Category «Internet»

Federal Communications Commission: Current Structure and Its Role in Changing Telecommunications Landscape

Via FAS – CRS report – The Federal Communications Commission: Current Structure and Its Role in the Changing Telecommunications Landscape, Patricia Moloney Figliola, Specialist in Internet and Telecommunications Policy. April 15, 2016. “The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent federal agency with its five members appointed by the President, subject to confirmation by the …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research

IG Review of NASA’s Information Security Program

Final Memorandum, Review of NASA’s Information Security Program (IG-16-016; A-15-005-01), April 14, 2016. “As part of our annual review of NASA’s compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA) for fiscal year 2015, we reviewed a representative sample of 29 information systems from NASA Centers, Headquarters, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

RightsStatements.org – 11 standardized rights statements for online cultural heritage

“RightsStatements.org is a joint initiative of Europeana and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). Europeana, the Digital Public Library of America, and many other libraries, archives and other cultural heritage institutions believe that everyone should be able to engage with their cultural heritage online. We can help achieve this by providing cultural heritage institutions …

Subjects: Copyright, Digital Rights, Education, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Google Books case ends as Supreme Court will not intervene

WSJ.com: “The Supreme Court on Monday declined to intervene in a case examining whether Alphabet Inc.’s Google engaged in copyright infringement when it scanned millions of books and made them searchable online, a final blow to authors who sued the company. The justices, in a brief written order, said they won’t take up an appeal by the …

Subjects: Copyright, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Six of the Government’s Best Mobile Apps

“There’s an app for everything in this digital age, including hundreds developed by the federal government. Here are six apps that we found especially useful. Smart Traveler – Planning a trip out of the country this year? Smart Traveler by the State Department is great for all your trips abroad. Get the latest travel alerts …

Subjects: Climate Change, E-Government, Economy, Environmental Law, Financial System, Food and Nutrition, Government Documents, Health Care, Housing, Internet, Medicine

Search Engine expert reviews biggest changes in past 20 years

Danny Sullivan: “Today is my 20th anniversary of covering search and search engines. To mark the occasion, I wanted to reflect on some of the big changes that I’ve seen over the past two decades of covering the space.”

Subjects: Internet, Legal Research, Libraries, Search Engines

Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology

“Handbok of the Birds of the World Alive [HBW Alive] has been created by Lynx Edicions, a publishing house founded in Barcelona, Spain, in 1989, and committed to providing high quality ornithology and natural history books. Foremost among these is the Handbook of the Birds of the World, a 17-volume encyclopaedia that describes and illustrates …

Subjects: Environmental Law, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Paper – OPM Demonstrated that Antiquated Security Practices Harm National Security

Handing Over the Keys to the Castle – OPM Demonstrated that Antiquated Security Practices Harm National Security. Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology. July 2015. “In this digital age, information is secured, coveted, and exfiltrated by nation states, hacktivists, and ambitious actors because, now more than ever, knowledge is power. Modern needs dictate that only authorized …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Paper – Gone in Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services

Gone in Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services – Martin Georgiev, Vitaly Shmatikov (Submitted on 10 Apr 2016) “Modern cloud services are designed to encourage and support collaboration. To help users share links to online documents, maps, etc., several services, including cloud storage providers such as Microsoft OneDrive and mapping services such …

Subjects: Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy, Search Engines

Maximizing K-12 Fiber Connectivity Through E-Rate: An Overview

Authored by J. Ryan Thompson, David Talbot, and Keith Krueger – “The federal E-rate program provides up to $3.9 billion annually to subsidize the provision of high-speed Internet access to schools and libraries. Recent revisions to the program greatly expand the options for how such service can be provisioned. Notably, school districts can now seek …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Libraries

Microsoft sues DOJ – demands right to disclose when law enforcement seeks customer data

Microsoft v. The United States Department of Justice, USDC Western District of Washington at Seattle – April 14, 2016: “Microsoft brings this case because its customers have a right to know when the government obtains a warrant to read their emails, and because Microsoft has a right to tell them. Yet the Electronic Communications Privacy …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Commerce, E-Mail, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Legislation, Microsoft, Privacy

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