Accurate, Focused Research on Law, Technology and Knowledge Discovery With Daily Postings Since 2002
Press release: “The aim is to develop a major command that stands alongside Air Force Space Command and Air Combat Command as the provider of forces that the President, combatant commanders and the American people can rely on for preserving the freedom of access and commerce, in air, space and now cyberspace,” said Secretary of …
Follow-up to October 2, 2006 posting – Federal Judge Orders Release of Cheney’s Visitor Logs – today the New York Sun reported a U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit three judge panel granted a stay to block release of the logs detailing visitors to the Cheney resident and White House office.
Wall Street Journal free feature: YouTube Finds Signing Rights Deals Complex, Frustrating Financial Times: Google in bid to halt YouTube legal threat Related news: eWeek.com Google Watch blog: “Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment Corporation, an industrial manufacturing and sales firm, filed suit this week against YouTube in Ohio federal district court, arguing they’ve incurred dramatic …
Democratic Leadership report: United States Army Military Readiness, September 2006 [Helen Capdevielle]
Elizabeth Williamson at the Washington Post clearly and concisely documents, through the use of before and after graphics, the impact of redacting text from a DHS report, and its subsequent revelation, years later, as a result of a FOIA request. Related postings on over classification of government documents
The UK Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, today issued a press release and a publication titled, A Surveillance Society (102 pages, PDF), a report commissioned for the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, currently underway. The report “looks at surveillance in 2006 and projects forward ten years to 2016. It describes a surveillance society …
“A new study of the skills and characterisitics important to online newsrooms has been released by Medill Schol of Journalism and the cooperation of the Online News Association.” The Roles of Journalists in Online Newsrooms, by C. Max Magee, released November 1, 2006: “The survey findings depict an online journalism that is tethered to traditional …
Press release, November 1, 2006: “The Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG), two of the leading public-interest advocacy groups working on behalf of a more diverse and competitive online environment, filed a complaint today with the Federal Trade Commission, calling on the commission to undertake an immediate, …
From kaiserEDU.org: “SmartLinks provides ‘pre-queried’ searches on health policy topics (Complementary and Alternative Medicine; Electronic Medical Records; Children’s Health Coverage; Massachusetts Health Care Reform Plan; Direct-to-Consumer Advertising; Public Health Preparedness; Drug Safety and Regulation; Stem Cell Policy; Drug Reimportation; VA Health System) in several different internet search engines. You’ll get results from: PubMed, Kaisernetwork Daily …
ComputerWorld – E-voting state by state: What you need to know “Computerworld appreciates the assistance of Electionline.org, a project of the Pew Charitable Trust, in the compilation of this project. We also read closely and highly recommend the joint survey from The Century Institute, the Common Cause Education Fund and The Leadership Conference on Civil …
“Rep. Jay Inslee…asked the inspector general at the Interior Department to find out if political appointees have changed recommendations on threatened species written by biologists at the federal agency.” [Inslee’s letter to the inspector general, October 30, 2006]
Minority Staff of the House Government Reform Committee press release, November 1, 2006: “Rep. Waxman releases a fact sheet explaining that the growing incidence of contamination in fresh produce is a symptom of weaknesses in the federal food safety system.” Fact Sheet: Weaknesses in FDA’s Food Safety System, October 30, 2006
