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ACLU press release today: “The release of the 38-page report, entitled The Surveillance-Industrial Complex: How the American Government is Conscripting Businesses and Individuals in the Construction of a Surveillance Society, marks the launch of the ACLU’s Surveillance Campaign, which is designed to regain consumers’ personal privacy rights by mobilizing people to contact prominent companies …
Computer Users Share Private Files with Their MP3s Reference: See What You Share on P2P – A Showcase of Material Found on Peer-to-Peer Networks throughout the World. Here you will find “screen shots” of documents that other P2P users are sharing.
Jeremy Wagstaf’s briefly annotated list of RSS Readers includes useful reader comments and suggestions about several applications that may be new to you. Take a look.
This AP article, via CNN, highlights the Ask the White House online discussion forum between citizens and members of the administration. Previous posting on this e-gov initiative. Related article: E-democracy, e-mail and bloggers – quotes from Jimmy Orr, White House Internet Director, on issues related to the “Ask the White House” service.
OmniMedicalSearch.com [via reviews by ResearchBuzz and SearchEngine Watch]: Features: using the drop-down menu, users may choose to search one or all of the 15 indexed medical search engines, and may choose either the MedPro option (“primarily for medical professionals”) or the Basic option (“customized for the general public”). In addition, users may search one or …
Yahoo enhances toolbar with antispyware tool Yahoo! Toolbar
From UPI: “Congress is moving to force a shift to “open access,” a form of free-to-consumer publishing, for scientific papers. The move angers commercial publishers, who see their livelihoods threatened, and scares scientific societies, who are afraid they will face revenue losses or new costs they cannot afford. Even librarians, who pushed for the move, …
Request for Information for Study on Investigations of Disputed Consumer Information Reported to Consumer Reporting Agencies Related reference: Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003
Federal Judiciary: Assessing and Formally Documenting Financial Disclosure Procedures Could Help Ensure Balance between Judges’ Safety and Timely Public Access GAO-04-696NI, June 30, 2004 (Please note, the full text of this GAO report is not available in electronic form at this time.) Abstract: “During calendar years 1999 through 2002, the most recent years for which …
IceRocket, a privately owned and operated Search Engine “IceRocket is pioneering commercial search by putting the interests and wants of consumers before advertisers. IceRocket uses innovative metasearch technology to search the Internet’s top search engines, including WiseNut, Yahoo, MSN, Teoma, Altavista, Alltheweb, Lycos, and many more. IceRocket offers a full suite of Internet search products …
Learning Movable Type – Tutorials and helpful tips for beginners to the Movable Type web publishing system.
Civil Liberties and the 9/ 11 Commission – An ACLU White Paper on Notable Findings and Recommendations in the Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States [PDF, 18 pages] “The following analysis attempts to list and analyze those parts of the 9/ 11 Commission report most relevant for the …
