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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a press release January 12 with the names of the ten corporations that received the most patents for 2003. Topping the list was IBM, for the 11th straight year, with Canon Kabushiki Kaisha a distant second, and Sony at number 10.
The Center for Democracy and Technology issued “Proposed Guidelines for Libraries Installing Filtering under Federal Law” during the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting, underway in San Diego. Version 1.0 of Principles for CIPA-Mandated Filtering in Public Libraries “are intended to help libraries that are required to install Internet filtering software under the Childrens Internet Protection …
Federal Computer Week reports on a privacy controversy associated with the highly touted IRS Free File system, which last year was predominently used by low income taxpayers. For 2003 filings, the IRS requested that members of the Free File Alliance (“a Public-Private Partnership between the Internal Revenue Service and software companies in the tax software …
From Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s press release of January 12 on upcoming legislation to implement technology solutions to address the efficient delivery of health care, the proposal includes five major goals: Increasing research on quality of care; providing the public with a standardized reporting system that allows consumers to reliably compare performance; building an information …
Claire M. Germain’s article, Approaches to Statutory Interpretation and Legislative History in France, from the Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law, Vol. 13, No. 3, Summer 2003, is now available online.
Google’s new search features include: airline tracking by flight numbers and Search by Number, and includes UPS tracking numbers, FedEx tracking numbers, USPS tracking numbers, Vehicle ID (VIN) numbers, UPC codes, Telephone area codes, Patent numbers, FAA airplane registration numbers and FCC equipment IDs. Via Google Blogoscoped.
U.S. to Push Airlines for Passenger Records – Travel Database to Rate Security Risk Factors See my previous posts on CAPPS II here.
From the December 29, 2003, Federal Register, this IRS notice: Addition of New Transmitter Encryption Options and Pending – Discontinuance of Non-Encrypted Options for IRS e-file – SUMMARY: Internal Revenue Service will provide the ability for IRS e- file program participants to use approved encryption methods for the 2005 and later filing seasons, beginning with …
From the January 6, 2004 Federal Register, Department of Defense, Department of the Air Force, Final rule: SUMMARY: The Department of the Air Force is revising a (j)(2) exemption to an existing exemption rule for the Privacy Act system of records notice F090 AF IG B, Inspector General Records. The (j)(2) exemption will increase the …
Inbox trauma: New junk-fighting tools falter Anti-spam applications abound, and the CAN SPAM Act promised to lighten the load on your email in-box, but initial reports for this year are far less than reassuring. See also CAN-SPAM means we can spam
Court upholds secrecy over 9/11 detainees
From the Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, the Living Cities Databook Series “permits users to display and download data and rankings for the 100 largest cities in the U.S. on the full complement of indicators displayed in the printed databooks.” Categories include: Population, Race and Ethnicity, Immigration, Age, Households and Families, Education, …