US News and WR Publishes Rankings of Top Grad Schools By Category

America’s Best Graduate Schools: “The 2007 rankings are in! The key disciplines include business, law, medicine, engineering, and education. Our directory covers more than 1,200 programs: admissions requirements, financial aid info, student body profiles, starting salaries in your field, and more.” Included are: Top Law Schools Top Library & Information Studies Programs

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Anti-Spyware Coalition Publishes Guides for Consumers and Enterprise

Press release: The Anti-Spyware Coalition today released two new resources to help consumers and enterprises better protect themselves against spyware and unwanted adware…The coalition’s two new documents walk consumers and network operators through the steps they should be taking to protect their machines against adware, spyware and other malicious software.” Protecting Your Network: Mitigating Spyware …

Subjects: Cybercrime, ID Theft, Internet, Privacy

Cell Phone Use Now Considered Integral Tool by Americans

Pew Internet and American Life press release: “How Americans use their cell phones: The cell phone has become an integral and, for some, essential communications tool that has helped owners gain help in emergencies. Fully 74% of the Americans who own mobile phones say they have used their hand-held device in an emergency and gained …

Subjects: Internet

Significant Increase in Readers Visiting Newspaper Websites

Press release: “Eight in 10 adults (116 million) are reading the newspaper over the course of a week, and one in three Internet users (55 million) visit a newspaper Web site over the course of a month, according to the spring 2006 Newspaper Audience Database (NADbase) report released today by the Newspaper Association of America. …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

DOJ Report: Identity Theft, 2004

Press release: “An estimated 3.6 million households, or about 3 percent of all households in the nation, learned that they had been the victim of at least one type of identity theft during a six-month period in 2004, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. Forty-eight percent had experienced an unauthorized use …

Subjects: Cybercrime, E-Government, E-Mail, ID Theft, Internet, Privacy

DOJ Announces Online Info Sharing Toolkit

Press release, March 30, 2006: “The Department of Justice announced today the release of its newest resource for technology and information sharing: Sharing Justice Information: A Capability Assessment Toolkit. The Capability Assessment Toolkit consists of detailed standards and guidelines, which provide law enforcement and criminal justice practitioners a step-by-step process to assess their respective agencies’ …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Hearing on Call to Censure the President

An Examination of the Call to Censure the President, Senate Judiciary Committee, Full Committee, March 31, 2006 Sen. Feingold’s Resolution to Censure the President Testimony: Bruce Fein, Partner, Fein & Fein Lee Casey, Partner, Baker & Hostetler Sen. Patrick Leahy Sen. Russ Feingold Related articles and postings: John Dean Blasts Warrantless Eavesdropping An Update on …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Government Documents, Legal Research, Patriot Act, Privacy

FTC in 2006: Committed to Consumers and Competition

Press release: “Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras today issued the agency’s 2006 Annual Report at the American Bar Association’s Section of Antitrust Law Spring Meeting in Washington, DC. The report, entitled “The FTC in 2006: Committed to Consumers and Competition,” (62 pages, PDF) is available now on the Commission’s Web site and includes …

Subjects: Cybercrime, E-Government, Government Documents, Privacy

Senate Cmte. Approves Protecting Consumer Phone Records Act

Press release, Thursday, March 30, 2006: The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation today approved by voice vote S. 2389, the Protecting Consumer Phone Records Act, which prevents unscrupulous companies and individuals from fraudulently obtaining consumers’ private phone records in a deceptive practice known as “pretexting.” …The Protecting Consumer Phone Records Act, which covers …

Subjects: Congress, Legislation, Privacy