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Global Concerns: An In-Depth Examination of Travel Web Sites Selling International Airline Tickets “Consumer WebWatch wanted to determine if competition was more or less intense in the international market. The conclusion of this test is that online competition within the international airfare arena is indeed robust. Despite relatively high ticket prices, many of the sites …
In his September 27 posting on the Yahoo! Search Blog, Scott Gatz from the My Yahoo! Team details the new RSS features incorporated in the redesigned My Yahoo! beta release. For additional information, see also New My Yahoo Beta, Featuring RSS and Atom, from Jeremy Zawodny’s blog (Jeremy is a Yahoo developer, author, blogger and …
In a 120 page decision today, Doe and ACLU v. Ashcroft et al., No. 04-CIV-2614, Judge Victor Marreo, Southern District of New York, “struck down an entire Patriot Act provision that gives the government unchecked authority to issue “National Security Letters” to obtain sensitive customer records from Internet Service Providers and other businesses without judicial …
A Starting Point: Legal Implications of Internet Filtering (PDF 16 pages) “In this paper, the Open Net Initiative (ONI) considers some of the legal implications of controlling access to Internet content through filtering. ONI — a research partnership of the Berkman Center, University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, and the University of Cambridge — documents Internet …
The Piracy Deterrence and Education Act of 2004, Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. See also H. Rept. 108-700.
From Orin Kerr, news of the publication of a draft of his new essay, Digital Evidence and the New Criminal Procedure. “This essay shows how existing rules of criminal procedure are poorly equipped to regulate the collection of digital evidence. It predicts that new rules of criminal procedure will evolve to regulate digital evidence investigations, …
Social Security Numbers: Use Is Widespread and Protections Vary in Private and Public Sectors GAO-04-1099T, September 28, 2004, Highlights-PDF “The use of SSNs by both private and public sector entities is likely to continue, but the more frequently SSNs are used, the more likely they are to be misused given the continued rise in identity …
Thanks to Paige, who alerted me to this article with details about Microsoft’s FlexWiki, a free, “experimental collaboration tool, based on WikiWiki. See also SourceForge.net’s Project: FlexWiki: Summary, and Enter the World of the “Wiki”
Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission on Identity Theft and Social Security Numbers, Before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, September 28, 2004. Accompanying FTC press release See also the Fair Credit Reporting Act and previous postings here and here on security issues associated …
From WebProNews, via Search Engine Guide, this update that RocketInfo, a terrific news portal, has added a feature allowing users to create RSS feeds for specific searches. How to generate an RSS feed on RocketInfo: 1) create and run a search; 2) On the upper right hand corner of the Search Results page, you will …
From Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), “a data gathering, data research and data distribution organization associated with Syracuse University, this new bulletin: Federal Pollution Enforcement Declines: Details by Statute.
The 9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act (PDF, 335 pages), introduced by House Speaker Hastert on September 24, 2004. Hastert Statement on 9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act Related documents – EFF press release, Draft “PATRIOT II” Legislation Goes Too Far and Brookings Briefing- Intelligence Reform in the Wake of the 9/11 Commission Report (PDF, 50 pages)
