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From FAS Congressional Watch, Members Say Pentagon “Transformation” Involves Unprecedented Exemptions from Oversight, letter from Reps. Waxman, Skelton, Obey and Spratt, May 13. “As ranking members of committees charged with overseeing the Department of Defense (DOD), we are writing to raise serious objections to the Department’s legislative “transformation” proposal, also known as the Defense Transformation …
This interesting article from ComputerWorld, Blogs play a role in homeland security, talks about an enterprise blog software application that has been deployed by the Western States Information Network (WSIN), within the Oregon Criminal Justice Division, for law enforcement related efforts on terrorism and drugs. In addition, the article also mentions how bTrade Inc. is …
Overview of State Accessibility Laws, Policies, Standards and Other Resources Available On-line, updated April 2003, “provides an overview of the states that have published on-line their laws, policies, standards or guidelines, and other resources related to accessibility of websites, application development, IT procurement, and public hardware (i.e., the core areas).” The sponsor is the Information …
From the HHS Office on Civil Rights, this comprehensive resource, Medical Privacy – National Standards to Protect the Privacy of Personal Health Information, includes documentation for consumers, general background information, HIPAA regulations & standards, compliance & enforcement, educational materials, and HIPAA-related links.
SearchDay has a review of a new book, Building & Running a Successful Research Business, by Mary Ellen Bates.
How Regional Is Google News? documents the sources and overlapping content as well as accompanying photos provided on the newly released Google international news services for Canada, the UK, India and New Zealand. And not that this should come as a surprise, but in related news, Search engine ratings: Google 55.2 percent global usage share …
From the IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Computers and Communications, which took place April 28-30, this link to the abstract (full-text available for purchase) of The Effects of Search Engines and Query Operators on Top Ranked Results, in which the authors “examine whether the use of query operators changes the documents retrieved by three …
Via Internet Law Blog, this “table listing the monetary awards that companies have received because they were either victorious in an IP infringement lawsuit, or they negotiated deal in the absense/presence of a infringement lawsuit, or related technology litigation such as antitrust,” by Gregeory Aharonian. The chart organizes the information according to the following categories: …
“Senator Charles E. Schumer today urged the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to issue a consumer advisory alert, warning all consumers to be wary of products advertised through the unsolicited commercial e-mail known as spam.” See the press release here.
From afterdawn.com, “A federal appeals court has extended the 14-day deadline for Verizon to give up its subscriber’s personal details to RIAA. The 14-day limit was set by a district court at the end of April.” See my previous posting, Verizon Must Identify Customer In Privacy Case.
Cybercrime’s Scope: Interpreting “Access” and “Authorization” in Computer Misuse Statutes, links you to the abstract and here is the link to download the entire paper (pdf), by Orin S. Kerr, George Washington University – Law School. From the abstract: “In the last twenty-five years, the federal government and all fifty states have enacted new criminal …
The GSA Office of Intergovernmental Solutions just released a study, High Payoff in Electric Government Report, from its Intergovernmental Advisory Board. Major areas identified as exemplifying the success of such initiatives include: “serving constituents, reducing operating costs, consolidating operations and promoting local/regional features.”
