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The Electronic Privacy Information Center’s report, Privacy and Human Rights 2002, examines privacy in the context of the events of 9-11 and the impact of these events on fifty countries. The report can be downloaded in three separate parts, in PDF, or purchased from the EPIC bookstore.
This article focuses on the tremendous, time consuming challenges that journalists have had to face to for decades in their efforts to obtain access to federal and state government documents in accordance with theFreedom of Information Act (FOIA), Title 5 of the United States Code, section 552. Subsequent to 9-11, there has been considerable press …
The group behind the blog The End of Free, that includes the extraordinary Tara Calishain of Research Buzz fame, has recently launched a new site, appropriately titled The Start of Fee, dedicated to chronicling web sties that are transitioning from providing free content, to a hybrid free and fee model. The archive on this site …
The UK has implemented a new guidance from the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 , via Home Office Circular 7/2002, sec. 119, allowing police, customers or immigration officers “to make a request to air or ship carriers to provide information about passengers, crew or vehicles belonging to the passengers and crew on any air …
CNET has a special report that is worth review. It includes the following articles: Safety: Assessing the infrastructure risk, Politics: Weighing security against liberties Lessons, and Keeping networks alive in New York.
Fortune Small Business (FSB) columnist Maggie Overfelt offers short reviews and grades for AlltheWeb, Google, MSN, Teoma, WiseNut and Yahoo. Also from FSB, see the article All the Right Moves about the incredible rise in the fortunes of the 4 year old Google, a company that is making what appear to be all the right …
According to this New York Times article, Dr. Raymond Lorie, Research Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center, has been testing a program to preserve digital documents so that they can be read decades into the future, despite the obvious obstacles of the evolution of hardware and software. A paper he wrote on the topic, …
The California State Senate will decide today whether or not to pass the most recent marked up version of Senate Bill 773, the California Financial Information Privacy Act. If passed, financial institutions would be required to obtain written permission from their clients to disseminate, sell or market personal data to third parties.
On August 23, 2002, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, issued a decision which was a rare reversal of its own previous decision of January 1, 2001.
A group of California activists are hopping mad, to the tune of a $2 trillion lawsuit against a fax broadcasting company (fax.com, inc.) who they claim is invading their privacy. Cases were filed in both the Northern District of California and in the California Superior Court for Santa Clara County on August 22, 2002. These …
In the Circuits section of today’s New York Times, there is an article about adoption of 24/7 virual reference services by public libraries around the country. These services are provided both by contract employees from their homes during off-hours, and by librarians serving their patrons during scheduled hours when libraries are open. One of the …
On August 28, New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced that a settlement had been reached with publisher Ziff Davis (whose holdings include PC Magazine, Extreme Tech, eWeek and CIO Insight) to resolve a security breach that compromised the personal data of some 12,000 subscribers to its Electronic Gaming Monthly. The agreement stipulates that …
