scene from Cartago, Costa Rica.
Feingold Funding Political Travels with a Leadership PAC
U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, whose name has become synonymous with campaign finance reform, is raising both his profile and thousands of dollars with his new leadership political action committee.
Feingold, D-Wis., is using the PAC to fund political travel, like his high-profile trip to Alabama last week, and to make contributions to fellow Democrats as he tries to help the party regain the Senate next year.
Eizenstat to speak at the UW 4.12
Stuart E. Eizenstat, former U.S. ambassador to the European Union, will give a pair of talks on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on Tuesday, April 12.
Eizenstat will discuss his book, “Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor and the Unfinished Business of World War II,” in Room 7200 at the UW Law School at 1:30 p.m.
Then, at 3 p.m., he will speak on “Transatlantic Relations in the Second Bush Term,” at the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. Eizenstat’s talks, which are free and open to the public, are sponsored by the UW-Madison’s European Union Center, in collaboration with the Office of the Dean of International Studies.