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See Hands Off! That Fact Is Mine and Weaker database bill gets House committee vote. See other postings on H.R. 3261, the Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act (DCIMA). See also the Consumer Access to Information Act of 2004, HR 3872. From Wired, Hands Off! That Fact Is Mine
From the press release issued yesterday by Senator Conrad Burns: “U.S. Senators Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), today introduced legislation (S. 2145) to prohibit spyware, adware, and other invasive software from being secretly installed on Americans’ computers. For the first time, the SPYBLOCK (Software Principles Yielding Better Levels of Consumer …
Database Protection: How The Current Bill Could Go Beyond Current Law See H.R. 3261, the Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act (DCIMA).
“Citing the model of the Privacy Officer established by statute in the Department of Homeland Security, CDT is urging Congress to create similar positions at other federal agencies as a means of addressing privacy concerns associated with government information practices in the digital age.” See the Statement of James X. Dempsey, Executive Director, Center for …
Fraudulent Online Identity Sanctions Act (Introduced in House), February 3, 2004: HR 3754, To provide additional civil and criminal remedies for domain name fraud. See this posting on the bill by Susan Crawford, Assistant Professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law, and an article from Reuters, Lawmakers Push Penalties for False Web Records. See also …
The bipartisan SAFE Act (S. 1709 and H.R. 3352), “to amend the USA PATRIOT ACT to place reasonable limitations on the use of surveillance and the issuance of search warrants, and for other purposes,” is the target of a veto threat by the White House, delivered by letter from Attorney General Ashcroft to Senate leaders, …
Judge Audrey B. Collins, United States District Court for the Central District of California, ruled a section of the Patriot Act unconstitutional on January 25. >li>”The USA Patriot Act places no limitation on the type of expert advice and assistance which is prohibited and instead bans the provision of all expert advice and assistance regardless …
From the Sunday, January 25 New York Times Magazine, The Tyranny of Copyright? reviews the impact of the Internet in the context of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Copyright Term Extension Act, the Copy Left movement, and the Creative Commons.
The pioneering California legislative information website celebrates its tenth anniversary this week. Statistics from last year record that the site averaged almost 12 million requests per month.
Bush wants Patriot Act renewed. January 20, 2004 State of the Union Address by President Bush (pdf) Patriot Act Comes Into Play – President urges renewal, while amendments languish in Congress beSpacific postings on Patriot Act
From Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s press release of January 12 on upcoming legislation to implement technology solutions to address the efficient delivery of health care, the proposal includes five major goals: Increasing research on quality of care; providing the public with a standardized reporting system that allows consumers to reliably compare performance; building an information …
Senators Lieberman and Corzine called for the Library of Congress to expand content and provide enhanced search features on Thomas, the free, searchable database of federal legislation. [Link]
