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From the company’s press release: AltaVista’s expanded multimedia index catalogs more than 540 million comprehensive, high-quality image files and approximately 11 million video and audio files, including popular formats such as MP3 and MPEG.
From the Lawyers Committee on Human Rights press release: On June 17, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the government broad authority to withhold the names of hundreds of non-citizens detained in the United States in the post September 11 sweeps. The case, Center for National Security Studies v. DOJ, was on appeal from …
Rep. Joseph M. Hoeffel (PA) introduced a bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to improve the administration and oversight of foreign intelligence surveillance, the Surveillance and Oversight and Disclosure Act of 2003 (SODA). Press release Text of H.R. 2429 (pfd) Law Would Spy on Ashcroft, from Security Focus.
A tempest is swirling around the prepared and spontaneous statements of Senator Orrin Hatch before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, “The Dark Side of a Bright Idea: Will Personal and National Security Risks of P2P Networks Compromise the Promise of P2P Networks?” on June 17. See this AP article, Hatch Takes Aim at Illegal Downloading …
AMA 2003 E-Mail Rules, Policies and Practices Survey (8 pages, pdf), from the American Management Association: “More than half of U.S. companies engage in some form of e-mail monitoring of employees and enforce e-mail policies with discipline or other methods. In fact, 22% have terminated an employee for e-mail infractions. Three-fourths of all organizations have …
Information Flows: The Costs and Benefits to Consumers and Businesses of The Collection and Use of Consumer Information, June 18, 2003. Panelists will discuss: The use of consumer information in credit transactions; consumer information in customer relationship management and targeted marketing; methodologies for identifying and measuring the costs and benefits of collecting consumer information; and …
Jerry Lawson’s detailed and informative article on LLRX.com, Web Logs for Lawyers: Lessons from Ernie the Attorney, received a mention in the June 16 MSNBC Weblog Central column.
Consumer WebWatch has launched an ad campaign to spotlight 28 websites whose content complies with the organizaton’s five guidelines for improving Web site credibility, published April, 2002. Sites that are identified as “Praise Worthy” include Adobe.com, CBS MarketWatch.com, and WebMD. See also my article from LLRX, Getting It Right: Verifying Sources on the Net.
June 17, 2003 – Legislative hearing on H.R. 2344, the Intellectual Property Protection Restoration Act of 2003 (to restore Federal remedies for infringements of intellectual property by states), Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property. Witness List
On March 27, Sen. Biden introduced S. 731, the Secure Authentication Feature and Enhanced Identification Defense Act of 2003″ (SAFE ID Act), to prohibit fraud and related activity in connection with authentication features. “This bill will increase penalties for illegally using authentication features, such as holograms or watermarks, to create false, misleading or inaccurate identification. …
From the June 16 Federal Register: GSA Discontinues Printing and Distribution of the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance: The Internet and GSA’s free CFDA Web site will be the primary means of disseminating the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance. In addition to what is already there, the Web site will soon contain a version of …
The press release, FTC Joins International Law Enforcers in Announcing Newly Developed Cross-Border Fraud Guidelines, is here, and provides links to press releases from participating countries, including Australia, Finland, Japan, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. See also: From the OECD press release: OECD governments have agreed on guidelines outlining a framework for international co-operation …
