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A User’s Guide to the Stored Communications Act – And a Legislator’s Guide to Amending It, by Orin S. Kerr, George Washington University Law School: Abstract: Americans care deeply about their Internet privacy. But if they want to know how federal law protects the privacy of their stored Internet communications, they’ll quickly learn that it’s …
From the CIA press release, the announcement about the availability of The World Factbook 2003: “This reference work provides a snapshot, as of 1 January 2003, of wide-ranging, hard-to-locate information about the background, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. The nine primary information categories and …
Internet Survives Power Failure: The Internet was for the most part performing normally, despite the power failure, according to Internet performance tracker Keynote Systems. Crash of System Predicted – North American Electric Reliability Council issued a warning to Congress two years ago. See the press release, NERC General Counsel Testifies on Electric Grid Reliabity. The …
According to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, the non-profit Law Library Microform Consortium is creating a digital library, called LLMC-Digital, that will eventually comprise 91,000 volumes (100 million pages) of legal materials, half of which are currently available on microfiche. The beta site is currently available for free, but will become a fee-based service next month. “The …
From Internetnews.com: “A massive power outage has unexpectedly darkened New York and most of New York state as well as other Northeast American cities including Detroit and Cleveland, as well as Toronto and Ottawa in Canada.” Energy/utility related links on blackouts is available from the IRE Resource Center (thanks to Carolyn Edds, Research Director and …
From the Google press release: The Google Toolbar is out of beta, and available for download at http://toolbar.google.com. Google’s free browser utility enables users to search from any page on the web and offers pop-up blocking, web form filling, and a new Blogger button that makes posting to Blogger.com weblogs quick and easy.
What Home Pages Tell (And Don’t Tell) About A Candidate. This article provides screen shots and links to 9 candidate sites, and evaluates them based on the following categories: Ease of contributing money, Excitement, Clarity of purpose, Clarity of message, Amount of useful information, and Professionalism.
From the California Voter Foundation, Special Recall Election Resources includes links to the California Secretary of State website, campaign finance sites, recall election news from local, regional and national newspapers, pro and anti-recall organization links, and candidate websites (not all of those who have declared have one!) From The Sacramento Bee, daily news updates from …
From the Justice Served website, this announcement identifies the top ten court websites chosen from among 900 considered. Two court sites in Washington, D.C. were recognized: the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Columbia and the US District Court for the District of Columbia. [Rory Perry’s Weblog]
Model Rule 1.6 was passed, and Model Rule 1.13 was amended earlier this week during the ABA Annual Meeting. See the following links: new Rule 1.6 and new Rule 1.13. Thanks to Brian Myers, Information Coordinator, ABA Division for Bar Services, for these links, as well as the text below: RESOLVED, That Rule 1.13 of …
From the Washington Post via Cryptome, the resignation letter of John M. Poindexter (Director, Total Information Awareness Office) to Dr. Anthony Tether, Director, Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA), dated 12 August 2003. See also Poindexter Resigns but Defends Programs, Anti-Terrorism, Data Scanning Efforts at Pentagon Called Victims of Ignorance.
A decision from the U.S. District Court, Maryland, July 10, Lowry’s Reports v. Legg Mason, found that the financial services firm had violated copyright terms stipulated by its subscription to Lowry’s report, through the ongoing distribution of the publication’s content on the company’s firm-wide intranet and via e-mail. [From BNA’s Internet Law News]