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Google Privacy Policy Highlights, October 14, 2005: “At Google we recognize that privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use Google’s services, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. We hope this will help you make an informed decision about …
From WSJ free features today, Photo Agencies Scour the Web For Copyright Violations.
From the Congressional Budget Office, this new report, Long-Term Economic Effects of Chronically Large Federal Deficits, October 13, 2005 (6 pages, PDF).
Follow-up to previous postings on Bush administration violations of the propaganda policy, this press release today from Sen. Lautenberg: “The Inspector General of the Department of Education has informed United States Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) that he has referred the investigation into the payments by the Bush Education Department to journalist Armstrong Williams to …
From FederalNewsRadio, ‘Jawbreaker’ Author Struggles to Break His Story. Related sources: From AP, via USA Today, New rules to govern publications by CIA officers. Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror Reviewing the Work of CIA Authors – Secrets, Free Speech, and Fig Leaves
Q&A: CIA leak case – A grand jury in the US is investigating the source of a leak that led to the public unmasking of a CIA agent in 2003. Related beSpacific links on the Plame identity leak From the October 15, 2005 Washington Post (reg. req’d), Rove Pressed On Conflicts, Source Says – Questions …
After listening to this report on NPR yesterday, it seemed like a good idea to also share this related National Geographic article: 4,000-Year-Old Noodles Found in China.
From the Federal Judiciary Newsroom, “a new locator map…helps you find all federal courts and probation and pretrial services offices. It is searchable by city and state, zip code, county and state, and area code.”
The Complete Guide to E-mail, Inc. Magazine, October 2005: “What follows is a guide to the biggest e-mail concerns, particularly security, compliance, and archiving. We’ll give you tools for building an e-mail policy now, which can save headaches later, and also advice on buying the right system.”
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering “website has undergone significant improvements in the areas of content, navigation and design, making it easier to find information and answers to questions in a clear and user-friendly manner. The website will also serve as a showcase for NIBIB grantees whose work is featured heavily throughout the …
The European Civil Liberties Network (ECLN) will be launched on Wednesday, October 19, 2005. [d.c.] “Participating organisations share the common objective of seeking to create a European society based on freedom and diversity, a society of fundamental civil liberties and personal and political freedoms, of free movement and freedom of information, and equal rights for …
From the October 13, 2005 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, the following essays, available at no cost to non-subscribers, “discuss the immediate challenges [physicians] faced and address the public health concerns in the aftermath.” Volunteer Work Logistics First Public Health Response Assessing Needs Finding Supplies Aftershocks Evacuated Populations Lessons …
