Telecommuting Creates 24/7 Workers
Tethered by a high-tech leash – “Computers mean you can (must?) work anywhere, anytime.” Sound familiar?
Author archives
Small Business Screening of Potential and Current Employees
From the Utility Consumers’ Action Network/Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, Employment Background Checks: A Guide for Small Business Owners: “This guide is intended to acquaint small business owners with basic information about screening applicants and current employees.”
ACLU Respondes to DOJ Pro Patriot Act Website
PATRIOT Propaganda: Justice Department’s PATRIOT Act Website Creates New Myths About Controversial Law. See also my previous posting on the Preserving Life & Liberty website.
Computer Security Groups Work to Stop Threat of Computer Worms
Sleuths Try to Stay Step Ahead of Online Worms. Computer security and antivirus companies around the world are working to stay one step ahead of viruses that are increasingly impacting corporations, government agencies and home users. These “virus sleuths” are also assisting the FBI to track down and minimize the damage from malicious worms such …
Circumventing Internet Censorship
Designing a protocol to circumvent Internet censorship: “Peacefire has released a new set of instructions for circumventing Internet censorship. These instructions can be used to get around Internet blocking in China, for example, by having a friend outside China follow the instructions to set up a mini-Web-site that users in China can then connect to, …
A Study on the Virtual Law Library
Feasibility and Viability of the Digital Library in a Private Law Firm – “The authors reveal the results of a research study on the feasibility and viability of the digital library. Using information derived from surveys of law librarians, legal publishers, and attorneys, they provide a snapshot of the current state of the digital library …
Interview With Copyright/Security Expert Ed Felten
Princeton University computer science professor, author, security expert, and of course, blogger (his blog is called Freedom to Tinker, Ed Felten warns in this interview of “A collision is happening between creativity and protecting intellectual property.”
EPIC Files Amicus Brief in Supreme Court SS# Case
“EPIC has collaborated with numerous consumer and privacy organizations, legal scholars and technical experts to submit an amicus brief in Doe v. Chao, an important privacy case that will be heard by the Supreme Court later this year. This case concerns the wrongful disclosure of the Social Security Number by a federal agency and whether …
Blogs Find Niche at Regional Newspapers
Bloggers Train Sites on State Governments is an article which highlights several blogs that are published via newspapers in Washington state, Texas and California.
GAO Audit of White House Energy Task Force
Chronology of the GAO’s Attempts to Obtain Information from the National Energy Policy Development Group, August 25, 2003. Energy Task Force: Process Used to Develop the National Energy Policy. GAO-03-894, August 22. Highlights “The General Accounting Office said in a long-awaited report that Vice President Dick Cheney’s unwillingness to cooperate stymied efforts to find out …
Memorandum on Disabling Software Filtering
Memorandum of Legal Opinion, Library Procedures for Disabling Software Filtering and Unblocking Web Sites, by Janet M. LaRue, Chief Counsel, Concerned Women for America. (via LISNews.com)
UK and EU Plans to Track Vehicular Activity Via Microchip Technology
The proposed Electronic Vehicle Identification (EVI) system would require the installation of read-only microchips in all new vehicles whose purpose is to provide information on vehicular operation, including location and related activity such as speeding infractions, car theft, and parking violations. See also this EU document, Intelligent Transport Systems, Electronic vehicle identification, that details the …
