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The Lawyer’s Committee for Human Rights indicated their support for the Global Internet Freedom Act via this letter to Reps. Hyde and Lantos. For more details and background about this bill, H.R. 5524, please see my previous postings here, here, and here.
The controversial Child Online Protection Act which specifies the “requirement to restrict access by minors to materials commercially distributed by means of the World Wide Web that are harmful to minors,” is currently under review again by U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. In May 2002, the Supreme Court remanded the case, Ashcroft v. ACLU, …
The NASD issued a press release stating their intention to create a public portal for easier and more direct public access to broker-dealer data, as well as to broaded the content of the information provided. With their proposal, for which they seek comments by December 2, the NASD indicates that they are trying to strike …
The Memory Hole reports that a group of 12 members of Congress, lead by California Rep. Henry Waxman sent a letter to
The National Academies of Sciences have issued a statement on Science and Security in an Age of Terrorism. They are seeking to maintain a “balance between scientific openness and restrictions on public information.” The group also references further information in the form of the “Background Paper on Science and Security in an Age of Terrorism.”
Publicly Available Personal Information and Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act was commissioned by the government agency Industry Canada. This 59 page PDF documents the controversy over expanding efforts by the private sector to collect and disseminate personal data via the Web, as well as the availability of such data from court records …
OMB Watch is reporting on government web site scrubbing in a follow-up on this issue that was highlighted in a 9/18/02 article by Education Week.
The Community Technology Network Project (CTNP) is a joint program by the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the New Internet Computer Company (NIC) to provide thousands of Section 8 housing residents with free access to the Web and e-mail. The press release on this program is here.
This story via Reuters offers insight into the role that the Internet is playing in countries where censorship is commonplace.
The Office of Science and Technology Policy, was established in 1976, to….”provide a comprehensive survey of ways and means for improving the Federal effort in scientific research and information handling.” On October 1, the office issued Final Guidelines for Ensuring the Quality of Disseminated Information, pursuant to OMB guidelines.
Professor Jonathan Zittrain and law student/Technology Analyst Ben Edelman are conducting research on Internet filtering in countries worldwide. July 15 marked the release of the first study in the series, reporting some 2,000+ web pages blocked in Saudi Arabia. Zittrain and Edelman have also posted another article, Real-Time Testing of Internet Filtering in China, which …
There is a growing concern in the U.S. about state sponsored Internet censorship in countries throughout the world. Jonathan Zittrain and Benjamin Edelman at Harvard are skillfully documenting this activity. Now Congress is responding to Web filtering with a bi-partisan legislative initiative, H.R. 5524. This bill seeks to “develop and deploy technologies to defeat Internet …
