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The California Senate, in a 25-13 vote on August 31, 2002, killed the Financial Information Privacy Act (SB 773), “which would require a financial institution, as defined, to provide a specified written form to a consumer relative to the sharing of the consumer’s confidential consumer before the financial institution could share the confidential consumer information …
A U.S. District Judge ruled that the California Department of Corrections must allow prisoners, who have no Internet access, to receive printed copies of documents and materials obtained through the Web.
This report provides a New York state perspective on the value of e-government initiatives and examples of successful programs.
Via the new South Dakota Service Direct Portal, the state has made available over 1,100 forms, by service or category. Users may search for forms and download them, or fill them out online and submit them electronically.
The State Department web site had apparently been providing a link to the Republican National Committee web site, in violation of federal laws prohibiting the use of government resources to promote partisan causes. According to an article in the New York Times, the link was removed on September 12.
The national law firm, Morrison & Foerster LLP (known as MoFo), with its main office in San Francisco, sued direct mail marketer Etracks.com Inc., an Oklahoma corporation, and Learn2 Corporation, for spamming the firm’s servers with more than 6,500 unsolicited emails.
The Center for Digital Government has given its first ever award, in the category of Best Digital Legislature, to the Arizona State Legislature Information System (ALIS) web site, which “allows the public to create individualized bill-tracking systems, among many other features and services. Arizona also boasts a 100 percent usage rate of members with laptops.” …
The two author’s of this article, Jeffrey Eisenach and Peter Swire, are former members of the Reagan and Clinton administrations respectively. They concur on the need for the creation “of a new commission on privacy, personal freedom and homeland security.”
NeuStar.com, manager of the “.us” domain, argued against legislation requiring the creation of a “.kids.us” domain during a September 12 hearing held by the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space. The Dot Kids Implementation and Efficiency Act of 2002 was passed by the House on May 21, 2002. NueStar …
From the Legal Information Insitute (LII) at Cornell University, here is a useful site that organizes the Court’s decisions by topic, also providing a brief synopsis of each case, the date decided, and a link to the full-text.
From the current issue of the Journal of Information Law & Technology, this article on Online Dispute Resolution in Business to Consumer E-commerce Transactions reviews online forums for effectively resolving frequent disputes that arise from consumer purchases via the Web, including cross-border disputes.
A new article, Electronic Signatures: A Transatlantic Bridge? An EU and US Legal Approach Towards Electronic Authentication, provides a detailed analysis of how the two parties are approaching the issue of digital signatures in regard to the challenges presented by the e-commerce arena, based on the EU Directive on electronic signatures (1999) and the US …