Online Job Seekers and Privacy Issues
World Privacy Forum, 2003 Job Search Privacy Study (81 pages, pdf) – Job Searching in the Networked Environment: Consumer Privacy Benchmarks
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Censorware Exemption Extended by LC
As a follow-up to my posting on October 29, LC Grants Limited Digital Copyright Exemptions, Attorney James S. Tyre of the Censorware Project posted this entry on his blog, Censorware Exemption to DMCA Anti-circumvention Provisions In Effect For Another Three Years, that includes the full text of the Register’s recommendation in support of the censorware …
Legal Marketing via Blogs
From Denise Howell’s blog, What Has Your Blawg Done For You, Your Clients, Your Profession, Lately? Issues addressed include: Blawgs For Professional Development Blawgs As Devoted, Low Cost, Personal PR Experts Blawgs As Conversations
Doctor-Patient E-Mail Communication
From The Yale Journal of Law & Technology (YJoLT): Message Deleted? Resolving Physician-Patient E-mail through Contract Law, by Michael A. McCann – “This article examines the impact of e-mail on the physician-patient relationship, and how contract law can resolve the uncertainties incumbent in this nascent form of communication.”
New Version of IE to Include Ad Blocker
According to News.com, Microsoft will include a a pop-up blocker in the new version of Internet Explorer for Windows XP, early next year.
The Future of the Book
Noted author Umberto Eco delivered a speech on 10/11/03 at the Library of Alexandria on the future of books in which he stated: “Libraries, all over the centuries, have been the most important way to keep our collective wisdom. They were and still are a sort of universal brain where we can retrieve what we …
Bashing Corporations on the Web Often Results in Silence
Companies largely ignore Web sites lambasting them: Many corporations choose to ignore criticism of their products and/or services on websites created to give voice to dissatisfied customers, whose comments in turn may or may not have merit.
Gov’t Portal Provides Benefits Data from 48 States
From FCW.com: The Labor Department today launched a new version of GovBenefits.gov that includes information on benefits programs in 20 states, taking another step toward making the Web portal a truly governmentwide source for citizens.
Blogs as a Library Marketing Tool
Why and How to Use Blogs to Promote Your Library’s Services, by Darlene Fichter: “Librarians have had to learn how to do a lot with just a little in order to promote awareness of their programs and services. They have seized the opportunities to market libraries in the real world via traditional media: newspapers, corporate …
Free Database of Spam Sources Assists ISPs and IT Managers
Spammers Can Run but They Can’t Hide: “…the nerve center of Spamhaus, controlling servers on five continents…[is] its database [of] dossiers on the 200 most prolific spammers and the addresses of the 8,000 computers they use to inundate people with ads. Spamhaus makes the list available to Internet service providers, which use the information to …
Hearing on Computer Viruses
The House Energy and Commerce Committee Telecommunications and the Internet Subcommittee held a hearing on November 6 entitled, Computer Viruses: The Disease, the Detection, and the Prescription for Protection: Prepared testimony from – Richard D. Pethia, Director, CERT Coordination Center; Ken Silva, Vice President, VeriSign Inc.; John W. Thompson, Chairman & CEO, Symantec Corporation.
9-11 Commission Votes to Issue Subpoenas for Military Docs
From the Commission’s November 7 press release: “The Commission has encountered some serious delays in obtaining needed documents from the Department of Defense (DoD). We are especially dismayed by problems in the production of the records of activities of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and certain Air Force commands on September 11, 2001. …
