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From the HHS Office on Civil Rights, this comprehensive resource, Medical Privacy – National Standards to Protect the Privacy of Personal Health Information, includes documentation for consumers, general background information, HIPAA regulations & standards, compliance & enforcement, educational materials, and HIPAA-related links.
SearchDay has a review of a new book, Building & Running a Successful Research Business, by Mary Ellen Bates.
How Regional Is Google News? documents the sources and overlapping content as well as accompanying photos provided on the newly released Google international news services for Canada, the UK, India and New Zealand. And not that this should come as a surprise, but in related news, Search engine ratings: Google 55.2 percent global usage share …
From the IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Computers and Communications, which took place April 28-30, this link to the abstract (full-text available for purchase) of The Effects of Search Engines and Query Operators on Top Ranked Results, in which the authors “examine whether the use of query operators changes the documents retrieved by three …
Via Internet Law Blog, this “table listing the monetary awards that companies have received because they were either victorious in an IP infringement lawsuit, or they negotiated deal in the absense/presence of a infringement lawsuit, or related technology litigation such as antitrust,” by Gregeory Aharonian. The chart organizes the information according to the following categories: …
“Senator Charles E. Schumer today urged the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to issue a consumer advisory alert, warning all consumers to be wary of products advertised through the unsolicited commercial e-mail known as spam.” See the press release here.
From afterdawn.com, “A federal appeals court has extended the 14-day deadline for Verizon to give up its subscriber’s personal details to RIAA. The 14-day limit was set by a district court at the end of April.” See my previous posting, Verizon Must Identify Customer In Privacy Case.
Cybercrime’s Scope: Interpreting “Access” and “Authorization” in Computer Misuse Statutes, links you to the abstract and here is the link to download the entire paper (pdf), by Orin S. Kerr, George Washington University – Law School. From the abstract: “In the last twenty-five years, the federal government and all fifty states have enacted new criminal …
The GSA Office of Intergovernmental Solutions just released a study, High Payoff in Electric Government Report, from its Intergovernmental Advisory Board. Major areas identified as exemplifying the success of such initiatives include: “serving constituents, reducing operating costs, consolidating operations and promoting local/regional features.”
Law Provides Needed Tools, by Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Op-ed column from May 12 USA Today.
The scale, scope and challenges inherent in the successful implementation of large-scale e-gov initiatives is well defined by this article, NASA rethinks Web site approach, which states that “the agency has more than 3,000 Web sites hosting 4 million pages of information,” which it is now working to make accessible via the main website.
From Spamabuse.net, this link to spam e-mail blocking and filtering applications/services (free and commercial) available to Windows, Mac and Linux users.