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The Federal Trade Commissions Bureau of Consumer Protection announced its sponsorship of new workshops on “Technologies for Protecting Personal Information” to be held on May 14 and June 4, 2003. “The workshops are intended to explore the role of technology in helping consumers and businesses to protect consumer information.” The agenda for the May 14 …
Although I already posted a link to this article on May 7, Google CEO Has No Near Term Plans for IPO, I did not pick-up on a statement highlighted by The Register in an article posted today. Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt stated: “Soon the company will also offer a service for searching Web logs, …
The House Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, held a hearing on May 8, The Importance of the National Credit Reporting System to Consumers and the U.S. Economy. See this link for full-text access to the opening statements of Representative Carolyn Maloney and Representative Rubén Hinojosa, as well as testimony …
On May 8, the Senate passed, 90 – 4, S. 113, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance bill “to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to cover individuals, other than United States persons, who engage in international terrorism without affiliation with an international terrorist group.” See the text of the floor debate from the …
Keith Berkland, applications development manager for Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP, has been a pioneer in the implementation and support of enterprise-wide KM solutions for the firm. See this KM World article for details about his work.
From Duke University School of Law, the Winter/Spring 2003 issue of Law & Contemporary Problems has 13 full-text articles on public domain issues, including Mapping the Digital Public Domain: Threats and Opportunities and Reconciling What the First Amendment Forbids with what the Copyright Clause Permits: A Summary Explanation and Review. The articles and essays in …
Several sources have recently reported on the White House refusal to release data and related sources on events that led up to the 9/11 attacks which comprise a 800-plus page Congressional study completed last December. Reasons for the unwillingess to provide the public with access to the currently ‘secret’ report range from the need to …
A.B. No. 68, the Online Privacy Protection Act of 2003, was amended in Assembly on April 28 and passed by the Committee on Business and Professions on May 7. The bill “requires an operator of a commercial website that collects personally identifiable information about individuals visiting its website or online service, who are located in …
Roll Call has an article, GAO Seeks New Name, Image (subscription required), in the print and online versions, in which David M. Walker, the Comptroller General of the United States states he “wants to change the name of Congress’ investigative arm to Government Accountability Office, saying the current name doesn’t fit its job description. The …
The Center for Digitial Government has published a new 26 page report in pdf, Digitial Cities 2002, Best of Breed Programs, that spotlights 11 specific projects undertaken by cities throughout the country to deliver a diverse range of specific enhanced digital solutions and services to government employees and citizens.
Comments of Charles E. Parker, Chair of The American Library Association’s E-rate Task Force, before the Federal Communications Commission Public Forum on Improving Administration of the E-rate Program, May 8th, 2003. See the FCC press release here, and Fraud, waste in school Internet program, from CNN, as well as Schools, Libraries Call for More E-Rate …
This commentary, Search Engines Make Us Dumb, no doubt reflects the perspective of many seasoned online (pre-Web) researchers. There is a steadily growing reliance, among consumers and professionals in many communities, on search engines (or just Google for that matter) as the penultimate tool to search, locate, and analyze data which is then disseminated as …
