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“As Congress moves into the final wrangling over an update to the Fair Credit Reporting Act designed in part to slow the growth of identity theft, victim advocates are complaining the legislation might actually make things worse. The central issue is one of the oldest debates in American politics: states rights vs. a strong central …
“Software giant Microsoft is testing its answer to Google’s popular news aggregator and search site. “MSN Newsbot”, on MSN UK, France, Spain and Italy, signals at least one of Microsoft’s intentions as it seeks to build out its own search technology.” [Link]
A Google Gambol: Advanced Tricks and Techniques, Greg Notess, Creator, Search Engine Showdown & Reference Librarian, Montana State University Top Tech Trends for Internet Librarians, Elizabeth Lane Lawley, Rochester Institute of Technology The Blogging ExplosionLibraries & Weblogs, Darlene Fichter, Data Services Librarian, University of Saskatchewan Web Searching in 2004, Greg Notess, Creator, Search Engine Showdown …
From the Center on Democracy and Technology (CDT), a new report, Ghosts in Our Machines: Background and Policy Proposals on the “Spyware” Problem” offers a straight-forward review of how spyware programs operate, how to locate and disable them, and federal laws that in some measure address this technology, albeit with less than satisfactory results for …
From InfoWorld, this useful review of the following anti-spam applications for use on the enterprise level: Brightmail Anti-Spam Enterprise Edition Version 5.1, FrontBridge TrueProtect E-mail Security Suite, Postini Perimeter Manager Enterprise Edition, Proofpoint Protection Server 1.2.1, and SpamAssassin 2.44, an open source spam filter included with Red Hat Linux 9.
“Welcome to the official website of the Thatcher Foundation, the largest contemporary history site of its kind. The site offers free access to the full texts of thousands of documents relating to the politics of the last quarter of a century.” [Link] Demand for Thatcher papers threatens to overwhelm website [LisNews]
From PrivacyRights.org, Position Statement on the Use of RFID on Consumer Products: “Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an item-tagging technology with profound societal implications. Used improperly, RFID has the potential to jeopardize consumer privacy, reduce or eliminate purchasing anonymity, and threaten civil liberties. As organizations and individuals committed to the protection of privacy and civil …
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.