The UK Home Office is recommending, not requiring, the adoption of model guidelines by ISPs to protect children who use web applications that include chat and instant messaging, according to this article. Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2003
Too Much Spam – Reports and Polls Say Yes
A new Harris Interactive poll indicates that 80% of those surveyed dislike spam so much that they would like to see it banned. A new report, from Ferris Research, a San Francisco based market research company, ($1,995 fee) assesses the cost of spam to American corporations in 2003 at more than $10 billion, due to… Continue Reading
Campaign 2002 and the Web
Released today, a new Pew Internet Project report, The Internet and campaign 2002, indicates that there was a growth in the use of websites by Americans seeking news about elections, and candidate information. See also this related article by Marc Glaser, Blogs Go Highbrow and Lowbrow; Net Playing Growing Role in U.S. Elections. Continue Reading
File Swapping Kazaa's Nimble, Global Enterprise
Kazaa, the immensely popular P2P file swapping software that claims to have 163 million users worldwide, remains one-step ahead of law suits for infringement. The company’s catch me if you can business operations model is purposefully convoluted and complex, stretching across three continents, according to this interesting BizReport article. Continue Reading
Medical Advice Via E-Mail and Net
Today’s WSJ has an article on the nascent service of conducting limited medical consultations via the web and e-mail. In a previous post I noted that there are now unified guidelines for physician-patient e-mail. Services such as Med Help International, MayoClinic.com, and Askadoctor.com are all fee-based, and are often used as a interim step between… Continue Reading
108th Congress and Tech Issues
The 108th Congress commenced today with an agenda of technolgy related issues that mirrors those of the 107th Congress. Legislation on privacy, digital rights management, spam, internet taxation and net gambling will continue to generate controversy, heavy lobbying from the entertainment industry, and inevitably consumer dissatisfaction as many of these issues remain unresolved. Continue Reading
Legal Journals on the Web
Via Big Ear from Cornell Law School, here is a useful, well designed site from the York University Law School Library (Toronto) that provides an alphabetical list and links to free legal journals on the web. Continue Reading
IRS To Automate FOI Request Process
Internet News reports that the IRS will implement a completely automated FOI system this year in accordance with requirements of the 1996 Freedom of Information Act Amendments. See this Federal Computer Week article for more information about the new IRS software program, VeFOIA, and its developer. Continue Reading
New Digital Science Library Under Development
The USA Today reported about the efforts currently underway by hundreds of scientists nationwide on the National Science Digital Library, whose goal is to be a “comprehensive source for science, technology, engineering and mathematics education.” The project is funded by the National Science Foundation. Continue Reading
Journal Articles Removed From Online Databases
According to this current Chronicle of Higher Education article, dozens of journal articles have been removed from databases on Elsevier Science since 2000 due to copyright disputes with the authors. Continue Reading
ABA and Internet Jurisdiction
The ABA Cyberspace Law Committee announced the establishment of a new sub-committee, Jurisdiction II, chaired by Michael Geist, that “will work on developing the global jurisdiction survey, and its methodology, to examine the practical effects of Internet jurisdiction issues on companies worldwide.” See this link and scroll down the page where you will find the… Continue Reading
Transportation Manifests Subject to Electronic Monitoring
Yet another post 9/11 related surveillance measure in our near future appears in the January 3, 2003 Federal Register. It is a notice of a proposed rule from the DOJ, Immigration and Naturalization Service, that “requires the submission of arrival and departure manifests electronically in advance of an aircraft or vessel’s arrival in or departure… Continue Reading
