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From ElectionOnline.org, a press release and the link to a new report, Election Reform 2004 – What’s Changed, What Hasn’t and Why (pdf, 72 pages). “A new report finds many of the election problems revealed in Florida and elsewhere during the 2000 presidential campaign have not yet been solved.” See also Votewatch, Your Eye on …
Press release: U.S. Department of Homeland Security Improves America’s Cyber Security Preparedness–Unveils National Cyber Alert System: “The National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today unveiled the National Cyber Alert System, an operational system delivering to Americans timely and actionable information to better secure their computer systems.” The service is …
From Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Law and Technology, the “Berkman Briefings is a reading series that provides background information about major questions related to Internet policy, technology, and law. Every month, the Briefing will cover a new topic.” The RSS for this blog is here.
The critical work of the 9/11 Commission cannot be completed by the May 27 deadline, so the panel yesterday requested an extension through July of this year. This extension is opposed by the President and Republicans including House Speaker Hastert.
The Mydoom email worm’s impact has been felt by most of us already, and threatens to continue its relentless pace around the world for another couple of days. The apparent target of the worm, the UNIX software solutions provider The SCO Group, has offered a $250,000 reward to locate the worm’s creator. See also Symantec …
Report to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act, January 27, 2004 [ResourceShelf]: “Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act (Patriot Act), Public Law 107-56, directs the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ or Department) to undertake a series of actions related to claims …
Martha Watch, from Newsweek Business on MSNBC.com [link from New Media Musings via I Want Media], has updates on the trial, along with lots of commentary.
From the Copyright Office, January 26, 2004: “Upon the recommendation of the Register of Copyrights, the Librarian of Congress is accepting in full the determination of the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP) in the Phase I distribution of the 1998 and 1999 cable royalty funds and is announcing the final Phase I distribution of those …
The Design of International Agreements, by Andrew T. Guzman, University of California, Berkeley – School of Law (Boalt Hall) [Legal Theory Blog]: From the abstract – “This Article explains why rational states sometimes prefer to design their agreements in such a way as to make them less credible and, therefore, more easily violated. In contrast …
9/11 Panel Faults U.S. For Letting Hijackers In The link to the seventh public hearing of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, held January 26-27, unfortunately does not provide the text of witness statements. See also Sept. 11 Panel Says FAA Played Down Suicide Hijacking Possibility, Played Up Explosives Threat
Freedom of Information, A Comparative Legal Study (pdf, 162 pages), by Toby Mendel, published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO): this report describes “the international standards which have been established in this area and some of the key features of effective freedom of information legislation…it illustrates the way in which ten …
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