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Quoting from the 16th December 2003 speech by Frits Bolkestein, Member of the European Commission in charge of the Internal Market, Taxation and Customs concering EU Data Protection: “Firstly, clear limits on the amount of data to be transferred with a closed list of 34 elements. Furthermore, the US has undertaken not to require airlines …
The New Millennium Research Council today (NMRC) issued a press release and a report titled, The Future of Internet Phone Calling, Regulatory Imperatives to Protect the Promise of VoIP for Industry and Consumers [Link]. From CNN, see also Firms answer call for Internet phones See also this December 15 letter from EPIC to FCC Chairman …
Fact Sheet: President Bush Signs Anti-Spam Law A link to the CAN-SPAM Act (S. 877, P.L. 108-187, 117 Stat. 2699) is available in this posting. The law is effective January 1, 2004. Today FTC Chairman Tim Muris answered questions about the spam bill submitted by email to through government’s “Ask the White House” online forum.
The GAO failed in their effort to obtain access to essential documents from Vice President Cheney’s National Energy Policy Development Group in order to determine if the nation’s energy policy was influenced by corporations with a financial stake in the outcome. See my August 26 posting for links to relevant documents and commentary on this …
Results Iowa – Accountability for Iowa: “This website is part of our account to you on how we are doing with the responsibilities and resources that you have entrusted to Iowa state government. In one easily accessible place we are sharing our goals at an enterprise level (The Leadership Agenda), and department by department (Departments’ …
InformationWeek conducted a Cyberloafing Study to determine the level of personal use of the web on the job by a group comprising 225 business-technology professionals. Survey says: 91% admit to personal use of the web on the job. Most were using the web to access their personal email and to “search for items of personal …
This BBC article reports on the incredible staying power of the fax machine after three decades of use.
A December 12 ZDNet article provides a link to the Copyright Board of Canada decision, the press release and a fact sheet.
Forging America’s New Normalcy: Securing Our Homeland, Protecting Our Liberty – The Fifth Annual Report to the President and the Congress of the Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction, December 15, 2003: From the press release: “The commission calls on the president to create an independent, bipartisan …
An incisive news article from the December 12 Ohio Times-Reporter presents Congressional and advocacy group perspectives on public access to CRS reports, a controversial issue about which I have posted a number of times. CRS does not maintain a public access website, but online access to selected reports is available through several non-government websites, and …
From the Pew Internet and American Life Project: Wired for Health: How Californians compare to the rest of the nation: A case study sponsored by the California HealthCare Foundation, released December 14, 2003: Table of Contents From the Summary of Findings: “Low-income Californians are more likely than other low-income Americans to go online and to …
From U.S. News, an extensive investigative report on How the public’s business gets done out of the public eye: “For the past three years, the Bush administration has quietly but efficiently dropped a shroud of secrecy across many critical operations of the federal government–cloaking its own affairs from scrutiny and removing from the public domain …