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The Commission on Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR) an international organization, disbanded with the publication this month of their final report, Integrating Intellectual Property Rights and Development Policy. The group’s interest was strongly focused on developing countries and their access to the services afforded by technology to the world’s prosperous nations. This ZDNet article summarizes the …
This is a complicated story, an important chronicle of which is published by two recommended sources for which I provide the direct links as follows: journalist Declan McCullagh and the weblog LawMeme (from Yale Law School). The short version is that the Internet Archive has removed all its links to a personal site called Operation …
ZDNet reports that the clock has run out on the possibility of any new privacy legislation this year. However, consumers are not about to let this issue die on the vine, so legislators will try once again in 2003.
OMB issued their Final Infomation Quality Guidelines, setting the standards for all federal agencies in terms of the “quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information disseminated to the public.” It is notable that the guidelines impact the both the availability and extent of data posted to government web sites.
OMB Watch is a non-profit advocacy group that has been shining a bright light on the activities of the Office of Management and Budget since 1983. Post 9/11, their work has become more prominent as they track new government guidelines and regulations that restrict public access to data.
It is unfortunate that this study, “The Politics of State Legislature Web SitesWho Gets Left Out?” is not available online. You can read the press release here. The authors of the study, three professors from Rochester Institute of Technologys College of Liberal Arts evaluated the content available to citizens and journalists who use these sites …
This testimony by Edmund Mierzwinski, Consumer Program Director (U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG), from the September 19, 2002 Oversight Hearing On Financial Privacy and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act (GLBA), represented the views of member of the Privacy Coalition. It is a detailed and well annotated chronicle of the Act’s limitations and …
Johnson Controls conducted a poll of business class frequent flyers that indicated a willingness to undergo fingerprint identification if the techology would help speed the travel process.
This DOJ Factsheet indicates that the Office of Legal Policy will play a major role in Patriot Act related issues of security, privacy and surveillance.
Akamai and Cable & Wireless have been contesting ownership of a patent for disseminating and routing Internet content.
Web site watch-dog Google Watch has filed a complaint with the the Data Inspectorate of Norway, against AllTheWeb, where the company’s parent, Fast Search & Transfer International AS, is based. It alleges that the global search engine is collecting and selling consumer data to DoubleClick, via the use of web bugs, and does not provide …
The Department of Commerce has extended its Memorandum of Understanding with ICANN through September 2003. ICANN manages the .com domain, as well as seven other domains (including .name, .museum, .biz and “.info).