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This represents the text of H.R. 10 as reported by the Committee on the Judiciary. Committee Amendment to H.R. 10, October 1, 2004. (PDF, 625 pages) See also my related posting, September 27, New Draft Legislation Expands on Patriot Act
No-Guilt Downloads: Free Books, Music, and Movies – Where to find public-domain and other free works on the Web. See also Free and Legal Music Downloading Resources on the Web
Reconstructing Electronic Surveillance Law, by Daniel J. Solove. “The USA-Patriot Act made a number of changes in electronic surveillance law, but the most fundamental problems with the law did not begin with the USA-Patriot Act. In this article, Professor Solove argues that electronic surveillance law suffers from significant problems that predate the USA-Patriot Act. The …
From FindLaw: “Memorandum of Understanding (September 20, 2004). Thirty-Two Page Agreement Between Bush And Kerry Campaigns Covering Every Aspect Of The Three Presidential Debates And One Vice-Presidential Debate” [HTML]
From Thomas R. Bruce, Director, Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: We’ve finally unveiled the new version of the US Code…It represents a real improvement over the last version, in that the formatting is far more accurate, we are able to link many more crossreferences than previously, the search engine is greatly improved, and the …
Press release: Vivísimo Launches Clusty.com – Unique New Search Site Brings the Power of Clustering to Web Search, Shopping, People Finding, Wikipedia and More [Link] Vivísimo…today unveiled Clusty.com, the first full-service search site powered completely by breakthrough clustering technology. Instead of simply presenting long lists of results, Clusty.com groups search results into folder topics, giving …
Children’s Private Records Posted Online In Florida
From the September 30 New York Times: Panel Considers Copyright Bill Related posting, Discouraging Online Networked Trafficking Inducement Act of 2004 For reference, see also the Resource Room for the Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004 (formerly known as the INDUCE Act), sponsored by advocacy group Public Knowledge.
Global Concerns: An In-Depth Examination of Travel Web Sites Selling International Airline Tickets “Consumer WebWatch wanted to determine if competition was more or less intense in the international market. The conclusion of this test is that online competition within the international airfare arena is indeed robust. Despite relatively high ticket prices, many of the sites …
In his September 27 posting on the Yahoo! Search Blog, Scott Gatz from the My Yahoo! Team details the new RSS features incorporated in the redesigned My Yahoo! beta release. For additional information, see also New My Yahoo Beta, Featuring RSS and Atom, from Jeremy Zawodny’s blog (Jeremy is a Yahoo developer, author, blogger and …
In a 120 page decision today, Doe and ACLU v. Ashcroft et al., No. 04-CIV-2614, Judge Victor Marreo, Southern District of New York, “struck down an entire Patriot Act provision that gives the government unchecked authority to issue “National Security Letters” to obtain sensitive customer records from Internet Service Providers and other businesses without judicial …
A Starting Point: Legal Implications of Internet Filtering (PDF 16 pages) “In this paper, the Open Net Initiative (ONI) considers some of the legal implications of controlling access to Internet content through filtering. ONI — a research partnership of the Berkman Center, University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, and the University of Cambridge — documents Internet …