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From the Congressional Budget Office, Copyright Issues in Digital Media, August 2004. “This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) paper reviews current copyright law in the United States and considers the unique aspects of digital technology’s challenge to that law. It also examines the prospects for a market-based resolution to copyright disputes over digital content and explores …
“The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) today announced a new effort to expand website usage with the introduction of an e-mail subscription management system…The department will be rolling out the system in phases with the first including several major agencies in addition to the Office of the Secretary and other information available from the DOL …
From AP: Big-time ID Theft A Symptom of Database Culture. This article details the scope and scale of retail credit card fraud and ID theft, crimes which are registering steadily increasing statistics…a downside of the “database nation.”
The devil you dont know: The unexpected future of Open Access publishing by Joseph J. Esposito: “With the advent of the Internet and online publishing, the notion has arisen that access to the worlds research publications could be made available to one and all for free, presumably by shifting the costs to other places in …
“Lawyers representing eight Maryland citizens today filed a petition with the state supreme court seeking to decertify or fix Diebold voting machines that computer security experts have deemed insecure. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), working with over a dozen organizations concerned with voting integrity, has filed a friend of the court brief (PDF, 20 pages) …
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“The Federal Government Is Results Oriented; A Report to Federal Employees,” the Office of Management and Budget, August 9, 2004: “The Federal Government is managing its IT more professionally as a resource for improving results. Seventy percent of the Federal Government’s IT systems are secure, versus 26 percent three years ago; so there is greater …
Yahoo! and Google Resolve Disputes: “Under the terms of the settlement agreement, Google will take a license to U.S. Patent No. 6,269,361 and several related patents, held by Yahoo!’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Overture, and Yahoo! dismissed its patent lawsuit against Google. The two parties have also resolved a dispute regarding shares issuable to Yahoo! pursuant to …
ACLU press release today: “The release of the 38-page report, entitled The Surveillance-Industrial Complex: How the American Government is Conscripting Businesses and Individuals in the Construction of a Surveillance Society, marks the launch of the ACLU’s Surveillance Campaign, which is designed to regain consumers’ personal privacy rights by mobilizing people to contact prominent companies …
Computer Users Share Private Files with Their MP3s Reference: See What You Share on P2P – A Showcase of Material Found on Peer-to-Peer Networks throughout the World. Here you will find “screen shots” of documents that other P2P users are sharing.
Jeremy Wagstaf’s briefly annotated list of RSS Readers includes useful reader comments and suggestions about several applications that may be new to you. Take a look.
This AP article, via CNN, highlights the Ask the White House online discussion forum between citizens and members of the administration. Previous posting on this e-gov initiative. Related article: E-democracy, e-mail and bloggers – quotes from Jimmy Orr, White House Internet Director, on issues related to the “Ask the White House” service.