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From the New York Times, Are Bloggers Setting the Agenda? It Depends on the Scandal. Refers to the Pew Internet and American Life Project report issued last week, “Buzz, Blogs and Beyond: The Internet and the National Discourse in the Fall of 2004.”
A Wired article reports that the anonymous youths suspected of having hacked LexisNexis claim to have acted on whim rather than with the objective to profit from the use of personal information they accessed.
AP reported that an audit revealed Montana state agencies failed to scrub the hard drives of state computers containing personal data (including social security numbers, income tax reports and medical records) prior to donating, selling and otherwise transferring their ownership. Related reference: Critical Importance of Cleaning Hard Drives When Replacing Your PC
From the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, an update today to their report, A Chronology of Data Breaches Reported Since the ChoicePoint Incident
Enron Offers an Unlikely Boost to E-Mail Surveillance This article references the work of Dr. David B. Skillicorn and Dr. Kathleen M. Carley
FTC press release today: FTC, Partners Launch Campaign Against Spam “Zombies”: “The Federal Trade Commission and 35 government partners from more than 20 countries have targeted the technology trick used by illegal spammers to tap into consumers’ home computers and use them to send millions of pieces of illegal spam. Spammers use hidden software that …
Internet Protocol Version 6: Federal Agencies Need to Plan for Transition and Manage Security Risks, GAO-05-471, May 20, 2005. Highlights. “The Internet protocol (IP) provides the addressing mechanism that defines how and where information such as text, voice, and video move across interconnected networks…IP version 6 (IPv6) was developed to increase the amount of available …
One of today’s WSJ free features: Sky-High Search Wars – Microsoft, Google Vie to Offer Best Aerial Views of Earth See also this press release: “Pictometry Selected by Microsoft to Provide Unique Aerial Images for MSN Virtual Earth
Press release, May 19, 2005: Metro adopts privacy policy and makes other records easier to access: “A new privacy policy adopted by the Metro Board today protects the privacy of customers’ personal information. The new policy was designed to protect the privacy of individuals by disclosure without prior written authorization from the person. It assures …
Antispyware legislation redux: HR 29 and HR 744 were passed yesterday with only one and four dissenting votes respectively. House Approves Bono Bill to Lock Out Internet’s Spying Eyes Goodlatte Legislation to Combat Spyware Passes House
FBI asks US Congress for new power to seize documents Related reference: From EFF DeepLinks, a copy of a letter [PDF] to the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence expressing the collective opposition by a range of civil liberties/civil rights organizations, “to granting to the FBI in national security investigations …
Dockets Update, by Robyn Rebollo Bibliography of Employment Resources for Law Librarians, by Gloria Miccioli The Federal Civil Code of Mexico, by Prof. Jorge A. Vargas The Government Domain: New Tools For Government Research After Hours: Taste of the Nation Comes to Brooklyn / Meet Cuke Skywalker / Mail Order Wine, by Kathy Biehl
