Obama Administration

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U.S. To End Coverage Under Health Care Law For Tens Of Thousands

Robert Pearl | The New York Times | September 15, 2014

The Obama administration said on Monday that it planned to terminate health insurance for 115,000 people on Oct. 1 because they had failed to prove that they were United States citizens or legal immigrants eligible for coverage under the Affordable Care Act. It also told 363,000 people that they could lose financial aid because their incomes could not be verified...

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US Government Opens Access to Federal Source Code with Code.gov

Swapnil Bhartiya | Linux.com | November 11, 2016

In March of this year, the Obama administration created a draft for Federal Source Code policy to support improved access to custom software code. After soliciting comments from public,  the administration announced the Federal Source Code policy in August. One of the core features of the policy was the adoption of an open source development model: This policy also establishes a pilot program that requires agencies, when commissioning new custom software, to release at least 20 percent of new custom-developed code as Open Source Software (OSS) for three years, and collect additional data concerning new custom software to inform metrics to gauge the performance of this pilot...

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US Lawmaker: Ban Travel To US From Ebola-Stricken Countries

James Butty | Voice of America | July 31, 2014

A U.S. congressman has asked the Obama administration to impose an immediate travel ban on the citizens of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, as well as on foreigners who have visited those countries, to contain the spread of Ebola to the United States...

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US Utility Companies Warned About Potential for a Cyberattack After Ukraine’s

David E. Sanger | New York Times | February 29, 2016

The Obama administration has warned the nation’s power companies, water suppliers and transportation networks that sophisticated cyberattack techniques used to bring down part of Ukraine’s power grid two months ago could easily be turned on them. After an extensive inquiry, American investigators concluded that the attack in Ukraine on Dec. 23 may well have been the first power blackout triggered by a cyberattack — a circumstance many have long predicted...

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US Won't Reveal Records On Health Website Security

Jack Gillum | SF Gate | August 21, 2014

After promising not to withhold government information over "speculative or abstract fears," the Obama administration has concluded it will not publicly disclose federal records that could shed light on the security of the government's health care website because doing so could "potentially" allow hackers to break in...

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VA and VistA: Can They Be Fixed?

Aisha Chowdry | FCW | July 27, 2016

The Department of Veterans Affairs is rushing to make changes to its IT infrastructure and systems before the next administration enters the White House. And skeptical lawmakers, oversight bodies and outside experts are cautiously optimistic about the eventual outcomes. The key words, though, are "cautiously" and "eventual"...

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VA Secretary Wants To Improve Digital Services For Vets

Bob Brewin | Nextgov.com | September 9, 2014

Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald said he plans to launch a new digital services team in the agency to help winnow down its numerous websites as part of a plan to improve the services VA delivers to veterans...

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White House Unveils Action Plan For Gov’t Data Transparency; Steve VanRoekel, Todd Park Comment

Mary-Louise Hoffman | ExecutiveGov | May 14, 2014

The Obama administration has introduced a plan calling for federal agencies to make their datasets publicly available as part of an open government initiative, Federal News Radio reported Tuesday.  Shefali Kapadia writes that the White House wants agencies to prioritize the public’s research needs when sharing open data...

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Who Needs Heartbleed When Many Dot-Govs Don't Even Encrypt Communications

Aliya Sternstein | Nextgov.com | June 11, 2014

More than a quarter of federal websites are not properly configured with software to prevent intruders from intercepting data entered by citizens, according to a new study...

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Why The NSA Keeps Tracking People Even After They're Dead

Dustin Volz | Nextgov.com | July 24, 2014

You may be dead, but the U.S. government won't take you off its terrorist roster.
That's according to newly leaked internal guidelines from last year that reveal intimate details regarding the government's process for determining whether an individual should be designated as a possible terrorist suspect...

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‘We Kill People Based On Metadata’

David Cole | NYR Blog | May 10, 2014

If you have enough metadata, you don’t really need content.” When I quoted Baker at a recent debate at Johns Hopkins University, my opponent, General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and the CIA, called Baker’s comment “absolutely correct,” and raised him one, asserting, “We kill people based on metadata.”

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