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From this AP article: “The nation’s librarians, set back by a Supreme Court ruling upholding requirements for Internet filters to block p*****graphy, plan to step up pressure on software vendors to disclose more about how their products work.” Related articles worth a look: Questions and Answers on Web Filtering and this EFF webpage on Examples …
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Online Policy Group (OPG) yesterday announced the release of their joint report, Internet Blocking in Public Schools, A Study on Internet Access in Educational Institutions. “The study found that blocking software overblocked state-mandated curriculum topics extensively — for every web page correctly blocked as advertised, one or more …
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued a ruling on June 20 in AFL-CIO v. FEC, terminating the Commission’s “public release of all investigatory files not exempted from the Freedom of Information Act.” See this article for more information – Appeals court blocks FEC from documents release.
In a 6 to 3 decision (56 pages, pdf) released today in United States v. American Library Association (02-361), the Supreme Court ruled that the Children’s Internet Protection Act does not violate the First Amendment, and Congress can thereby require the use of Internet filters by public libraries receiving federal funds. See also: My related …
From the June 19 Meeting of the DOJ Technology and Privacy Advisory Committee (TAPAC): Statement of Jay Stanley, Communications Director, Technology and Liberty Program, ACLU, on Terrorist Information Awareness.
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program: An Interview with Laura Campbell, Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives Library of Congress. From the ariticle editors: “In January Congress approved the Library of Congress’s Plan for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), which will enable the Library to launch the initial phase of building …
From OMB Watch: In an unclassified memorandum by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), entitled The Consequences of Permissive Neglect, a senior official on the agencys Foreign Denial and Deception (D&D) Committee, James B. Bruce, called for a targeting of the news media, making them legally accountable for leaked information that they publish.
From the Lawyers Committee on Human Rights press release: On June 17, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the government broad authority to withhold the names of hundreds of non-citizens detained in the United States in the post September 11 sweeps. The case, Center for National Security Studies v. DOJ, was on appeal from …
Steven D. Hinckley, Associate Dean for Library and Information Technology & Professor of Law, University of South Carolina, authored, Your Money or Your Speech: The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) and the Congressional Assault on the First Amendment in Public Libraries, in the Washington University Law Quarterly, vol. 80, No. 4, Winter 2002 (via The …
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 …
According to this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education, the National Library of Medicine has created and published freely available standards, called the Journal Archiving and Interchange Document Type Definition (DTD), for the uniform digital publication and distribution of journal content.
