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More on the cornfest. I avoided the butter, but did speak to a couple of the students who were seeking college funds. One had her eyes on Michigan State while the other is seemingly UC-Berkeley bound.
Daily Archives: August 20, 2005
IRS: 4.6 Billion Disclosures of Tax Return Information in 2004
The report reveals that the IRS made 4.6 billion disclosures of tax return information to federal and state agencies. Here are the Top 5 recipients of taxpayer information:
Request Your Right to Travel Records from the TSA
In direct violation of the Privacy Act, TSA has collected over 100 million records from commercial data providers to test Secure Flight. If your records are contained in this database, you have a right to obtain them. What would happen if thousands of people requested their TSA travel records every day?
You can request your travel and commercial records under the Privacy Act, but you better do it before TSA destroys the information. TSA spokeswoman Deirdre O’Sullivan told Wired News that the TSA has only destroyed some passenger name records (PNR) from airlines and travel agents, but not information TSA gathered from commercial data bases. You can request both your PNR and commercial data with a Privacy Act request.
More on Municipal WiFi – Intel
Intel along with several large firms announced a project with communities around the world to make municipal WiFi a reality:
Cleveland, Ohio; Corpus Christi, Texas; Philadelphia; Portland, Ore.; Duesseldorf, Germany; Jerusalem, Israel; Taipei, Taiwan, are among the urban communities participating in Intel’s project. Other participants are Mangaratiba, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Gyor, Hungary; Principality of Monaco; Seoul, South Korea; Osaka, Japan; and Westminster in London.