ICANN Completes Negotiations with Applicants for .JOBS and .TRAVEL: “ICANN has completed negotiations with the applicants for the .JOBS and .TRAVEL sponsored top-level domains. The .JOBS and .TRAVEL sponsored TLD registry agreements have been posted on the ICANN website and submitted to the ICANN Board for approval.” Continue Reading
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Advocacy Group Report Counters Assault on P2P Technology
From the Consumer Federation of America (CFA), the following documents: New Report Presents First Analysis of Critical Role of Peer-to-Peer in Technological Innovation, Economic Growth and Consumer Benefits Statement of Mark Cooper on the release of Time for the Recording Industry to Face the Music The full report, 79 pages, PDF: Time for the Recording… Continue Reading
New Services Respond to Growing Consumer Concern With ID Theft
From Internetnews.com, this article on soon to be released fee-based products providing consumers with tracking and alert services on fraudulent activities associated with their personal data. Continue Reading
Proposal to Better Regulate Information Privacy
A Model Regime of Privacy Protection, by Daniel J. Solove, George Washington University Law School, and Chris Jay Hoofnagle, EPIC, March 10, 2005 (14 pages, PDF). “Privacy protection in the United States has often been criticized, but critics have too infrequently suggested proposals for reform. Recently, there has been significant legislative interest at both the… Continue Reading
Corporate Executives and Their Blogs
Look Who’s Blogging – How five executives got blog religion and are using it to their professional and personal advantage. Continue Reading
Commentary on WSJ’s Subscriber Strategy
From Wired, a critique of the Wall Street Journals’ adherence to a fee based subscription strategy that prevents search engine indexing of their extensive, authoritative, and highly regarded content. This in turn results in very limited linking to their articles by a ever expanding community of bloggers and website publishers. The debate should and will… Continue Reading
New York Times Buys About.com
From the New York Times press release today: “Our core purpose is to enhance society by creating, collecting and disseminating high-quality news, information and entertainment. We do this at all of our properties and the same is true of About. Ranking in the top 15 most frequently visited sites, About.com is one of the Web’s… Continue Reading
White Paper Critical of High Tech End User License Agreements
Press release: “Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released a white paper (Dangerous Terms A User’s Guide to EULAs) warning consumers about how they can be harmed by end user license agreements (EULAs) for consumer electronics and online services. Many EULAs contain terms that damage consumer interests, including invitations for vendors to snoop on… Continue Reading
PR Battle Escalates in Anticipation of P2P Antipiracy Case Before Supreme Court
As Piracy Battle Nears Supreme Court, the Messages Grow Manic Legal documents related to the case. Continue Reading
NY Times Articles Will be Featured in Topix.net Search Results
AP reports that the New York Times has a sponsorship agreement with Topix.net to prominently feature its articles on the news aggregator’s site. Continue Reading
Business.com Now Offers People Search
Press release: “Business.com… announced the addition of “People Search” to its core business search capabilities. “People Search” allows business professionals to easily locate and learn about sales prospects, potential business partners, and job candidates on the Web by searching summaries of 24 million business people via a database… (that) continually scans millions of corporate websites,… Continue Reading
Washington Post Examines Data Aggregator ChoicePoint
In Age of Security, Firm Mines Wealth Of Personal Data (reg. req’d): the Post provides an overview of ChoicePoint, described as a “little-known information industry giant.” However, many librarians and researchers are well acquainted with the company’s products, and it has been in the bulls-eye of privacy advocates for selling its vast databases of personal… Continue Reading
