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The New York Times spotlighted ISP SBC Communications’ refusal to join its competitors in providing customer information in response to the recent avalance of recording industry subpoenas issued to those accused of downloading and sharing music files.
Social Security Numbers: Improved SSN Verification and Exchange of States’ Driver Records Would Enhance Identity Verification. GAO-03-920, September 15. Highlights.
Freedom of Information Act: Agency Views on Changes Resulting from New Administration Policy. GAO-03-981, September 3. Highlights. FOIA Rules Not Seen Affecting Information
From Claire M. Germain, Edward Cornell Law Librarian & Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, this information about the library’s newly designed website: “The Law Library Web Team studied dozens of web sites and solicited input from students before embarking on this major project to ensure that the site was designed from a student’s point …
The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ordered a halt to the recall election of California Gov. Gray Davis, scheduled for October 7. The court cited the fact that “fourty-four percent of the electorate will be forced to use a voting system so flawed that the Secretary of State has officially deemed it …
The press release from the new agency, US-CERT states in part: “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon University, is pleased to announce the creation of the US Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT). The US-CERT will be a partnership between the National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) and Carnegie Mellon’s Computer Emergency …
On September 11, the National Security Archive at George Washington University “posted on the Web a new collection of recently declassified U.S. documents covering the controversial rise to power of Osama bin Laden’s former hosts in Afghanistan, the Taliban. This murky history has particular relevance today, as the Taliban fighters regroup in Afghanistan, and key …
On April 30, 2003 the Department of the Treasury issued final regs on Implementing Customer Identity Verification Requirements under Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act. This Fact Sheet provides details about the Customer Identification Program (CIP), effective October 1, 2003, which will require that financial institutions: Collect identifying information about customers opening an account …
From the independent, free World Legal information Institute, a new one-stop searchable database resource on privacy and FOI resources, the Privacy & FOI Law Project. Full-text and keyword searching are available for content from Australia, New Zealand, Nova Scotia, and the Asia-Pacific.
The September 11 Digital Archive “uses electronic media to collect, preserve and present the history of the September 11, 2001 attacks.” See my previous related posting here.
From the USPTO: Changes To Support Implementation of the United States Patent and Trademark Office 21st Century Strategic Plan (Notice of Proposed Rule Making) (12 Sep 2003)
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