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Federal Prosecution of Human Trafficking, 2001-2005, 10/06. “Presents Federal criminal case processing statistics on peonage and slavery statutes in the U.S. criminal code with a focus on human trafficking offenses created by Congress in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. NCJ 215248” Acrobat file | ASCII file| Spreadsheets (zip format 3K)
Press release, October 4, 2006: “As information security concerns among consumers and other customer constituencies rise, just 29 percent of marketers say that their firm has a crisis containment plan in case of a security breach, according to findings of a major research initiative by the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council. Without such a plan …
Press release: “An Internet business that advertised and sold consumers’ phone records and records of credit card accounts to third parties has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated federal law. The settlement bars the defendants from obtaining or selling consumers’ confidential phone and credit account records unless authorized by law or …
Press release, September 11, 2006: “The Customer Respect Group, an international research and consulting firm that focuses on how corporations treat their online customers, today released findings from its Annual Review of the Largest 100 US Companies… as defined by Fortune Magazine in April 2006. The average rating for the companies was 5.7 on a …
CDT press release: “Evaluating DRM: Building a Marketplace for the Convergent World” tackles the complicated subject of copyright protection technology, offering a clear set of metrics for consumers and product reviewers to consider when evaluating DRM-protected devices and services. The goal of the paper is to educate users about what questions to ask to determine …
Hirwade, Mangala and Hirwade, Anil and Bherwani, Mohini (2006) Evaluative study of major Internet bookshops. ILA Bulletin XLII(1):pp. 32-43. “Internet Bookshops are the online bookshops that allow the user to search the items of his interest, navigate, make a query, communicate, place an order, bargain and negotiate. At its simplest the Internet Bookshop or online …
The Chronicle of Higher Education obtained a copy of the 13 page agreement between Google, Inc. and the Regents of the University of California that details the scope of the digitization project, as well as copyright and ownership issues. Related postings on the Google Book Search Project
Washington Post Op-ed today: The Books Google Could Open, by Richard Ekman, president of the Council of Independent Colleges. eWeek.com: Publishers Fight Back Against Google with New Book Search Service: “Publisher HarperCollins and Austin, Texas-based LibreDigital announced today a hosted service called LibreDigital Warehouse that will give publishers and booksellers the ability to deliver searchable …
Press release: “Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras today told a meeting of the Progress & Freedom Foundation that she has formed an Internet Access Task Force to examine issues being raised by converging technologies and regulatory developments, and to educate and inform the enforcement, advocacy and education initiatives of the Commission. “I also …
Repercussions continue from AOL release of user data — from News.com: Three workers depart AOL after privacy uproar and commentary by Anita Ramastry, Privacy and Search Engine Data: A Recent AOL Research Project Has Perilous Consequences for Subscribers.
Press release: “More than half of the pop-up ads served by nuisance “adware” programs are placed knowingly by advertisers, according to a study released today by the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT).” Following the Money II: The Role of Intermediaries in Adware Advertising (28 pages, PDF)
Personal Information: Key Federal Privacy Laws Do Not Require Information Resellers to Safeguard All Sensitive Data, Full text GAO-06-674, and Highlights, June 26, 2006. “The growth of information resellers–companies that collect and resell publicly available and private information on individuals–has raised privacy and security concerns about this industry. These companies collectively maintain large amounts of …
