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Daily Archives: April 30, 2003

Presentation on the Digital Library

The Digital Library: Study of Feasibility and Viability (PowerPoint), by Catherine Sanders Reach (ABA Legal Technology Resource Center), presented at the ABATechShow 2003, April 4, 2003.
By the same author, see also this related paper, Digital Libraries, which focuses “on the results of survey research regarding the feasibility and viability of a digital library, funded in part by the American Association of Law Libraries Aspen Law and Business Grant.”

2002 Wiretap Report

Via Slashdot, the Administrative Office of the United States Courts released 2002 Wiretap Report (For the Period January 1 through December 31, 2002), available in pdf. Data includes: Jurisdictions With Statutes Authorizing the Interception of Wire, Oral, or Electronic Communications Intercept Orders Issued by Judges During Calendar Year 2002 (federal and state) Types of Surveillance… Continue Reading

Global Patent System

A single global patent system could simplify the international patent process. Will the United States sign on? See also the Technology Review Patent Scorecard 2003, (full-text available here in pdf), “which tracks the U.S. patent portfolios of 756 of the world’s top technology companies.” Continue Reading

Google Search Tip

From Microdoc News, this useful recommendation on improving your search results using Google. “If you can find a sentence in the Google database which you have just lifted from a website, you can find information you are looking for by writing a sentence in which the information you are seeking may be embedded.” Continue Reading

Treasury Releases New Patriot Act Regs

From the press release: “The Department of the Treasury, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and the seven federal financial regulators today issued final rules that require certain financial institutions to establish procedures to verify the identity of new accountholders.” 326 Final Rule Banks 326 Final Rule MFS Final Rule BDS 326 Final Rule FCM 326… Continue Reading

VA Governor Signs Anti-Spam Legislation

On April 29, Governor Mark R. Warner of Virginia signed two bills constituting the Virginia Computer Crimes Act (SB 1139 – became ch. 1016 and HB 2290 -became ch. 987), which in this press release is lauded as the “toughest such law in the United States,”…as…”half the world’s Internet traffic passes through the Commonwealth of… Continue Reading