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From GPO Access: Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 (H.R. 2), TEXT | PDF, Signed into law on May 28, 2003, H.R. 2 amends the Internal Revenue Code to accelerate the increase to the $1,000 child tax credit to include 2003 and 2004. It also maintains the levels and the sunset established …
From the Center for Democracy and Technology, this analysis, Privacy’s Gap: The Largely Non-Existent Legal Framework for Government Mining of Commercial Data, [pdf] May 28, 2003. Quoting from the report, “The government has argued that it should have the same access to consumer data that the private sector has, but in fact it seeks access …
Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists maintains an extensive resource on Bush Administration Documents on Secrecy Policy. Included are links to: Presidential Documents, Related White House Press Briefings, and Other Official Documents on Bush Administration Secrecy Policy.
The New York Times News Tracker Service through which readers may create and schedule the delivery of topic/search specific e-mail, will be migrated from free to fee. The cost: $19.95 per year for tracking ten alerts. However, as noted by Jonathan Dube, Yahoo! Alerts remains free.
From UPI: “A proposed European constitution…calls for an elected president of Europe and a binding bill of rights, but at Britain’s insistence, it drops the notion of creating a federal “United States of Europe.” An edited version of the draft is available here. The full-text of the six documents (in pdf) are as follows: Preamble …
SFGate.com reported on public protests against the Patriot Act by Palo Alto librarians. In addition to the librarians, the article states that the “police chief is supporting a resolution before the Cicty Council next week that would prohibit her department from aiding the FBI in Patriot Act searches, interviews or surveillance without evidence that a …
The New York Times reports on the steadily growing implementation of technology applications in courtrooms around the country, including the use of PowerPoint presentations, video and audio conferencing, the Web, and flat-screen computer monitors. For related information, see the website of the Courtroom 21 Project, “which seeks to determine how technology can best improve all …
From Declan McCullagh, Spam blockers may wreak e-mail havoc, and a series of informative postings (all available at this one link) at his Politechbot.com site, on spam blacklists/blocklists. In related news, see also: How to Unclog the Information Artery.
In Search Privacy: An Issue?, Part 2, Danny Sullivan evaluates the privacy policies and associated data mining applications of Yahoo and Google. Part 1 of this article is here.
Scanning Essentials for Your Office reviews applications, costs and options for creating e-records from text, pictures and images.
H.R. 2214: To prevent unsolicited commercial electronic mail. Sponsor: Rep. Richard Burr (R-NC), introduced 5/22/2003. This Act may be cited as the “Reduction in Distribution of Spam Act of 2003.” Summary from Spam Laws: “The bill would require all commercial e-mail messages to be identified as such (but not with a standard label, except for …
From AP: “A federal jury has ruled that eBay’s model for selling fixed-price merchandise violates a patent filed by a Virginia attorney, a ruling that could force the online auction house to shed as much as a third of its total business. The decision: Mercexchange, LLC v. eBAY, Inc and Half.com, Inc., May 27, 2003 …