According to a January 7, 2003 press release from Privacy & American Business (P&AB), “A majority (56%-91%) of the U.S. public believes it is acceptable for the private sector to use biometric technologies.” The study was funded by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The full-text of the survey is available to P&AB members in the current issue of their Monthly P&AB Electronic Newsletter. However, the organization has provided a link to a PowerPoint presentation, The American Public and Biometrics, by the author of the survey, Dr. Alan Westin, presented in NYC on November 5, 2002. This presentation has detailed data on the survey results.
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Daily Archives: January 10, 2003
Web Radio Signals Fading?
For all of us who stream music from radio stations around the country (and may I add, support them with donations), times are bleak. The Net Radio Act that stipulated a new webcasting royalty rate has not secured the future of music webcasts. This Wired article indicates that humdreds of stations are dropping the feeds… Continue Reading
USPS and Privacy Guidelines
Federal Computer Week reports on efforts underway by the United States Postal Service to create and implement uniform customer data collection activities to meet the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974 as it applies to website transactions. Continue Reading
Online Law School Graduates First Class
Concord Law School, the online law school program in Los Angeles, has its first class of graduates, but the school has no ABA accreditation. The school is owned by Kaplan Higher Education, the ubiquitous test prep company. Continue Reading
New E-Book Software Piracy Issue
The source code for the Microsoft Reader e-book as been hacked and posted online by UK programmer Dan Jackson. The program is aptly named Convert Lit (for the .lit format), and removes Microsoft copy protections from files, thus allowing them to be read on competitiors’ devices. Here is a link to the EU Copyright Commission… Continue Reading
New Blog on Statutory-Construction
Appellate attorney Gary O’Connor, with the Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, D.C., e-mailed to announce his new blog, Statutory Construction Zone, the only one to focus on recent federal statutory-construction cases. Continue Reading
