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A.B. No. 68, the Online Privacy Protection Act of 2003, was amended in Assembly on April 28 and passed by the Committee on Business and Professions on May 7. The bill “requires an operator of a commercial website that collects personally identifiable information about individuals visiting its website or online service, who are located in …
H.R. 21, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Funding Prohibition Act, sponsored by Rep. Jim Leach (R-Iowa), was passed by the House Committee on Financial Services yesterday. See also Hearing on Proposals to Regulate Illegal Internet Gambling, Senate Banking Committee, March 18, 2003, and GAO-03-89 Report, December 20, 2002, Internet Gambling, An Overview of the Issues.
California Assembly Bill 1143, as amended April 30, “would establish new procedures for the production by an Internet service provider or online community host of identifying information regarding a consumer..” The bill is now under consideration by the Committee on Judiciary.
The majority of states attorneys general expressed their opposition to federal anti-spam legislation during the course of the FTC’s three-day Spam Forum currently underway in Washington, D.C. “The states are concerned because both proposals (on the federal level – the CAN SPAM Act and the REDUCE Spam Act) would supersede any state laws, even if …
Resources and news of note on Super DMCA legislation (“to combat broadband and communications piracy”) that is proliferating at the state level, driven in large measure by relentless lobbying on the part of the Motion Picture Assocation of America (MPAA), and which, for the most part, is based on the organization’s proposed model legislation. The …
New legislation introduced on April 10 by Senators Wyden, Clinton and Collins: To require public disclosure of noncompetitive contracting for the reconstruction of the infrastructure of Iraq, and for other purposes (S. 876).
On April 14, New Jersey Governor James E.McGreevey signed S. 1355, which revises New Jersey’s computer crime law to incorporate recent technological changes. See the Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities Committee statement for details of the bill, which “adds definitions of “Internet,” “personal identifying information,””alter, damage or destroy”, and “user of computer services” and makes other …
Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced the CAN-SPAM bill on April 9 (S. 877), “to regulate interstate commerce by imposing limitations and penalties on the transmission of unsolicited commercial electronic mail via the Internet.” See the Burns press release here. The two Senators also co-sponsored the CAN-SPAM Act of 2001 (S. …
This New York Times article, Republicans Want Terror Law Made Permanent, indicates there is a partisan fight afoot on the Hill over a proposal by Sen. Orrin Hatch to make specific provisions of the Patriot Act permanent, rather than allowing them to expire (“sunset”) in 2005 as originally specified. As follows, here is the applicable …
On April 3 I posted on the topic of legislation under consideration in 22 states (and D.C.) to restrict public access to government documents that were deemed to be associated with homeland security. As a follow-up, the Gov. Warner of Virginia has signed two bills, the Sensitive Records Protection Act (HB 2210) and the Freedom …
On April 3, the Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property held a hearing on H.R. 1561, the United States Patent and Trademark Fee Modernization Act of 2003. The Committee provides links to the following: Chairman Lamar Smith James Rogan, Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the …
Library associations including the ALA, AALL and ARL are voicing their collective opposition to the Super DMCA bills about which I posted on March 31. According to letters sent to the Colorado and Arkansas legislatures, the library groups contend that the proposed legislation will erode fair use, and “While digital piracy is a serious problem…some …
