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New sites fact check politicians, journalists. From the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, FactCheck.org has postings beginning on December 2, 2003 and “monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases.” On January 11, 2004 …
From the FTC’s Identity Theft Data Clearing House, a new report, National and State Trends in Fraud & Identity Theft, January – December 2003. From the January 22 press release: “For the fourth year in a row, identity theft topped the list, accounting for 42 percent of the complaints lodged in the FTCs Consumer Sentinel …
The Boston Globe yesterday reported on a significant security breach involving the House Judiciary Committee server, access to which is shared by both Democrats and Republicans. Passwords meant to provide security for each parties’ respective documents failed due to a security glitch, allowing Republicans unrestricted access to a voluminous amount of Democratic communications. The article …
A Security Analysis of the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE), January 20, 2004: “This report is a review and critique of computer and communication security issues in the SERVE voting system (Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment), an Internet-based voting system being built for the U.S. Department of Defense’s FVAP (Federal Voting Assistance …
The 9/11 Commission has worked diligently to obtain the requisite government documents to fulfill its work by the May 27 deadline, but may seek an extension, which will be opposed by the President and House Speaker Hastert.
Earlier this month the IRS caused a controversy with the requirement that the tax software industry assist the agency in tracking filers who used the IRS Free File system. Yesterday brought an announcement that compliance with this requirement had been postponed “until the end of the current filing season.”
Now Where Was I? New Ways to Revisit Web Sites: “Researchers are finding that despite the early promise of Internet bookmarks, people seem to be abandoning them.” See Keeping Found Things Found, A Research Project of the Information School at the University of Washington.
The pioneering California legislative information website celebrates its tenth anniversary this week. Statistics from last year record that the site averaged almost 12 million requests per month.
OPM reports that usage of the USAJobs portal has increased tenfold, to 31 million users, since its redesign this past summer.
Read the following articles in the new issue of LLRX.com: West Publishing Fires and Sues FindLaw Co-Founder Tim Stanley Public Libraries and the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA): Legal Sources Electronic Guide to the Best Mexican Law Websites Doing Legal Research in Canada – Updated Metaforix@Health: Healthcare, Online and Off Burney’s Gadgets for Legal Pros …
Today the House Judiciary Committee passed the Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act, H.R. 3261. The bill has the backing of global publishers Reed Elsevier and Thomson Corp. The Committee’s press release See my previous postings on the legislation here. House Panel Sparks Database Controversy
From the EFF advisory, Recording Industry Announces Lawsuits Against Music Sharers: “Continuing a crusade against its own customers, the recording industry today announced lawsuits against more than five hundred individuals accused of illegal filesharing. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced it would seek the identity of “John Does” known by the addresses of …