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“The President’s State of the Union Address was printed in the Congressional Record dated Tuesday, January 31, 2006, on pages H15-19.” Copies of this address, as well as previous addresses given by President Clinton and by President George Herbert Walker Bush are available via GPO Access, in both HTML and PDF formats. C-SPAN has an …
Phone Records For Sale: Why Aren’t Phone Records Safe From Pretexting?, Full Committee on Energy and Commerce, February 1, 2006. Statement of Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee FCC Chairman Martin’s Statement (10 pages, PDF), is available on his agency website. Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On …
Five Ways To Keep Your Google Searches Private: “Word that the government has been seeking search data from Google has struck fear into the hearts of Internet Explorer and Firefox users. Here are five simple steps to keep outsiders from uncovering private information about your Web browsing habits.” See also this posting by Bob Ambrogi …
The complete text of President Bush’s State of the Union address, prepared for delivery Jan. 31, 2006, as released by the White House. Related documents: House Budget Committee Democrats, President Bush and the State of the Union: Budget Promises Made, Budget Promises Broken AP – Analysis: State of the Union Agitated Transcript, Democratic response to …
Press release: “CDT joined with a coalition of industry and public interest groups this week to urge the Federal Communications Commission to delay its controversial Internet wiretapping rules. In comments filed with the FCC [6 pages, PDF, filed January 30, 2006], the groups requested that the commission push back the effective date of the rule …
The DNA.gov initiative offers online training and resources for policy and lawmakers, officers and investigators, forensic scientists, researchers, and victim advocates.
Press release: “A task force of global and European publishers organizations, led by the World Association of Newspapers, has agreed to work together to examine the options open to publishers to assert their rights to recognition and recompense, and to ultimately improve the relationships between content creators/producers and news aggregators and search engines.”
Press release: “For the first time, the National Archives website now includes a new Today’s Document feature, viewable online at www.archives.gov, highlighting a specific document, record or photo from the holdings of the National Archives relating to the current day, and/or current exhibitions and programs at the National Archives. This new feature – available on …
Press release: Microsoft Outlines Policy Framework for Dealing with Government Restrictions on Blog Content
Press release: “The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a class-action lawsuit against AT&T Tuesday, accusing the telecom giant of violating the law and the privacy of its customers by collaborating with the National Security Agency (NSA) in its massive and illegal program to wiretap and data-mine Americans’ communications…In the lawsuit, EFF alleges that AT&T, in …
Legal Times (reg. free) Google Search – Google Goes Beyond Web-Based Democracy Related article, Prying Eyes, by Drew Clark, Technology Daily, January 30, 2006. Related postings: Google Resists Complying With DOJ Demand For Data to Shield Trade Secrets? and Date Set for DOJ v. Google Hearing
Baltimore Sun, January 29, 2006: “A program that was supposed to help the National Security Agency pluck out electronic data crucial to the nation’s safety is not up and running more than six years and $1.2 billion after it was launched, according to current and former government officials.”