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If you are interested in a community based learning experience on legal blogging, whether you are a librarian, attorney, marketing, CI or IT expert, take a look at the agenda for the upcoming BlawgThink 2005. Veteran blogger or novice, this forum offers a creative, interactive agenda, with presentations by, and conversations with, a range of …
Following up on previous postings related to security risks associated with discarding PC hard drives, the parallel environmental toll of the expanding amount of e-waste generated by constant hardware upgrades, via the The Basel Action Network (BAN): High-Tech Toxic Trash Exported to Africa The Digital Dump: Exporting Re-Use and Abuse to Africa Information Recovered from …
FOIA Falters – The law still works, but it needs a tune-up Related resources: See FOIA Facts, by Scott A. Hodes
Google’s patent portfolio — representing important clues to its future plans — are being made available on CD.
White House press release: President Nominates Judge Samuel A. Alito as Supreme Court Justice. Also from the White House: Biography of Samuel A. Alito Jr. AP: Bush Nominates Alito for Supreme Court CNN: Bush nominates Alito to Supreme Court Conservatives, liberals ready for heated debate Complete coverage from the New York Times: Supreme Court in …
From UPI: “More than 50 medical and scientific non-profit publishers, representing more than 120 journals, have offered the National Institutes of Health access to their contents free of charge through their current links to the NIH’s PubMed Central data archive.” From Washington D.C. Principles For Free Access to Science, in PDF, Leading Scientific & Medical …
A new, joint federal law enforcement and industry initiative to fight Internet fraud, called LooksTooGoodToBeTrue, was launched today (press release, 5 pages, PDF). “This website was developed to arm you with information so you dont fall victim to these Internet scam artists.” The site provides consumers with documentation on: Types of Fraud; Victim Stories; FAQs …
“As arguably the most important war crimes proceedings since Nuremberg, the trials of Saddam Hussein are likely to constitute a “Grotian Moment” defined as a legal development that is so significant that it can create new customary international law or radically transform the interpretation of treaty-based law. This Website features key documents related to …
CRS Report, Terrorist Capabilities for Cyberattack: Overview and Policy Issues, October 20, 2005.
Executive Order 13388, Further Strengthening the Sharing of Terrorism Information to Protect Americans, October 25, 2005, published in the Federal Register on October 28, 2005. “Duties of Heads of Agencies Possessing or Acquiring Terrorism Information…shall promptly give access to the terrorism information to the head of each other agency that has counterterrorism functions, and provide …
Rep. John Conyers. Jr., ConyersBlog: “The truisms of Watergate are the same: it is not the crime, it is the cover up and, when there is a cover up, there is a crime. And the questions are the same: What did the President and Vice President know and when did they know it?” Washington Post …
Hale, Robert V., Wi-Fi Liability: Potential Legal Risks in Accessing and Operating Wireless Internet. Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal, Vol. 21, p. 543. “Suppose you turn on your laptop while sitting at the kitchen table at home and respond OK to a prompt about accessing a nearby wireless Internet access point owned …
