MMB on data APIs: look what happened in Virginia!

by Staff
Published: May 7, 2009
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Yesterday we posted a memo from the Office of Enterprise Technology about implementing data Application Program Interfaces (APIs) into state accounting and procurement systems. They seemed pretty skeptical, but reasonable, about the possible shortcomings and security hazards of letting queries from anonymous people into production systems. Today, Curt Yoakum from Minnesota Management and Budget got back [...]

Office of Enterprise Technology alarmed over security risks via spending data APIs

by Staff
Published: May 6, 2009
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PIM previously covered Rep. Paul Gardner’s (DFL-Shoreview) proposal (HF625) to implement Application Program Interfaces (APIs) in state accounting and procurement databases, an increasingly popular notion among open government advocates nationally. This PIM writer suggested to Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB) that they might want to look at making APIs available because their “TAP” Web-based application [...]

Criminal intelligence data or control files? New BCA proposal offers glimpse of major expansion in snooping

by Staff
Published: March 9, 2009
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“Criminal intelligence data may be shared with: …(2) a law enforcement agency to charge a person with a crime or allege that a juvenile is delinquent…” That’s the best schoolmarm line from a wild new bill emanating from the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA). One could imagine law enforcement wants to finally comb through all [...]

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