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On March 3, Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) introduced the Children’s Listbroker Privacy Act to ban the oline distribution and sale of personal data on minors. “Commercial list brokers routinely advertise and sell detailed information on children, including names, addresses, ages, and other data, for use in marketing. This data is commonly …
From the Food and Drug Administraton, Drugs@FDA is a “Catalog of FDA Approved Drug Products; Approved and tentatively approved prescription, over-the-counter, and discontinued drugs; Drug approval letters, labels, and review packages. (updated daily) Searchable by Drug Name or Active Ingredient, or Browse by Drug Name.
Paramount Pictures, Corp. and Twentieth Century Fox Films, Corp. v. 321 Studios (March 3, 2004): “A federal judge in New York rules that manufacturing and distributing software for sale that can decode the content scramble system used to encrypt DVDs violates the anti-trafficking provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.” [FindLaw] Statement of Robert Moore, …
About the Blackmun Papers View Highlights Finding Aid for the Collection (HTML) Finding Aid for the Collection (PDF: 410 pages) Selected Bibliography on Harry A. Blackmun Copyright and Restrictions
From the New York Times, Documents Reveal the Evolution of a Supreme Court Justice. Other postings on the Blackmun papers, available to the public beginning March 4, at the Library of Congress. See also from NPR: Justice Harry Blackmun’s Papers, Documents, Oral History Reveal Supreme Court’s Inner Workings From NPR, via the SCOTUSBlog, Nina Totenberg’s …
How I Lost the Big One “In this article adapted from his upcoming book, Eldred v. Ashcroft lead counsel Larry Lessig explains how the decision how to argue Eldred was made, and what he believes went wrong.” [Link from The Eldred Act]
See Hands Off! That Fact Is Mine and Weaker database bill gets House committee vote. See other postings on H.R. 3261, the Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act (DCIMA). See also the Consumer Access to Information Act of 2004, HR 3872. From Wired, Hands Off! That Fact Is Mine
Press release: “Today URAC and Consumer WebWatch (CWW), a project of Consumers Union, released a report that finds problems with access to credible health information on the Internet and makes expert recommendations for improving access to health information for consumers.” Setting the Public Agenda for Online Health Search, A White Paper and Action Agenda (pdf, …
Rough Start For Touch-Screen Voting Machines Scattered glitches as e-voting gets biggest test Super Tuesday puts electronic voting to test
Information Security: Further Efforts Needed to Address Serious Weaknesses at USDA. GAO-04-154, January 30. Highlights.
From the Yahoo press release issued today: “YAHOO! Search launches new content acquisition program providing more relevant, comprehensive online content for users. Includes telationships with NPR, The New York Public Library,…Wikipedia, a free, multilingual online encyclopedia with articles in more than 50 languages; and the National Science Digital Library (NSDL), the National Science Foundation’s online …
This Washington Post (reg. req’d) article reviews today’s arguments in Ashcroft v. ACLU, No. 03-218. Child Online Protection Act (original statute); amended statute. Brief for Petitioner Brief for Respondents