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DAILY BRIEFING
December 6, 2004
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Fiscal 2005 spending bill addresses privacy issues

By Chloe Albanesius, National Journal's Technology Daily
The omnibus spending bill for fiscal 2005 includes privacy provisions
crafted to prevent the unlawful transfer of or access to confidential
information.

The language, which would prohibit federal agencies from monitoring
individuals' Internet use, is included in the part of the bill, H.R. 4818,
that would fund the Transportation and Treasury departments. That section
also would fund independent agencies and general government appropriations.

The government cannot collect information about Web users unless that
information does not identify specific people or those people give their
permission. Exceptions would be made for law enforcement requests and
"system security" incidents required to protect agency networks.

The bill also would require that each government entity hire chief privacy
officers to oversee system privacy, ensure that any data collection is legal
and secure, and evaluate the disclosure of personal information by the
government. To ensure that agencies are complying with the provisions, the
measure would require each agency's inspector general to hire consultants to
evaluate the agencies' use of identifiable information and its
data-protection procedures.

The measure also would provide funding to modernize information technology
infrastructure. The Treasury Department could spend a maximum of $3 million
on its IT modernization plan, while the Internal Revenue Service would get
$205 million to acquire IT systems, pending the House and Senate
Appropriations committees' approval.

The Executive Office of the President, meanwhile, would receive about $12
million for IT modernization, but $4 million would not be released until the
office submits a plan that is approved by White House Office of Management
and Budget, Government Accountability Office and appropriations committees.

Lawmakers also appropriated $42 million for the Counterdrug Technology
Assessment Center, $24 million of which would be used to continue the
program that transfers technologies developed with federal funds to state
and local communities.

Meanwhile, the Election Assistance Commission would receive $14 million to
implement the 2002 election overhaul, which included language on e-voting.
Of that sum, $2.8 million would go to the National Institute of Standards
and Technology.

Overall, the Transportation and Treasury departments' share of the spending
bill includes some $59 million for advanced technology development, an
increase over the $42 million suggested by the House and $57 million offered
by the Senate. The bill calls for $1.5 million worth of appliance-based
computer-security technology, $400,000 for technology frameworks and
$500,000 for certificate-based Internet security. The bill also calls on the
departments not to exceed $2.5 million on their e-government initiatives.

The bill would allocate $1.5 million for vertical flight technology, $4
million for "phased array" radar technology and $3 million for anti-jamming
technology for global positioning systems. It also would appropriate $8
million for research and technology program support, including $250,000 for
the Transportation Research Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology
and $1.5 million for the Oklahoma Transportation Center.

The bill also would waive "Buy America" provisions requiring federal IT
purchases to include U.S.-made content, and it would allow the Federal
Railroad Administration to reimburse employees for home Internet connections.


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