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Today’s WSJ and Washington Post report that TIA Director John Poindexter will resign in the wake of the debacle over the proposed “FutureMAP research project…to explore the power of futures markets to predict and thereby prevent terrorist attacks.” See my posting on the background of, and Congressional response to, the FutureMAP research project here. In …
GSA Launches USA Services: “New Initiative Rapidly Connects Citizens with the Federal Government Service Answers Citizens’ Web, E-mail and Telephone Questions in 2 Days or Less.” “USA Services is built on the foundation of three successful information channels, each of which has been providing comprehensive access to federal information and services within its particular medium: …
FBI targets Net phoning: Internet telephone calls are fast becoming a national security threat that must be countered with new police wiretap rules, according to an FBI proposal presented quietly to regulators this month. Learn more about Net telephony – Tutorial on Internet Telephony.
How to Win the Information Battle Lessons from a Modern War “Communication is moving from being a peripheral, specialist responsibility to being an essential and integral element of corporate leadership. No matter the organization government, business, nonprofit the roles of professional communicators who lead communications functions are being reinvented and reinvigorated.”
Bertelsmann will sell BarnesandNoble.com back to Barnes and Noble for $164 million. Barnes & Noble press release on the purchase.
Rep. Mary Bono introduced H.R. 2929, the Safeguard Against Privacy Invasions Act (SPI), to protect users of the Internet from unknowing transmission of their personally identifiable information through spyware programs. Rep. Bono’s press release. “The bill grants the Federal Trade Commission regulatory authority over the SPI Act, and imposes civil penalties for those who do …
“Computer hackers have adopted a startling strategy in their attempts to break into websites. By using the popular search engine Google, they do not have to visit a site to plan an attack. Instead, they can get all the information they need from Google’s cached versions of web pages, say experts in the US.” (link …
From ComputerWorld: “Microsoft Corp. is beefing up its MSN search engine to go head-to-head with Google Inc., but at the same time, it says it has no immediate plans to cancel its agreement for paid search listings with Overture Services Inc., which was recently bought by MSN rival Yahoo Inc.”
This lawsuit, Muslim Community Ass’n of Ann Arbor, et al, v. John Ashcroft and Robert Mueller (July 30, 2003), filed by the ACLU on behalf of Arab-Americans, challenges the constitutionality of Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act. In related news, see this CNN article, ACLU files lawsuit against Patriot Act .
“Copying is Theft …” And other legal myths in the looming battle over peer-to-peer, by Mark D. Rasch, J.D., former head of the Justice Department’s computer crime unit, and now Senior Vice President and Chief Security Counsel at Solutionary Inc. “The RIAA, MPAA and copyright holders describe P2P users as “pirates” – invoking images of …
From today’s Boston Globe editorial, which refers to yesterday’s debacle on the DARPA FutureMap Program : “The Defense Department should sever its ties with Poindexter (TIA Director John Poindexter) before he can humiliate Americans again. Indeed, President Bush should have dismissed him last year and owes the nation an explanation of how his administration nearly …
From SearchDay: “Yahoo News is now incorporating more than 3,500 sources from Moreover’s public metabase of near real-time news content. This is in addition to the full-text coverage provided by dozens of providers, and a wide range of editorially selected coverage.”
