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Govt Computer Surveillance Rings Alarm Bells Survey Finds U.S. Agencies Engaged in ‘Data Mining’: See the following report, issued today by the GAO – Data Mining: Federal Efforts Cover a Wide Range of Uses. GAO-04-548, May 4. Highlights. “Our survey of 128 federal departments and agencies on their use of data mining shows that 52 …
Committee Print to Amend the Federal Trademark Dilution Act, April 22, 2004. Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, of the Committee on the Judiciary. For reference, see 15 U.S.C. 1125(c)
Who Downloaded the Spyware? Not Me! Coming Soon – the Death of Search Engines? Trends in Blog Searching Change Strategies Are the Key to KM International Commercial Arbitration: Locating the Resources (Revised) Online Legal Information in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden – Updated Metaforix@Health – Prescription Drug Pricing: Issues and Resources Notes From the Technology Trenches …
2004 TechnoLawyer @ Awards: The Legal Profession’s Version of the Oscars.
New Documents Unsealed in ACLU and NYCLU Patriot Act Challenge…see brief and supporting documents.
On May 25, California State Senator Liz Figueroa offered an amended version of SB 1822 which struck language that would have presented substantial obstacles to Gmail’s operation in the state.
From today’s WSJ (subscription req’d), Study Questions Whether Google Really Is Better – “A new survey suggests that Google’s search engine doesn’t necessarily provide significantly better, or more useful, search results than do rivals…Yahoo Inc., Ask Jeeves Inc.’s Ask.com site, Microsoft Corp.’s MSN and Terra Lycos SA’s Lycos delivered correct or useful results almost as …
Testimony of Robert S. Mueller, III, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, May 20, 2004, hearing on FBI Oversight: Terrorism and Other Topics. “…I would also like to acknowledge that the progress the FBI has made in reforming our counterterrorism and intelligence programs is due in no …
From Business Week, a review of the achievements to date of the Terrorist Threat Integration Center, whose mandate is to “fuse and analyze all-source information related to terrorism.”
California workers may have to be told boss is looking at their e-mail: “SB 1841, requires employers to give employees a onetime written notice if they plan to read e-mail, track Internet use, or use other electronic devices to monitor employees on or off the job. The bill requires employers to explain what will be …
See this page, and scroll down to locate the list of links provided to 9 different feeds, including Top Stories, Election 2004 and the latest work from TIME’s columnists.
Blog Software Breakdown via Slashdot, compares features and requirements of the following apps: b2Evolution, Nucleus CMS, Serendipity, SPIP, TextPattern and WordPress.