Category «E-Commerce»

Improving Criminal History Records for Background Checks, 2005

Bureau of Justice Statistics – Improving Criminal History Records for Background Checks, 2005: “Describes the achievements of the National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP), its authorizing legislation, and program history. This program report summarizes NCHIP-funded criminal record improvement efforts, including improved accessibility of records, full participation in the Interstate Identification Index, the automation of records …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Government Documents

Amnesty International Releases Report on Search Engine Censorship in China

Press release: “Amnesty International (AI) today released a new report, “Undermining Freedom of Expression in China,” (32 pages, PDF) exposing how Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google have violated their stated corporate values and policies in pursuit of the potentially lucrative Chinese market. In sync with the report release, the organization unveiled irrepressible.info, a new campaign for …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, E-Commerce, E-Government, Search Engines

House Passes Internet Gambling Prohibition and Enforcement Act

Today the House passed HR 4411, the Internet Gambling Prohibition and Enforcement Act. The bill passed by roll call vote #363, 317 yeas to 93 nays. See also: House Approves Boucher-Goodlatte Legislation to Combat Illegal Gambling (July 11, 2006) House votes yes on Net-gambling crackdown

Subjects: Congress, E-Commerce, Internet, Legislation

Another Choice for Online Airfare Purchases

WSJ free feature: Homing In on Lower Airfares – Web Sites Offer New Features To Help Users Time Purchases To Get a Better Travel Deal

Subjects: E-Commerce

Google Launches Online Secure Purchase Service

Press release: “Google Inc. today announced the launch of Google Checkout, a checkout process that makes online shopping faster, more convenient and more secure for Google users. Google Checkout offers an easy and trusted checkout option that enables shoppers to purchase from participating stores with a single Google login.” More information on this Official Google …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Search Engines

Senate Defeats Net Neutrality

In an 11-11 vote today, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation defeated the Communications, Consumers’ Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006 (otherwise known as Net Neutrality). Senate Panel Narrowly Rejects Net Neutrality – Broadband equality proposal may be dead for this congressional year. Related postings on net neutrality

Subjects: Congress, E-Commerce, Internet, Legislation, Search Engines

Industry Leaders Call For Federal Privacy Legislation

The Consumer Privacy Legislative Forum (whose members include Google, Microsoft, Oracle, EBay Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc. and Symantec Corp.) issued a statement supporting “a serious process to consider comprehensive harmonized federal privacy legislation to create a simplified, uniform but flexible legal framework.” Google Official Blog: “On an Internet beset with spyware, …

Subjects: Congress, Cybercrime, E-Commerce, ID Theft, Legislation, Privacy

The Battle for Search Engine Dominance Continues

The un-Google, June 15, 2006, from The Economist print edition (free online, if you view an advert first): “Google dominates the lucrative market for web-search, but its rivals [Microsoft, Ask, Yahoo] are setting out to change that.” Most Microsoft Workers Search With Google – Do employees at Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google use their own search …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Microsoft, Search Engines

Online Banking 2006: Surfing to the Bank

Pew Internet, Online Banking 2006: “Online banking is holding steady as a mainstream internet activity, growing along with internet use generally, though not accelerating as have some other forms of online activities. Fully 43% of internet users, or about 63 million American adults, bank online.” Online Banking 2006: Surfing to the Bank (3 pages, PDF)

Subjects: E-Commerce, Internet

Hearing on Broadband Internet Access, Competition and Consumer Protection

Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Reconsidering Our Communications Laws: Ensuring Competition and Innovation, June 14, 2006. Links to member statements and testimony [HTML] FTC press release on testimony: “The Federal Trade Commission today told the Senate Judiciary Committee that as the Committee considers legislation to amend the Communications Act, it should preserve the FTC’s existing authority …

Subjects: Congress, E-Commerce, Internet, Libraries

Consumer Efforts to Ward Off Span and Spyware Still Fall Short

WSJ free feature: Seeking a Safer Internet – New Tools Flag Sites With Spyware, Spam – But the Technology Is Far From Perfect

Subjects: Cybercrime, E-Commerce, E-Mail, ID Theft, Privacy

Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus 2006 Watch List

Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus 2006 Watch List: “…the Caucus announced they will focus on China and Russia as high priority countries, due to the scope and depth of their piracy problems. The Caucus will also closely monitor the serious problems of copyright piracy in the following countries: Mexico, Canada, India and Malaysia.”

Subjects: Congress, E-Commerce, Intellectual Property

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