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I can certainly say that this story caught my eye. Afterall, who hasn’t considered purchasing a low cost casket via the Web? Well, no time like the present, I guess. The FTC filed an amicus brief in support of competition that would facilitate the sale of low cost “funeral goods” in Oklahoma by those other …
As reported by the Wall Street Journal, Amtrak will run a test in October offering high-speed wireless Web access to travelers who stop at Harrisburg, Philadelphia, and New York, sponsored by the state of Pennsylvania and the ISP, NRoute Communications.
In their report, Domain Name Services: Let Competition, Not ICANN, Rule, the PFF continues what has become steady bombardment against ICANN policies. The author, William Adkinson, senior policy council to PFF, contends there is no need for price regulation as there is already a competitive market to obtain web addresses.
On 9/10/2002, the House Judiciary Committee approved H.R. 4561, the Federal Agency Protection of Privacy Act, that “Requires Federal agencies: (1) when publishing a general notice of proposed rulemaking for any proposed rule or for an interpretative rule involving the internal revenue laws, to prepare, make available for public comment, and publish an initial analysis …
The Electronic Privacy Information Center’s report, Privacy and Human Rights 2002, examines privacy in the context of the events of 9-11 and the impact of these events on fifty countries. The report can be downloaded in three separate parts, in PDF, or purchased from the EPIC bookstore.
This article focuses on the tremendous, time consuming challenges that journalists have had to face to for decades in their efforts to obtain access to federal and state government documents in accordance with theFreedom of Information Act (FOIA), Title 5 of the United States Code, section 552. Subsequent to 9-11, there has been considerable press …
The group behind the blog The End of Free, that includes the extraordinary Tara Calishain of Research Buzz fame, has recently launched a new site, appropriately titled The Start of Fee, dedicated to chronicling web sties that are transitioning from providing free content, to a hybrid free and fee model. The archive on this site …
The UK has implemented a new guidance from the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 , via Home Office Circular 7/2002, sec. 119, allowing police, customers or immigration officers “to make a request to air or ship carriers to provide information about passengers, crew or vehicles belonging to the passengers and crew on any air …
CNET has a special report that is worth review. It includes the following articles: Safety: Assessing the infrastructure risk, Politics: Weighing security against liberties Lessons, and Keeping networks alive in New York.
Fortune Small Business (FSB) columnist Maggie Overfelt offers short reviews and grades for AlltheWeb, Google, MSN, Teoma, WiseNut and Yahoo. Also from FSB, see the article All the Right Moves about the incredible rise in the fortunes of the 4 year old Google, a company that is making what appear to be all the right …
According to this New York Times article, Dr. Raymond Lorie, Research Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center, has been testing a program to preserve digital documents so that they can be read decades into the future, despite the obvious obstacles of the evolution of hardware and software. A paper he wrote on the topic, …
The California State Senate will decide today whether or not to pass the most recent marked up version of Senate Bill 773, the California Financial Information Privacy Act. If passed, financial institutions would be required to obtain written permission from their clients to disseminate, sell or market personal data to third parties.