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From the New York Times, Computers in Libraries Make Moral Judgments, Selectively, is a commentary by Geoffrey Nunberg who was an expert witness for the American Library Association in their case challenging the constitutionality of the Children’s Internet Protection Act.
Via Slashdot, here is a new search engine for RSS feeds, whose name was briefly Roogle, but currently remains nameless so as to deflect a trademark issue.
From the blog Pleasing to Remember, detailed information on how Washington state’s 700,000 Verizon customers can opt-out of being the recipients of marketing and junk mail from the company. If customers do not indicate a choice to opt-out, Verizon will share their data with affiliates and third parties.
The statistics for ID theft are already registering signficant numbers for a year that is still in its first quarter. According to this press release from the University of Texas at Austin, the university’s computer system was hacked, exposing some 55,200 records that included names and social security numbers of current and past students, faculty, …
The Child Online Protection Act (COPA) was ruled unconstitutional for a second time by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, in a decision ACLU v. John Ashcroft, no. 19-1324, filed March 6. The court stated that “…provisions of COPA are not narrowly tailored to achieve the Government’s compelling interest in protecting minors from harmful material …
New GAO Report: Critical Infrastructure Protection: Efforts of the Financial Services Sector to Address Cyber Threats. GAO-03-173, January 30. Highlights.
Discovery is hampered in an investigation into cost over-runs and project mismanagement on Boston’s Big Dig project, “the largest, most complex and technologically challenging highway project in Amerian history.” Apparently project managers instituted a policy of deleting all project related e-mail messages after thirty days, as reported during a Massachusetts State House Hearing.
LexisNexis Among Top 100 Companies Recognized for its Knowledge Management Innovations for a Second Year in a Row.
BEGINWA.org is a portal, still under development, that promises to provide comprehensive access to local government information (cities and counties) and e-services to assist businesses operating in the state. In future, the site will also provide online forms for payment transactions and permitting.
Hot Off Your News Clicking Service reviews the subscription news reader NewzCrawler, and highlights the attributes of news aggregators in general. There are other reliable news aggregator applications, including free and fee-based alternatives such as the following: AmphetaDesk – http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/ Newsbooster – http://www.newsbooster.com/ RadioUserLand – http://radio.userland.com/newsaggregator Syndirella – http://www.yole.ru/projects/syndirella/
Walt Mossberg, the author of the Wall Street Journal Personal Technology column (no fee req’d), gives a positive review to a nifty fee-based utility, GuruNet, in GuruNet as a Reference Tool Goes Beyond Search Engines. The program costs $35 and is marketed as “the ultimate reference program: encyclopedias, dictionary, thesaurus, companies, celebrities, stock prices, and …
Creative Commons, the unique copyright licensing project that facilitates the sharing of creative works, announced the launch of their new international program “dedicated to the drafting and eventual adoption of country-specific licenses.” Link submitted by Donna Cavallini.