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Web Site Owners May Get Tougher to Find – Proposal could aid infringers on the Net, by Lynne Marek, The National Law Journal: ICANN – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers – is considering a new policy that will allow domain name holders to keep their registration information private.” EPIC Supports Privacy for WHOIS …
“Browse and search is a new way of browsing and searching pages from books in a Web browser using a “widget.” Thousands of titles are available for browsing and searching and are denoted as such with the “Browse and Search” icon. To get started right away, you can search the Random House catalog for any …
Columbia Journalism Review, January/February 2007 – The Race, by Robert Kuttner: “By the usual indicators, daily newspapers are in a deepening downward spiral. The new year brought reports of more newsroom layoffs, dwindling print circulation, flat or declining… Assuming that most dailies survive the transition, my guess is that in twenty-five years they will be …
Testimony of Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, CSAIL Decentralized Information Group Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Before the United States House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet – Hearing on the “Digital Future of the United States: Part I — The Future of the World Wide Web”, March 1, 2007: “Digital …
News.com: “The Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of who uploads photographs or videos in case police determine the content is illegal and choose to investigate, CNET News.com has learned. That proposal surfaced Wednesday in a private meeting during which U.S. Department of Justice officials, …
E-Commerce Times: Developing Best Practices to Combat ID Theft, Part 1 Developing Best Practices to Combat ID Theft, Part 2 Securing Your Online ID: Beyond Username and Password Is That Really You? ID Theft and Authentication, Part 1 New Layers of Defense: ID Theft and Authentication, Part 2
Via FAS, Army Casualty Program 600-8-1, February 28, 2007 (135 pages, PDF): “This consolidated regulation prescribes policies and mandated tasks governing U.S. Army casualty operations, to include casualty reporting, casualty notification, and casualty assistance.” Related postings on casualty data from Iraq
Press release: “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today issued final guidance that describes FDAs current approach to communicating drug safety information, including emerging safety information, to the public. The guidance also includes the factors that influence when such information is communicated. Important drug safety information has the potential to alter the benefit/risk analysis …
CBO Preliminary Analysis of the President’s Budget Request for 2008, March 2, 2007. Budget Options, February 2007 (373 pages, PDF) Testimony on Economic Volatility – statement by CBO Director Peter R. Orszag before the Joint Economic Committee, February 28, 2007 AP: CBO says budget fails to balance by 2012 – “…Bush’s February budget plan would …
Crime Victim Compensation Program Grant Awarded to the Oklahoma Crime Victims Compensation Board, Audit Report GR-80-07-005, January 2007 Use of Equitable Sharing Assets by the Norwalk, Connecticut Police Department, Audit Report GR-70-07-002, February 2007
Department of Justice OIG Report to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act, Special Report, March 2007: “Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act (Patriot Act), Public Law 107-56, directs the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ or Department) to undertake a series of …