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USA Patriot Act Sunset: Provisions That Expire on December 31, 2005 by Charles Doyle, January 2, 2004 Sensitive Security Information (SSI) and Transportation Security: Background and Controversies, by Mitchel A. Sollenberger, February 5, 2004 See also 49 CFR 1520.7, Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security, Protection of Sensitive Security Information
Alextronic Discovery: “An Electronic Discovery Blog covering news, articles and thoughts for the legal and corporate community,” by Alex Lubarsky. The first posting was 11/09/03. (thanks Ben)
The Extreme Searcher’s Internet Handbook – A Guide for the Serious Searcher, by Randolph Hock, February 2004. The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources, by Barbara Quint (Editor), Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo, January 2004.
“VerifiedVoting.org champions transparent, reliable, and publicly verifiable elections in the United States.” The site includes links to federal legislation on e-voting, voting technologies that provide paper audit trails, announcements on public meetings concerning e-voting security, news from around the web, an e-newsletter, and a list of “established vendors of computerized vote tabulation systems.”
A new report from George Washington University’s Institute for Politics Democracy & the Internet (IPDI): Political Influentials Online in the 2004 Presidential Campaign (pdf, 56 pages).
Microsoft issued a download for Office 2003/XP to allow users to”permanently remove hidden data and collaboration data, such as change tracking and comments, from Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint files.” An important issue in itself, made even more relevant when considered alongside this article by Preston Gralla, published yesterday, about the creation of …
From this release: “The Minnesota Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Rules of Public Access to Records of the Judicial Branch will hold a hearing for public comment on its proposed changes to the rules on Thursday, February 12.” Preliminary Recommendations of the Minnesota Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Rules of Public Access to Records …
Potential legal challenges to the application of the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) in public libraries: Strategies and issues, by Paul T. Jaeger and Charles R. McClure “The legal issues that might be used to challenge the Courts decision include least restrictive alternative, vagueness, overbreadth, request policies, prior restraints, public forum, and limitations on political …
An article in today’s Washington Post focuses on the growing volume of sensitive personal data, aggregated on commercial, corporate, academic and government websites, that is accessible via search engines. Mistakes that result from inexpert programming, server vulnerabilities and configuration related issues facilitate the compromise of personal data, the results of which are chronicled with growing …
From site manager John Doyle: Washington & Lee’s Most-Cited Legal Periodicals: U.S. and selected non-U.S. “has been enhanced with the addition of an article submissions process. This allows authors to sort the journal list in citation-rank order, to select down to a (hopefully) limited list of journals to submit an article to, and then to …
Ron Suskind, has posted 175 pages of source documents cited in The Price of Loyalty, his recent book on the Bush administration. The documents were provided to him by former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill. A February 7 Washington Post article stated in reference to the controversy concerning O’Neill’s receipt of these documents, “The department said …
At E-Gov’s Web-Enabled Government Conference on February 5, the Excellence.gov “Top 5” award winnners were announced as: Small Business Administration’s BusinessLaw.gov Securities and Exchange Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (Edgar) Department of Health and Human Services, National Practitioner Data Bank Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency Department of Defense, Defense Information …