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. Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: November 2002
No More Privacy for Employee Instant Messages
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. Continue Reading
Blogs Around the World
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. Continue Reading
2002 Privacy Law Sourcebook
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. Continue Reading
National 2002 Digital State Survey
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,… Continue Reading
Campaign Info Delivered By E-Mail
If you are interested in e-mail press releases, updates, and related resources on the 2004 Presidential campaign, sponsored by the non-profit, non-partisan Minnesota-based group E-Democracy, you may subscribe via this link. Continue Reading
Commentaries on Microsoft Settlement
From Salon, Money talks, Microsoft walks; from CBSMarketWatch, Microsoft foes find fault, vow to fight; Washington Post Special Report on the Microsoft Case; from the New York Times, Life With Microsoft Still Stifling for Rivals; from SFGate, Microsoft wins antitrust battle; from the Seattle Times, How Microsoft strategy paid off; and from SiliconValley.com, Microsoft gets… Continue Reading
Support for the Global Internet Freedom Act
The Lawyer’s Committee for Human Rights indicated their support for the Global Internet Freedom Act via this letter to Reps. Hyde and Lantos. For more details and background about this bill, H.R. 5524, please see my previous postings here, here, and here. Continue Reading
Monitoring the Supreme Court
Law.com’s Supreme Court Monitor has a number of useful resources that include: links to topical news and commentary from the American Lawyer Media family of publications; cases from the 2000 term to current (fee-based for full-text access), abstracts of cases by subject (fee-based for full-text of the decisions), and cases in which cert. was granted,… Continue Reading
Child Online Protection Act Back in Court
The controversial Child Online Protection Act which specifies the “requirement to restrict access by minors to materials commercially distributed by means of the World Wide Web that are harmful to minors,” is currently under review again by U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. In May 2002, the Supreme Court remanded the case, Ashcroft v. ACLU,… Continue Reading
Microsoft Settlement Documents
Via Slashdot: Final Decree, Memorandum Opinion, Public Interest Order, Opinion on the State Settlement, and the State Settlement Order. See Microsoft’s PressPass for the company’s official response to the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.’s decision, along with links to an extensive library of documents on the case. Continue Reading
USPTO Electronic Filings Prevail
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced that they received 52% of their filings for the month of September electronically. This marks a milestone in the agency’s e-government initiative to migrate filings from paper to online format. Continue Reading
