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Via Kuro5hin.org, links to websites for legal music downloads, which is a timely resource in light of this news from the RIAA today that states in part: “..its member companies have filed the first wave of what could ultimately be thousands of civil lawsuits against major offenders who have been illegally distributing substantial amounts (averaging …
From Statewatch.com: “European Commission tells USA that demands for access to data on airline passengers breaches EU Data Protection Directive – correspondence reveals that USA is also asking for Advance Passenger Information to vet those flying.”
The DOJ took issue with a statement on the Patriot Act posted to the ABCNews Nightline website yesterday, resulting in this press release. The following “correction” now appears on the Nightline website: Correction – Yesterday, a promo for Nightline posted on the ABCNEWS homepage incorrectly read: “Imagine a nation where police can search your home …
Steven Clift posted to Slashdot on his recent article, E-Democracy, E-Governance, and Public Net-work, which offers some interesting recommendations along with illustrative web links.
RSS and News Aggregators: What Do You Really Need To Know To Keep Up? by Steven J. Bell, Director of the Library, Paul J. Gutman Library, Philadelphia University.
From Salon.com, this commentary, Brave new skies, by Farhad Manjoo, provides context and perspective to the ongoing controversy engendered by the government’s computer-assisted passenger prescreening system (CAPPS II).
Music industry to unveil amnesty offer for Internet downloaders: “The recording industry is expected to announce as early as next week an amnesty program for people who admit they illegally share music files across the Internet, promising not to sue them in exchange for their admission and pledge to delete the songs off their computers.”
The Center for Democracy and Technology sent a letter on September 4 to Reps. Adam Smith and Howard Berman, House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property, urging the implementation of privacy protections for personal information entered in the WhoIs domain name database. See also my posting from September 4 on the Hearing on …
Early adopters of corporate blogging include some law firms, according to this E-Commerce Times article. See also this posting from the June 2003 Law of the Blog conference, which addresses some of the important issues associated with this nascent process in the legal sector.
EPIC and Privacy International today released their Privacy and Human Rights 2003 report. “This extensive survey examines the state of civil liberties around the world. Key topics include Total Information Awareness, the public response to the Patriot Act, biometric identification, and new technologies of surveillance.”
From a recent Dept. of Justice FOIA Post: “The total number of Freedom of Information Act/Privacy Act access requests received by all federal departments and agencies during Fiscal Year 2002 was 2,402,938. This is 156,726 more than the number of requests received during Fiscal Year 2001, an increase of nearly 7%, and it marks the …
AP reported that commercial online public records provider ChoicePoint has eliminated its database of “personal information of 65 million voting-age Mexican citizens” following a controvery surrounding the means by which this information was obtained. The company has a contract with the Dept. of Justice, which uses the system for activities associated with homeland security. See …
