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From EPIC.org: “In comments to the Department of the Treasury, EPIC and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group urged the agency to strengthen a proposed guidance on security notices to bank customers. The proposed guidelines specify when a financial institution must give notice to a customer when their personal information has been accessed without authorization.”
From the press release: “Based on direct input from members, the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA), the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), and the Direct Marketing Association (The DMA) today released a set of nine guidelines that call on marketers to institute certain practices that will defend and enhance the viability of legitimate e-mail …
Nolo and Justia have launched a new free recall and warnings site, which focuses on products, food, drug and car recall data. The site is arranged so users may view data by category (currently there are 11), review government notices on recent recalls, or choose to read one of a half dozen featured recall notices …
Today the Supreme Court agreed to review, again, the appeal of the Child Online Protection Act. Links to resources on the Act, as well as related resources, are available in my August 13 posting, DOJ Appeals COPA Decision to Supreme Court.
A recent GartnerG2 survey: Print Publishers Are Uncertain About Their Digital Future [Link]
Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, October 2003, Ten Best Intranets of 2003: 175-page Intranet Design Annual with 97 screenshots of the ten winners is available for download, pdf, $98. [Link] The ten winning intranets are: Amadeus Global Travel Distribution, Spain; ChevronTexaco; Design Matters, Inc., a Web design agency; FIGG Engineering Group, a consultancy specializing in bridges, Fujitsu …
AP published a list of the 26 (of the 94) district courts that currently provide electronic filing and case management.
Weblog of the Global Internet Policy Initiative (GIPI): “The Global Internet Policy Initiative supports adoption in developing countries of the legal and policy framework for an open and democratic Internet. The project works with local stakeholders in consultative, coalition-based efforts to promote the principles of a decentralized, accessible, user-controlled, and market-driven Internet. [thanks to Robert …
The premier issue of the first free journal from the Public Library of Science, PLoS Biology, is now available online, although traffic to the site since the announcement has resulted in intermittent access. From the editorial statement: “PLoS Biology, and every PLoS journal to follow, will be an open-access publicationeverything we publish will immediately be …
According to PCWorld.com, Microsoft may institute automatic security updates via a default option.
This speech, The Beginning of the End of the Internet?” Discrimination, Closed Networks, and The Future of Cyberspace, was delivered October 9 by FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps, at an event sponsored by the New America Foundation, Washington, DC. The Internet …”may be dying because entrenched interests are positioning themselves to control the Internets choke-points …
Assessing Competitive Intelligence Software A Guide to Evaluating CI Technology, by France Bouthillier and Kathleen Shearer Foreword by Chun Wei Choo: “As commercial software products for Competitive Intelligence (CI) have begun to emerge and gain acceptance, potential users find themselves overly dependent on information supplied by the software makers. Reviews and surveys are published from …