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Maryland’s Attorney General J. Joseph Curran Jr. today announced the availability of an online Prescription Drug Price Finder, with data “on prices for 25 of the most commonly used drugs in Maryland, as reported by the States Medical Assistance Program.” Users may search the database by county, city, zip code, and prescription drug name. See …
As a follow-up to this post on the theft of Senate Judiciary Cmte. computer files, Sen. Patrick Leahy today issued the following statement: “I have been notified that the Department of Justice has ‘assigned’ to David Kelley, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, the investigation of Republican staff theft of Democratic …
“SAFECOM was established to serve as the umbrella program within the Federal Government, to help local, tribal, state, and federal public safety agencies improve public safety response through more effective and efficient interoperable wireless communications. [Link] “The Statement of Requirements (SoR) for public safety communications and interoperability provides information on base level requirements for a …
Consumer Reports has published a review of six national mortgage loan websites that includes caveats about privacy issues and evaluations of respective service levels and value as compared to local bank rates.
A new data memo from the Pew Internet Project notes a decline in the rate of music downloading from its heyday in 2003, but millions of Americans continue to obtain music using filing sharing applications. Many users have been deterred from downloading however by the highly publicized anti-piracy campaign waged by the music industry.
Application of the DMCA Safe Harbor Provisions to Search Engines, by Craig W. Walker, Virginia Journal of Law & Technology, Volume 9, Issue 1 – Winter 2004: “The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) established procedures that Internet service providers can implement to gain protection from liability for copyright infringement by their users. Under DMCA “notice …
The E-Government Act of 2002 includes the provision that all federal agency websites must post privacy policies in “standardized machine-readable format.” However, a recent survey indicates that less than 15% of the 137 federal websites are in compliance.
The New York Times has an overview of the students, program, and legal community evaluation of Concord Law School, the online program launched in 1998 by Kaplan Educational Centers, that graduated its first class last fall.
The American University School of Information, in Washington, D.C. hosts this website on Critical Infrastructure Information and Protection, providing links to topical government documents including those from the White House, Executive Agencies, State Legislation, and GAO and CRS Reports.
Government Paperwork Burdens Have Increased Substantially under the Bush Administration, United States House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform – Minority Staff Special Investigations Division, April 20, 2004: From the text of the report – President Bush has made reducing the burdens of completing government paperwork a key item in his economic agenda. In speech …
During last week’s American Society of Newspaper Editors’ conference in Washington, D.C., Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry stated that if elected President he would “hold a full press conference at least once a month,” and that “I believe very deeply in freedom of information.” [Link]
“Department of Defense spokesman Bryan Whitman and Dana Milbank of the Washington Post debate the Pentagon’s ban on media coverage of the return of fallen service members that was broken twice this week.” [Link] The gallery of 361 photos, obtained via a FOIA request by the Memoryhole.org and whose posting resulted in this controversy. The …
