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Lee R. West, Senior United States District Judge, Western District of Oklahoma, found in favor of U.S. Security, et al., in determining that the Federal Trade Commission did not “have the authority to promulgate a national do not call registry.” The text of the order, issued September 23, is available here, courtesy of EPIC, in …
From Spam Laws, the text of California Business and Professions Code, Division 7, Part 3, Chapter 1, Article 1.8. , Restrictions On Unsolicited Commercial E-mail Advertisers (added by S.B. 186, approved September 23, 2003), and signed by Gov. Gray Davis yesterday, effective January 1, 2004. California law will try to banish e-mail spam California spam …
The House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property Committee on the Judiciary, Joint Hearing with the Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection Oversight, Hearing on the Discussion Draft, H.R. ____, The Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act of 2003, held Tuesday, September 23, 2003: Witness List; …
AB 213 was signed by California Gov. Gray Davis on September 22. This bill would require a manufacturer of a new motor vehicle sold or leased in this state that is equipped with one or more recording devices, commonly referred to as “event data recorders (EDR)” or “sensing and diagnostic modules (SDM),” to disclose that …
From PCWorld, news of the launch, in beta, of Google’s Search by Location service, which “helps you focus your search on a specific geographic location.” Users may indicate search terms, along with an address (US only), city & state, or zip code. The Google FAQ page is here.
From The Salt Lake Tribune: “A group of JetBlue Airways passengers, incensed that the low-fare airline gave their personal information to a defense contractor, on Monday filed a class action lawsuit in Utah on behalf of 5 million passengers.” [thanks to Toby Brown] See also my posting from yesterday which included the link to the …
Homeland Security: Information Sharing Responsibilities, Challenges, and Key Management Issues, by Robert F. Dacey, before a joint hearing of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Science, and Research and Development and the Subcommittee on Infrastructure and Border Security, House Select Committee on Homeland Security. GAO-03-1165T, September 17. Highlights.
From FindLaw, the text of today’s decision, Southwest Voter Registration Ed. Project v. Shelly (pdf).
The Campaign Finance Institute’s Task Force On Presidential Nomination Financing issued a press release on its new report, Participation, Competition, Engagement Reviving And Improving Public Funding For Presidential Nomination Politics.
The Controversy Over New Web Typo Site continues as ICANN issued an Advisory Concerning VeriSign’s Deployment of DNS Wildcard Service, requesting that pending the organization’s review and publication of a report, VeriSign suspend this service. In addition to ICANN’s action, last Friday Popular Enterprises, parent of search engine Nester.com, filed an unfair trade practices lawsuit …
AP reported yesterday that the non-profit Online Computer Library Center, Incorporated (OCLC) has filed a trademark infringement complaint (in the Southern District Court, District of Ohio, Eastern Division), against the Library Hotel, located in Manhattan. At issue is the hotel’s use of the Dewey Decimal Classification system (owned by OCLC) as a theme to identify …
As a follow-up to my previous posting, Airline Passenger Profiling Study Goes Awry, on September 20 the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a complaint with the FTC, stating: “JetBlue Airways Corporation and Acxiom Corporation have engaged in deceptive trade practices affecting commerce by disclosing consumer personal information to Torch Concepts Inc., an information mining …