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An interview with Steven Aftergood, Project on Government Secrecy, Federation of American Scientists: Government Secrecy in the Age of Information, by Joe Fitzgerald and Antonia Badway, Biodefense Quarterly, Summer 2003 (a publication of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies).
According to this June 14 Washington Post article, the controversial CAPPS II airline passenger data collection and surveillance program will be scaled back as a result of considerable opposition from the public and advocacy groups. The article also states that “new details about the system are expected to be included in a Privacy Act notice …
Online Locator Software Use Grows: There is growing interest and technology development in identifying online users according to location or geography, called geotargeting or geolocating. Marketing can be targeted to specific zip codes or areas. Although this article states that privacy advocates should not be overly concerned, a range of electronic retailing sectors, including entertainment, …
New Online EIN application process: “An Employer Identification Number (EIN), also known as a Federal Tax Identification Number, is a nine-digit number that the IRS assigns to business entities. The IRS uses this number to identify taxpayers that are required to file various business tax returns. EINs are used by employers, sole proprietors, corporations, partnerships, …
From ALAWON, the American Library Association Washington Office Newsline: “On June 11th, Representatives Joseph M. Hoeffel (PA-D), Sam Farr (CA-D), and House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (MI-D) announced their joint sponsorship of H.R. 2429, the Surveillance Oversight and Disclosure Act. This bill would require greater reporting by the Justice Department on USA PATRIOT Act activities, …
From Internet Magazine, news of the publication, by the UK Information Commissioner, responsible for data protection & freedom of information, of the third part of the Employment Practices Data Protection Code – Monitoring at Work, the Do’s & Don’t for workplace monitoring. Links to these documents, and to the other parts of the guide, are …
From the June 11, Federal Register, notice of Meeting of the Technology and Privacy Advisory Committee (TAPAC). “The purpose of the meeting is for presentations of interest and discussion concerning the legal and policy considerations implicated by the application of advanced information technologies to counter-terrorism and counter intelligence missions.” Related information from Cryptome: Secretary of …
Notification of Agreement Under the Small Webcaster Settlement Act of 2002, Federal Register, June 11, 2003. “The Copyright Office is publishing an agreement which sets rates and terms for the reproduction and performance of sound recordings made by a noncommercial webcaster under the section 112 and 114 statutory licenses.” See also a recent posting with …
Federal Decision Deals With Who Pays the Costs: Judge Shira Scheindlin’s ruling in Zubulake v. UBS Warburg, 02 Civ. 1243, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, May 13, 2003, “lists seven factors to test in order to determine which side of a case should pay for electronic discovery.”
RSS Directory, from blogStreet, “contains a listing of 11,000+ RSS feeds of blogs, making it one of the largest directories of RSS. An added advantage is that the latest feeds of the listed blogs can be read through RSS Discovery – RSS Discovery finds out the RSS feed of a blog, the time when it …
Introduced 6/11/2003, by Sen Charles E. Schumer (NY), S. 1231, A bill to eliminate the burdens and costs associated with electronic mail spam by prohibiting the transmission of all unsolicited commercial electronic mail to persons who place their electronic mail addresses on a national No-Spam Registry, and to prevent fraud and deception in commercial electronic …
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