The Securities and Exchange Commission has introduced e-mail alerts that will allow the public to be notified when new feedback is posted on its Web site about rulemaking for the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill.

It has had e-mail alerts for a year on other matters and has since sent 11 million updates to nearly 14,000 subscribers.
“We’re using technology to promote transparency in this important process,” a spokesman said “Now you can have Dodd-Frank rulemaking comments sent to your computer or smartphone as soon as they’re posted on the SEC Web site.”

The SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have set up a system where comments can be posted on their sites under each section of the bill, and where documentation made available to the agencies’ staffers can be made public.

Find the comments.