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John Batelle posted the text (PDF) of University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman’s keynote address at the Association of American Publishers Conference, February 6. She defended her university’s participation in the Google Library Project as well as the overall value and importance of library digitization programs in general. Related news: A leading US academic …
Webroot State of Spyware Report 2005: ” An alarming rise in the number of corporate data breaches combined with a steady rise in the sophistication of spyware threats and distribution methods made 2005 the biggest year yet for spyware…” A Crawler-based Study of Spyware on the Web – Alexander Moshchuk, Tanya Bragin, Steven D. Gribble, …
Follow-up to Gov’t Climate Change Expert Contends Censorship of Data and NASA Chief Calls for “Scientific Openness” Amidst Claims of Gov’t Secrecy, today this report from the New York Times on the resignation of a presidential appointee at NASA responsible for ordering revisions of data available to the public on the agency website.
Jennifer Laycock provides a brief but useful comparison of the two satellite services, Google Earth and Windows Live Local – beta.
The Christian Science Monitor: US plans massive data sweep – Little-known data-collection system could troll news, blogs, even e-mails. Will it go too far?
Congressional Research Service, Memorandum to Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Subject: Probable Cause, Reasonable Suspicion, and Reasonableness Standards in the Context of the Fourth Amendment and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, January 30, 2006 (via FAS).
Following up on AG Gonzales Testimony to Judiciary Cmte. Generates Strong Response, news today about Congressional requests for additional information on the NSA spy program: Press release: “House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-Wis.) today sent a Judiciary Committee oversight letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales requesting extensive answers about the National Security …
Press release: “Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), the ranking Democrat on the Telecommunications and Internet Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today introduced the Eliminate Warehousing of Consumer Internet Data Act of 2006 designed to strengthen consumers’ Internet privacy and prevent companies from storing personal information for indefinite periods of time…Rep. Markeys …
Follow-up to Preserving an Open Internet through Net Neutrality, see this hearing today: Net Neutrality, Full Senate Commerce Committee, Tuesday, February 7, 2006. Member and Witness statements (in PDF, including those from Vinton Cerf and Lawrence Lessig), are available here. Washington Post: Verizon Executive Calls for End to Google’s ‘Free Lunch’
Suspicions Confirmed: This January the Warmest Ever Recorded in America and Scientists Warn of Melting Ocean Ice and Rising Oceans in the Arctic Because of Global Warming.
Follow up on previous postings, Executive Order Mandates Chief FOIA Officers for Each Agency by January 13, 2006 and President Issues New Order on FOIA Disclosures, this posting by Steven Aftergood documents new directives for agency responses to FOIA requests.
Hurricane Katrina: Managing Law Enforcement and Communications in a Catastrophe, February 6, 2006 FBI’s Hurricane Katrina Response – Kenneth W. Kaiser, Special Agent in Charge, Boston Field Office, FBI, Before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Member Statements and other Witness Testimony (all available in PDF) Related postings on Katrina
