Beta Yahoo Search Toolbar Offers Anti-Spyware Protection
The Yahoo! Toolbar is currently offering a beta version that provides anti-spyware protection from PestControl. This version of the toolbar is for IE users only.
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Passenger Data Collection Pact Signed Between EU and US
See the DHS press release, and the Fact Sheet: US-EU Passenger Name Record Agreement Signed. The transfer of data includes passenger email addresses, phone numbers and credit card information.
MSN Will Release New Search Tool
Microsoft to launch new search tool. According to CBS MarketWatch, the new application will be launched as a beta, and “allow users to search for files and information across their PCs, in e-mails, on the Internet and from other sources.” See also Google Readies Launch of New Desktop Search Tool.
The Importance of An Effective Search Engine For Your Intranet
An essential component of an effective intranet is a powerful, versatile and user friendly search engine. This article focuses on enterprise-wide deployment of Google for this function, and what portends to be the growth in marketing this successful search product.
Maryland Enacts Model Anti-Spam Law
Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich signed the Maryland Spam Deterrence Act (HB 1320), which “prohibits a person from sending multiple commercial electronic mail (e-mail) messages under specified circumstances from a protected computer. Violators are subject to criminal and civil liability.”
New Survey Documents Increase in E-Crimes
“The 2004 E-Crime Watch survey (pdf, 20 pages) conducted among security and law enforcement executives by CSO magazine in cooperation with the United States Secret Service and the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute’s CERT Coordination Center, shows a significant number of organizations reporting an increase in electronic crimes (e-crimes) and network, system or data …
CA Bill Restricting Google’s Gmail Passes Senate
From ZDNet: “The California state Senate on Thursday approved a bill that takes aim at Google’s new Gmail service, placing strict limits on e-mail providers seeking to scan customer messages for advertising and other purposes.” See SB 1822. See also Google Responds To Email Privacy Concerns
Bill to Amend Patriot Act to Repeal Sunsets
A bill to amend the USA PATRIOT Act to repeal the sunsets was introduced in the Senate May 21, by Senator Jon Kyl (R-AR). See S. 2476. See my previous post on USA Patriot Act Sunset Provisions. See also ACLU, ALA Oppose Bill Making Patriot Act Permanent
Advocacy Group Recommends Privacy Features in Response to Gov’t Data Mining
From the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), a 15 page report (pdf), Anonymization May Protect Privacy As Government Seeks Data, that states: “The same technology that permits the accumulation, sharing, and analysis of huge databases also allows for the incorporation into information sharing systems of features that protect information from abuse or misuse. In …
Privacy of Medical Data in Credit Approval Process
From EPIC: “EPIC and a coalition of privacy advocacy organizations filed comments (pdf) with five federal agencies which issued a proposed regulation under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act. The coalition supported the regulation’s general prohibition on creditors obtaining or using medical information about a consumer in connection with deciding whether the consumer is …
News on Increasing E-Gov’t Surveillance
Govt Computer Surveillance Rings Alarm Bells Survey Finds U.S. Agencies Engaged in ‘Data Mining’: See the following report, issued today by the GAO – Data Mining: Federal Efforts Cover a Wide Range of Uses. GAO-04-548, May 4. Highlights. “Our survey of 128 federal departments and agencies on their use of data mining shows that 52 …
Hearing to Amend the Federal Trademark Dilution Act
Committee Print to Amend the Federal Trademark Dilution Act, April 22, 2004. Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, of the Committee on the Judiciary. For reference, see 15 U.S.C. 1125(c)
