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Information Week reported that “Lt. Col. Doug Dyer, a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), said at an IBM-sponsored conference on data privacy…that Americans must trade some privacy for security.” The Total Information Awareness System is a project of Darpa, under the direction of John Poindexter.
The Washington Post reported on Sunday that the National Museum of Antiquities in Baghdad was looted of its priceless collection and “an extensive card catalog of every item the museum owns, some of which date back 5,000 years, was destroyed.” The deputy director of the museum is quoted as saying, “our heritage is finished.” According …
Information Security: Progress Made, but Challenges Remain to Protect Federal Systems and the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure, by Robert F. Dacey, director, information security issues, before the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Census, House Committee on Government Operations. GAO-03-564T, April 8. Highlights (pdf).
Search Engine Watch launched a redesigned site, as well as a new url, athough the old one still works too. In other search engine news, see this Web Search Relevance Test report (pdf), commissioned by Inktomi, comparing its search engine to Google, Wisenut, FAST, Teoma, and AltaVista. “The goal of the test was to compare …
Jenny, the Shifted Librarian, has linked to her April 9 PowerPoint presentation, Keeping Current Using RSS, from the 5th Annual Government Information Locator Service (GILS) Conference. She also provides a link to an informative workshop outline, Publish and Syndicate Your News to the Web, by Ray Matthews, and to an RSS Feed Reader/News Aggregators Directory. …
Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced the CAN-SPAM bill on April 9 (S. 877), “to regulate interstate commerce by imposing limitations and penalties on the transmission of unsolicited commercial electronic mail via the Internet.” See the Burns press release here. The two Senators also co-sponsored the CAN-SPAM Act of 2001 (S. …
Today the the Copyright Office held a hearing on its Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works. The panel that testified on “compilations of lists of websites blocked by censorware (“filtering software”) applications,” included attorney Jonathan Band (who represents many organizations including the American Association of …
Enterprise Search Engine Technology Strikes Gold offers useful, albeit brief, overviews of how some large companies are leveraging Enterprise Search Engines (ESE) and other supplemental tools as well. “Enterprise Search Engines perform much the same function as Internet search engines, but targeted to the needs of a particular group of people rather than the broad …
Take a moment to look in on this Iraq War Blog by Angela Gunn, whose well-researched and thoughful commentary includes an interesting range of topics and sources of information not necessarily found on other sites.
From Ben Edelman, this link to a report he released today, Empirical Analysis of Google SafeSearch. “The report includes a listing of blocked URLs and of keywords that are particularly intensively filtered, and the site provides a means for users to test whether SafeSearch filtering affects a keyword or URL of interest. See also this …
As a follow-up to my posting yesterday, Legislative Maneuvering to Extend Patriot Act, see today’s press release from Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Leahy Threatens Floor Fight On Move to Repeal Sunset Provisions of The USA PATRIOT Act. More information on this issue tomorrow.
A follow-up to my posting yesterday on FERC’s announcement concerning the temporary removal of Enron e-mails from the agency’s database: Judge Melinda Harmon, United States District Court, Southern District of Texas, has “rejected Enron’s request for a blanket protective order preventing parties from disclosing discovery documents to the public.” This information is via the Reporters …