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When can agencies monitor your email? FDA case sparks debate over policy Feb 05, 2012 Allegations that the Food and Drug Administration monitored employees' personal emails have sparked a debate among legal experts and advocacy groups about electronic monitoring practices governmentwide. Read Comments (6) Recommend (2) GAO: Outdated technology slows OPM retirement process Here is how complicated the federal government's process for calculating new retiree pensions has become. The Office of Personnel Management has more than 80 different systems — some of which are so old they run on antiquated COBOL programming language. Those 80 systems have to talk to 400 other personnel and financial systems scattered throughout the rest of the government. (9) FDA whistle-blowers' lawsuit raises questions about email surveillance Whistle-blower advocates are lauding a new federal lawsuit that seeks to ban all federal agencies from targeting whistleblowers with selected electronic surveillance and monitoring. (3) More than 4,000 vets potentially affected by VA data breach A Veterans Affairs Department data breach may have put at risk the personal information of more than 4,000 veterans, VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker said Wednesday. (2) No big cuts anticipated for Pentagon's IT budget, deputy CIO says The Defense Department is not anticipating major cuts to its $38.5 billion information technology budget next fiscal year, a department official said.		Federal Times Video Most Popular Federal Stories Today Past Week Past Month OPM speeds up retirement claims processing, but backlog grows (889) Bill would prohibit step increases for rest of year (816) House passes bill proposing BRAC-like process for excess federal property (440) Agencies on track to cut or avoid $50 billion in improper payments (407) Trump will develop Old Post Office into luxury hotel (356) Bill would prohibit step increases for rest of year (17362) Senators propose civilian pay freeze through 2014 (14435) CBO: Feds out-earn civilians; report fuels push for extended pay freeze (5731) When can agencies monitor your email? FDA case sparks debate over policy (5390) Pentagon plans for five years of reduced raises for civilian employees (5351) Proposed pay raise draws ire from all sides (34003) Pentagon plans for five years of reduced raises for civilian employees (30977) Panel chair introduces bill to reduce pensions (25553) Details coming soon on TSP's planned Roth fund (17403) Bill would prohibit step increases for rest of year (17364) Tell Us About Labor-management partnerships What changes, good or bad, do you foresee from President Barack Obama’s executive order to re-establish labor-management partnerships? Send your comments to Staff Writer Stephen Losey.
	Government Policy News When can agencies monitor your email? FDA case sparks debate over policy Allegations that the Food and Drug Administration monitored employees' personal emails have sparked a debate among legal experts and advocacy groups about electronic monitoring practices governmentwide. (6) GAO: Outdated technology slows OPM retirement process Here is how complicated the federal government's process for calculating new retiree pensions has become. The Office of Personnel Management has more than 80 different systems — some of which are so old they run on antiquated COBOL programming language. Those 80 systems have to talk to 400 other personnel and financial systems scattered throughout the rest of the government. (9) FDA whistle-blowers' lawsuit raises questions about email surveillance Whistle-blower advocates are lauding a new federal lawsuit that seeks to ban all federal agencies from targeting whistleblowers with selected electronic surveillance and monitoring. (3) More than 4,000 vets potentially affected by VA data breach A Veterans Affairs Department data breach may have put at risk the personal information of more than 4,000 veterans, VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker said Wednesday. (2) No big cuts anticipated for Pentagon's IT budget, deputy CIO says The Defense Department is not anticipating major cuts to its $38.5 billion information technology budget next fiscal year, a department official said. More Headlines GSA outlines requirements, schedule for cloud vendor reviews Administration wants to increase feds' use of mobile technology New director named at Defense Information Systems Agency Expected DoD shift on data protection could boost use of wireless devices Cloud security reviews give priority to GSA vendors Flat IT budget forces new approaches New program will assist agencies in adopting cloud services Obama orders agencies to improve records management policies News Digest: Nov. 28 DoD outlines data center consolidation plan More health plans offering online patient records Report recommends independent agency to oversee health IT Joint office gets boost in efforts to integrate DoD, VA health care records OPM cites improvements on problem-plagued USAJobs upgrade New reforms push more IT sharing, innovation VA preps networks for linkup to as many as 100,000 tablets IT spending hits the brakes Flat IT funding threatens cloud, mobile computing initiatives Closing data centers yields smaller payoff Agencies: Data center consolidation savings far less than estimated Search the Government Policy Archives for more News