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S.1266, Title: An original bill to permanently authorize certain provisions of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act of 2001, to reauthorize a provision of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, to clarify certain definitions in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act …
Plenty of Room at the Bottom? Personal Digital Libraries and Collections “People are capturing and storing an ever-increasing amount of digital information about or for themselves, including emails, documents, articles, portfolios of work, digital images, and audio and video recordings. Computer processing, storage, and software tools available to individuals are increasing in power, volume, and …
From the June 17, 2005 New York Times: Antiwar Group Says Leaked British Memo Shows Bush Misled Public on His War Plans The Secret Downing Street Memo published by the Sunday Times on May 15, 2005 Follow-up to Conyers’ “Downing Street Memo” Letter to President Bush, June 15, 2005 Additional Co-signers of Letter to President …
FTC press release: “In a report to Congress required by the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (“CAN-SPAM Act”), the Federal Trade Commission says it does not recommend requiring unsolicited commercial e-mail to include a label in the subject line as a means to reduce spam…The report says that although …
From the LA Times, June 17, 2005: “The Bush administration altered critical portions of a scientific analysis of the environmental impact of cattle grazing on public lands before announcing Thursday that it would relax regulations limiting grazing on those lands, according to scientists involved in the study.” BLM Publishes Final Environmental Impact Study on Changes …
Information Management: Freedom of Information Act Fee and Fee Waiver Processing at the Department of Energy GAO-05-405, May 27, 2005. Highlights. “GAO was asked to determine, for fiscal year 2004, the volume and nature of FOIA request processing at the Department of Energy (DOE), to what extent DOE followed the act and related Office of …
Google reportedly plans to start payment service to rival PayPal Will Google Launch E-Payment Service?
Following are links to several related documents worth reviewing on the Google Library Project to digitize the entire collections of participating libraries. Google Library: Peril for Publishers? Michigan Digitization Project Brief Overview (12/13/04) PDF Format Cooperative Agreement between the University Library and Google (PDF Format) Sample Titles Googles Library Digitization Project: Reports from Michigan and …
An e-mail exchange has been passed on to thousands across the UK after a sticky incident at a law firm.
A Fifth of Online Users Who Read Newspapers Now Rely Primarily On Web Editions: “Findings from the latest Nielsen//NetRatings @Plan Summer 2005 research shows that a significant 21 percent of Web users who read newspapers have transferred their readership primarily to the online version, while a majority, or 72 percent, of online users who consume …
“Today, a bipartisan working group of former senior government officials with expertise in homeland security, intelligence, law enforcement, and civil liberties delivered a set of recommendations for reauthorization of the Patriot Act to lawmakers on Capitol Hill. The bipartisan group, co-convened by John Podesta, President of the Center for American Progress, and Richard Falkenrath, former …
According to an article today by Declan McCullagh, the DOJ is reviewing the implementation of “data retention rules that could permit police to obtain records of e-mail, browsing or chat-room activity months after ISPs ordinarily would have deleted the logs–if they were ever kept in the first place.”