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On January 23, I posted on how GOP Staffers Improperly Accessed Democratic Files. See this related commentary today, from ZDNet, Security breach on Capitol Hill: It’s criminal and from KnoxNews, Computer reportedly seized from Frist’s office.
Capturing tacit knowledge: Do you know more than you think? “An examination of the challenges involved in capturing tacit knowledge, by Bina Shah, Allen & Overy.” [via excited utterances] “Tacit knowledge is a mixture of deliberations, subjective insight, intuition and judgment that lawyers acquire by virtue of their experience and expertise.”
From the January 2004 issue of Law Practice Today: Electronic Document Retention Policies (And Why Your Clients Need Them).
From the Sunday, January 25 New York Times Magazine, The Tyranny of Copyright? reviews the impact of the Internet in the context of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Copyright Term Extension Act, the Copy Left movement, and the Creative Commons.
Finding People Resources and Sites on the Net: a pdf bibliography of free and fee-based sites.
H. RES. 499, introduced January 21, 2004 by Congressman Rush Holt (see his press release here). From the text of the resolutuon: “(1) the President is requested to transmit to the House of Representatives not later than the date that is 14 days after the date of the adoption of this resolution, all documents, including …
New sites fact check politicians, journalists. From the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, FactCheck.org has postings beginning on December 2, 2003 and “monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases.” On January 11, 2004 …
From the FTC’s Identity Theft Data Clearing House, a new report, National and State Trends in Fraud & Identity Theft, January – December 2003. From the January 22 press release: “For the fourth year in a row, identity theft topped the list, accounting for 42 percent of the complaints lodged in the FTCs Consumer Sentinel …
The Boston Globe yesterday reported on a significant security breach involving the House Judiciary Committee server, access to which is shared by both Democrats and Republicans. Passwords meant to provide security for each parties’ respective documents failed due to a security glitch, allowing Republicans unrestricted access to a voluminous amount of Democratic communications. The article …
A Security Analysis of the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE), January 20, 2004: “This report is a review and critique of computer and communication security issues in the SERVE voting system (Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment), an Internet-based voting system being built for the U.S. Department of Defense’s FVAP (Federal Voting Assistance …
The 9/11 Commission has worked diligently to obtain the requisite government documents to fulfill its work by the May 27 deadline, but may seek an extension, which will be opposed by the President and House Speaker Hastert.
Earlier this month the IRS caused a controversy with the requirement that the tax software industry assist the agency in tracking filers who used the IRS Free File system. Yesterday brought an announcement that compliance with this requirement had been postponed “until the end of the current filing season.”
