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On November 13, I posted 9-11 Commission to Gain Access to Selected White House Docs. However, several sources thereafter reported that the commission is now divided over its acceptance of White House terms for access to the documents, which provides that they will be edited prior to the commission’s reciept, to which only two of …
From FAS, news about this CRS report: “The occasional practice of holding closed door sessions of Congress is surveyed in Secret Sessions of Congress: A Brief Historical Overview by Mildred Amer, Congressional Research Service, updated August 5, 2003.”
“Basic Hygiene” for Sensitive Data: “IBM Chief Privacy Officer Harriet Pearson talks about things — mostly simple — companies can do to help prevent identity theft.”
Media Ownership and Democracy in the Digital Information Age – Promoting Diversity with First Amendment Principles and Market Structure Analysis (313 pages, pdf).
Cutting the Tether: Great Resources on Wireless, offers a dozen tips and links by Dennis Kennedy.
From BusinessWeek.com: The Web Smart 50: Areas evaluated include collaboration, customer service, customization, streamlining, management and cutting edge applications. “Meet the masters of the Web. We’ve divided them into six categories and have shown how they’re using the Web to benefit their customers — and themselves.”
Law Firm Management News: “Law firm management news, advice, and commentary for managing partners, legal administrators, and other legal management professionals. [Bag and Baggage]
An EFF advisory addresses a legal challenge (initiated by two Swarthmore students, an ISP and a privacy group) in response to cease and desist orders issued by an electronic voting machine manufacturer. These orders were in response to the publication on the web of some 13,000 pages of internal corporate documents which included extensive discussion …
New worm variant targets identity data: A new twist has been applied to an email worm, called Mimail, that appeared this past August, and it has been harnassed specifically to steal credit card data from customers of PayPal, the online payment service, which is owned by eBay.
Dipping into books online: Is it stealing?: “Amazon.com says its new ‘Search Inside the Book’ feature has boosted sales. But authors worry that people will read just what they need and not buy the book.”
Press release from the Markle Foundation: Study Shows Market Competition and Government Encouragement are Key Drivers of Growth of the Internet in China: “A two-year study of Internet use and its impact in China reveals that the key drivers behind its growth are market forces, including people’s increasing desire to go online and competition among …
This Salon article (sub. req’d, abstract available), Don’t look now, but the dean is watching, focuses on university surveillance of all manner of Internet use by students (music downloads, e-mail, surfing).