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Enforced Standards Versus Evolution by General Acceptance: A Comparative Study of E-Commerce Privacy Disclosure and Practice in The U.S. and The U.K. “compares U.S. and U.K. e-commerce Web sites’ notice and disclosure practices, their adherence to promises about secondary uses of e-mail addresses, and the state of the market for privacy assurance programs in the …
File Sharers: See If the Recording Industry Is After You: “EFF is assisting Internet users by offering a mechanism for people to check the username they use on a file sharing service against a database of those usernames specified in hundreds of subpoenas the RIAA issued this month to Internet Service Providers (ISPs).” Concerned that …
From the Sacramento Bee: “By some estimates, 200 to 300 spammers, sometimes loosely organized into gangs, are responsible for almost 90 percent of spam — unsolicited “junk” e-mail. They play a high-tech cat-and-mouse game and increasingly use overseas servers to inundate AOL, Microsoft Network, EarthLink and other Internet service providers.”
From Paul Deschner: The Harvard Law School Library has just launched a new website devoted to analysis and digitization of documents relating to the Nuremberg Trials: “Nuremberg Trials Project: A Digital Document Collection” at http://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu. The Library has approximately one million pages of documents relating to the trial of military and political leaders of Nazi …
E-Mail Rules: A Business Guide to Managing Policies, Security, and Legal Issues for E-Mail and Digital Communication, by Nancy Flynn, Randolph Kahn, May 2003.
New position paper from the National Council on Disability – When the Amerians with Disabilities Act Goes Online: Application of the ADA to the Internet and the Worldwide Web. “This paper analyzes and answers the critical question: Does the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) apply to commercial and other private sector Web sites, and if …
Federal Computer Week reported on “a crisis of confidence” in the Thrift Savings Plan” over “an overwhelming backlog of individual transactions” on the Thrift Savings Plan website. See also this press release from the Committee Government Reform on the July 24 hearing “on the customer service provided by the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB), …
KeepMedia Inc., which launches July 28, is a new service from Louis Borders, founder of Borders Books. News about this story was first reported on June 30 by paidContent.org, in the WSJ on July 21, and and today by News.com. This venture will allow subscribers to download content from an archive of more than 140 …
Fast AlltheWeb Q-card, and AllTheWeb Query prefixes: “AlltheWeb supports a number of simple Query Prefixes that allow you to access some basic site functions by simply prefixing your query term(s) with a supported prefix.”
Federal Trade Commissioner Orson Swindle addressed the importance of safe computing practices at a press conference to re-launch GetNetWise, a public service Web site offering resources to make informed decisions about using the Internet. The media briefing is sponsored by the Internet Education Foundation. GetNetWise: Keeping Children Safe Online; Stopping Unwanted E-mail and Spam; Protecting …
Now available on Financial Accounting Standards Board website: FASB StatementsFull Text, Summaries, and Status (required Adobe 5.0 or higher). The links provided on this site allow you to view the full text of all FASB Statements of Financial Accounting Standards issued since the FASBs inception in 1973. (thanks Donna)
From Kent Olson, University of Virginia Law Library: Legal Research in a Nutshell Links provides convenient access to all of the more than three hundred URLs mentioned in the book (Legal Research in a Nutshell, 8th ed., 2003), including appendices. Sites are arranged thematically by chapter and page number, and the list will be updated …