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Monday, 24th May 2004

Two Recently Released CRS Reports

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Privacy--United States
Source: The Technology and Privacy Advisory Committee
Full Text Report, Recently Released, Safeguarding Privacy in the Fight Against Terrorism
From a FCW article, "The 140-page document resulted from Congress canceling the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's controversial Terrorism Information Awareness program in 2003. TAPAC officials concluded that TIA represented "a flawed effort to achieve worthwhile ends." The report runs 140 pages.
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Congressional Research Service
Source: FPC/CRS
Two Recently Released CRS Reports
+ Greece: Threat of Terrorism and Security of the Olympics
+ Terrorist Identification, Screening, and Tracking Under Homeland Security Presidential Directive 6
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Housing--United States--Statistics
Source: U.S. Census
New, Housing Data Between the Censuses: The American Housing Survey
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Taxes--Australia
Source: Parliamentary Library, Australia
New Full Text Report, Less tax or more social spending: twenty years of opinion polling
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e-Government--United States
Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project
Use of E-government Increases 50% from 2002 to 2003, but Citizens Want Multiple Channels Available to Contact Government
"New research by the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that 97 million adult Americans, or 77% of Internet users, took advantage of e-gov in 2003, whether that meant going to government Web sites or emailing government officials. This represented a growth of 50% from 2002. At the same time, citizens who contact government said they are more likely to turn to traditional means either the telephone or in-person visits rather than the Web or email to deal with government." Download full report, by sections or just a summary of the findings.

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