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California Assembly Bill 578, the Electronic Recording Delivery System Act of 2003, would “authorize a county recorder, upon approval by resolution of the board of supervisors and system certification by the Attorney General, to establish an electronic recording delivery system for the delivery and recording of digitized electronic records affecting the right, title, or interest …
Gearing Up For July 1, 2003 – Senate Bill 1386 – How Does It Affect You?. “On July 1, 2003, Senate Bill 1386 becomes Civil Code 1798.82. In a nutshell, the law states that any person or company doing business in the state of California is responsible for notifying California residents of security breaches to …
Via Declan McCullagh’s Wired article, this link to documents in American Library Association Inc. v. U.S., Civil Actions 2001-1303 and 2001-1322, Three-Judge Court Internet Case, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania (note the Memorandum and Order is 195 pages.) “The court permanently barred the Federal Communications Commission from cutting off funds to libraries that …
According to ALAWON, the ALA Washington Office Electronic Newsline, on May 29 Vermont Governor Jim Douglas signed HB 148, the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA). “This bill included a UCITA (Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act) bomb-shelter provision in its Choice of Law Section. Such bomb-shelter laws have been enacted in four states: Iowa, West Virginia, …
From GPO Access: The Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, May 2003. “The Unified Agenda published twice a year (usually in April and October) in the Federal Register, summarizes the rules and proposed rules that each Federal agency expects to issue during the next six months.” See this link …
DVD-CCA v. Bunner, on appeal before the California Supreme Court, involves the posting of free software for the DeCSS code (to decrypt DVDs) by Andrew Bunner on his website. Prior to the beginning of this case in 2000, the DeCSS code had been published widely on sites around the world. According to SFGate.com, “California Attorney …
Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren addressed a range of issues, including national security, civil liberties and cybercrime, in this speech from May 29.
According to Information Week, “Microsoft will pay AOL Time Warner $750 million and license its Web browser to AOL for seven years to settle an antitrust lawsuit brought by AOL unit Netscape Communications last year.”
In Another Casualty (registration re’q), Margaret M. Jobe, Chair, Notable Documents Panel, American Library Association’s Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) reviews the federal databases and resources that have been removed from the public domain by the Bush Administration in the name of national security, as well as those that may be eliminated in the near …
The new income tax withholding tables are available, in pdf, from the IRS website, reflecting changes from the recent Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003.
The .pro domain, launching July 1, is initially available only to licensed professionals including doctors (med.pro), lawyers (law.pro) and CPAs (cpa.pro).
S.1158, A bill to exempt bookstores and libraries from orders requiring the production of tangible things for foreign intelligence investigations, and to exempt libraries from counterintelligence access to certain records, ensuring that libraries and bookstores are subjected to the regular system of court-ordered warrants, was introduced on May 23 by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA).