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EPIC has published The Privacy Law Sourcebook 2002, is a good choice for researchers who want to have the full text of major privacy laws and directives in one easy to use source, as well as associated links to privacy resources on the web.
The Progress and Freedom Foundation published their Digital State 2002 report. The 62 page report (in PDF) is based on responses to 50 questions used as benchmarks for the study, and document the evolution and growing importance of e-government web sites. States increasingly use them to collect and manage data on intranets for administrative purposes, …
If you are interested in e-mail press releases, updates, and related resources on the 2004 Presidential campaign, sponsored by the non-profit, non-partisan Minnesota-based group E-Democracy, you may subscribe via this link.
From Salon, Money talks, Microsoft walks; from CBSMarketWatch, Microsoft foes find fault, vow to fight; Washington Post Special Report on the Microsoft Case; from the New York Times, Life With Microsoft Still Stifling for Rivals; from SFGate, Microsoft wins antitrust battle; from the Seattle Times, How Microsoft strategy paid off; and from SiliconValley.com, Microsoft gets …
The Lawyer’s Committee for Human Rights indicated their support for the Global Internet Freedom Act via this letter to Reps. Hyde and Lantos. For more details and background about this bill, H.R. 5524, please see my previous postings here, here, and here.
Law.com’s Supreme Court Monitor has a number of useful resources that include: links to topical news and commentary from the American Lawyer Media family of publications; cases from the 2000 term to current (fee-based for full-text access), abstracts of cases by subject (fee-based for full-text of the decisions), and cases in which cert. was granted, …
The controversial Child Online Protection Act which specifies the “requirement to restrict access by minors to materials commercially distributed by means of the World Wide Web that are harmful to minors,” is currently under review again by U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. In May 2002, the Supreme Court remanded the case, Ashcroft v. ACLU, …
Via Slashdot: Final Decree, Memorandum Opinion, Public Interest Order, Opinion on the State Settlement, and the State Settlement Order. See Microsoft’s PressPass for the company’s official response to the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.’s decision, along with links to an extensive library of documents on the case.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced that they received 52% of their filings for the month of September electronically. This marks a milestone in the agency’s e-government initiative to migrate filings from paper to online format.
The Supreme Court will review a number of cases this week, including United States v. American Library Association, No. 02-361, requiring the use of filtering software by all libraries receiving federal funds. For up-to-date information on this case, see the American Library Association web site on CIPA.
An August 2002 GAO report on Internet Cigarette Sales recommends “giving ATF investigative authority… to improve reporting and enforcement.” According to this TechTV article, states have lost $1.5 billion in revenues from such web sales.
It would appear that the RIAA and their industry colleagues made a quick and deep impression on university presidents with their warning letter on piracy, about which I previously posted here. TechTV reports that the huge volume of P2P traffic, which has stressed the IT infrastructure at UC Berkeley, has resulted in the implementation of …
