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Press release, October 6, 2004: “Rep. Turner, Ranking Member on the Select Committee on Homeland Security, and Rep. Waxman release a new analysis that compares the 41 recommendations made by the 9/11 Commission to H.R. 10, the legislation developed by House Republican leadership being considered tomorrow on the House floor. The analysis finds that the …
“Google SMS (Short Message Service) enables you to easily get precise answers to specialized queries from your mobile phone or device. Send your query as a text message and get phone book listings, dictionary definitions, product prices and more. Just text. No links. No web pages. Simply the answers you’re looking to find.” [Link to …
From Steven Aftergood and the Federation of American Scientists, the following links: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: An Overview of the Statutory Framework and Recent Judicial Decisions, updated September 22, 2004 (90 pages, PDF) Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: Selected Legislation from the 108th Congress, updated September 30, 2004
“The House Judiciary Committee passed the Internet Spyware (I-SPY) Prevention Act of 2004, H.R. 4661, which was introduced by Representative Bob Goodlatte. This bipartisan legislation addresses the most egregious activities that are conducted via spyware and make those activities criminal offenses.” [Link to press release from Rep. Bob Goodlatte] See also House Rpt. 108-698 – …
Appeals Court Re-Opens E-Mail Snooping Case: “Privacy advocates and the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) will get their day in court, again, to appeal a three-judge panel ruling that allows e-mail providers to store and copy their customers’ e-mails.” Via EPIC, Order, U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit, United States v. Councilman, October 5, 2004. …
Via CyberJournalist.net, news about the launch of Newspaperindex.com: “We only include websites with free public access that have a local editorial staff of independent journalists and in most cases a print version as well.”
From Reuters: “German science publisher Springer Science + Business Media will start in January to put all back issues of its 1,250 scientific journals on the Internet, some of which date back to 1886, it said on Wednesday.” [Link]
This news may remind readers of Amazon’s Search Inside the Book service, launched last October. But this time the source is Google, who announced that their Google Print service is no longer in testing mode: “Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Since a lot of the …
“The CIO of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation is among the health-industry executives named to an 11-member federal commission to help the nation develop and implement health-IT standards that will serve as the foundation for establishing a system for universal electronic health records.” [Link] Reference: House Rpt. 108-391 – Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act …
Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence on Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction, which was prepared by Charles Duelfer, chief weapons inspector for the Iraqi Survey Group. This report is in three volumes, comprising 1000 pages, PDF. September 30, 2004. [Link to table of contents, from the CIA website] Key …
NARA prepares for a new era in records management This article provides insight into, and factual data about, the huge challenge and the technology associated with the development and implementation, by the National Archives, of a new online system to manage and make accessible billions of government agency records.
The SPY Act, H.R. 2929, To protect users of the Internet from unknowing transmission of their personally identifiable information through spyware programs, and for other purposes, was approved today by the House. See the accompanying House Report 108-619. See also this related posting, Spy Act Receives Strong Endorsement from House Cmte, the Software Principles Yielding …
