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Declan McCullagh reports that the election will have a big impact on key tech legislation as committee chairs change and support for the tech industry is bolstered. See the Information Technology Council High Tech Voting Guide for the 107th Congress, referenced in the second article.
The BBC reports on Singapore’s eCitizen Portal, winner of the Stockholm Challenge 2002 Award for e-government.
Winnie the Pooh is at the heart of a 20 year legal battle with a potentially huge payout in terms of online royalties. Disney and Stephen Slesinger, Inc. both claim copyright control over the commercial rights to the characters that would generate $1 billion in online merchandizing revenues.
In a follow-up to my 10/22/02 posting on trusted computing, globetechnology.com addresses the issue of how PC users will increasingly be forced to comply with industry imposed digital rights management solutions if they want to use most of the applications on the PCs.
Project Vote Smart is a non-profit, non partisan campaign information resource on candidates and issues throughout the country, on the Congressional, state, local and city level. The site is very easy to use, and provides links to candidate bios, campaign finance data, party and issue related web sites, as well as legislative tracking data by …
The Register published an interesting article on how the Supreme Court’s techies sent out e-mail messages with PDF attachments of Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly’s rulings on Microsoft, two hours prior to the announcement of their availability. The Planet PDF weblog was actually a recipient of one of the e-mail messages, and posted a copy of the …
Five travel agencies want to establish a class action in federal court in L.A. against online web travel giant Orbitz. The agencies claim they cannot compete with the site due to unfair practices, and also name three of the site’s backers in the suit: American, United and Delta.
American Online has launched AIM Enterprise Services. Using this technology, companies can now monitor all instant messages sent by employees. In addition, AOL hopes to realize some increased revenue as well, with a per seat cost of $35. See this Washington Post for more information.
Blogwise is a project under development, with a topical and subject index that now includes 244 sites worldwide. There is an eclectic mix of links here, and the site promises to grow rapidly so check-in again to see what else in new and may be of interest.
EPIC has published The Privacy Law Sourcebook 2002, is a good choice for researchers who want to have the full text of major privacy laws and directives in one easy to use source, as well as associated links to privacy resources on the web.
The Progress and Freedom Foundation published their Digital State 2002 report. The 62 page report (in PDF) is based on responses to 50 questions used as benchmarks for the study, and document the evolution and growing importance of e-government web sites. States increasingly use them to collect and manage data on intranets for administrative purposes, …
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