Electronic Access to Criminal Case Files
“Beginning November 1, 2004, all criminal case file documents available to the public at a courthouse also will be available remotely through the court’s electronic access system.” [Link]
Category «Privacy»
Better Technology Needed in the Fight Against Spyware
FTC: Technology, not legislation, needed to fight spyware Orson Swindle, FTC Commission, and Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute, believe that “technology is a better anti-spyware tool than legislation and that it is up to industry to solve the problem, not government.” See the Spy Act (H.R. 2929) and the Internet Spyware …
Advocacy Group Recommends That ISPs Limit Archived Data Logs
Internetnews.com reports on Best Practices for Online Service Providers recommended by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for ISPs who are increasingly confronting DMCA complaints.
Commentary on E-Health Records
Trusting Your Health History to the Web – Digitized medical records can help save lives. But are they secure enough?
Wireless Connectivity and Privacy on Campuses
From CUA CounselOnline, two noteworthly resources: What Are We Going To Do About CALEA? and Can campuses control wireless network access? by Wendy Wigen, Policy Analyst at Educause, [thanks Heidi] . For reference, see the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (CALEA).
Comments From Groups Concerned About Passenger Screening Program
GovExec.com reports on some of the public comments to DHS that document concerns with the TSA’s Secure Flight passenger screening program. Links are provided to comments from organizations including the Business Travel Coalition and EPIC.
New Survey on PC Security Highlights Widespread Vulnerabilities
From the press release: “The AOL/ NCSA Online Safety Study (9 pages, PDF) conducted by technical experts in the homes of 329 typical dial-up and broadband computer users found that most computer users think they are safe but lack basic protections against viruses, spyware, hackers, and other online threats. In addition, large majorities …
Commentary on Gov’t Air Passenger Surveillance Program
By Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, CATO Institute, this article from the San Francisco Chronicle, Surveillance and the War on Terrorism, What’s in a name?, reviews the cycle of name changes associated with the government’s air passenger surveillance database program. Related news from the Washington Post, via MSNBC, With an ever-expanding “no fly” …
Industry Group Launches Website With Resources to Combat Spyware
“GetNetWise is a public service brought to you by a wide range of Internet industry corporations and public interest organizations. The GetNetWise coalition wants Internet users to be only “one click away” from the resources they need to make informed decisions about their and their family’s use of the Internet.”
Advocacy Group Provides Data on Video Surveillance in Manhattan
From the Institute for Applied Autonomy, this information on one of their projects: “iSee is a web-based application charting the locations of closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance cameras in urban environments. With iSee, users can find routes that avoid these cameras (“paths of least surveillance”) allowing them to walk around their cities without fear of being …
Google Launches Free Tool To Search Your PC
From the FAQ: “Google Desktop Search is…a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, computer files, chats, and the web pages you’ve viewed. Search email from Outlook 2000+ and Outlook Express 5+ Search files in TXT, HTML, DOC, XLS, and PPT formats (Office 2000+) Search chats from AOL 7+ and AOL …
Article Maintains Security and Privacy Are Not Mutually Exclusive
K. A. Taipale, Technology, Security and Privacy: The Fear of Frankenstein, the Myth of Privacy and the Lessons of King Ludd, 7 Yale J. L. & Tech. (forthcoming Dec. 2004, 88 pages, PDF): “This paper examines technologies of identification, data aggregation and analysis (including data mining), and collection currently being considered for use in the …
