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NewsForeign countries want American UAV secrets
Foreign entities looking for information on advanced U.S. military technology are increasingly asking defense contractors for information through emailed requests, phone calls or marketing surveys. A Read more...
The official and unofficial Pentagon Facebook sites
The Pentagon has official Facebook sites, and then, of course, there are those sites set up by military families, fans, supporters and possibly interlopers. Janson Communications, a public relations Read more...
DoJ sued for sleuthing practices on Facebook, Twitter
The Department of Justice and five other governmental agencies were sued last week by a privacy watchdog group for using Facebook, Twitter and other social networks to investigate citizens in Read more...
DoD social-media policy in limbo
The Pentagon is still studying whether to allow social networking on its websites, a tough problem for an agency that often deals with classified information. It was expected to release a report Read more...
Will DoD take the leap to social media?
The Defense Department is at a crossroads, as social networking takes the federal government by storm. Every federal agency has jumped onto this new phenomenon, or at least put its toe into it. But Read more...
Social Security numbers ripe for fraud
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University reported this week that, in this era of widespread use of computers and sophisticated software, the Social Security numbering system is more vulnerable to Read more...
Government seeks rules for federal social networking
The federal government is not jumping into the world of social networking without any forethought or plan. Although many federal agencies and workers are clamoring for more access to social networks, Read more...
State Department faces digital divide
The State Department is trying to use modern technology to reach out to the Muslim world with blogs, chat boards, social networking sites and video in Arabic, Farsi and Urdu. It makes sense to Read more...
Feds need tech-savvy plan to attract new generation
The Merit Systems Protection Board, which monitors government workplace policies, says it is time for federal recruiters and hiring managers to start becoming tech-savvy and to use the modern IT Read more...
White House faces email hang-up
The White House tried to get responses from federal employees about improving government transparency, but several workers never received the email prompting until the comment period had ended. Read more...
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