From GPO Access: The Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, May 2003. “The Unified Agenda published twice a year (usually in April and October) in the Federal Register, summarizes the rules and proposed rules that each Federal agency expects to issue during the next six months.” See this link to search and browse the current edition (2003), as well previous additions (1994 through 2002).
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Monthly Archives: May 2003
Piracy and Free Speech Issues In California Case
DVD-CCA v. Bunner, on appeal before the California Supreme Court, involves the posting of free software for the DeCSS code (to decrypt DVDs) by Andrew Bunner on his website. Prior to the beginning of this case in 2000, the DeCSS code had been published widely on sites around the world. According to SFGate.com, “California Attorney… Continue Reading
Congresswoman Lofgren Comments on Technology, Security
Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren addressed a range of issues, including national security, civil liberties and cybercrime, in this speech from May 29. Continue Reading
Microsoft Settles Browser Lawsuit With AOL
According to Information Week, “Microsoft will pay AOL Time Warner $750 million and license its Web browser to AOL for seven years to settle an antitrust lawsuit brought by AOL unit Netscape Communications last year.” Continue Reading
Federally Funded Databases Continue to Disappear
In Another Casualty (registration re’q), Margaret M. Jobe, Chair, Notable Documents Panel, American Library Association’s Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) reviews the federal databases and resources that have been removed from the public domain by the Bush Administration in the name of national security, as well as those that may be eliminated in the near… Continue Reading
New Income Tax Withholding Tables
The new income tax withholding tables are available, in pdf, from the IRS website, reflecting changes from the recent Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003. Continue Reading
Here Comes the .Pro Domain
The .pro domain, launching July 1, is initially available only to licensed professionals including doctors (med.pro), lawyers (law.pro) and CPAs (cpa.pro). Continue Reading
Library and Bookseller Protection Act
S.1158, A bill to exempt bookstores and libraries from orders requiring the production of tangible things for foreign intelligence investigations, and to exempt libraries from counterintelligence access to certain records, ensuring that libraries and bookstores are subjected to the regular system of court-ordered warrants, was introduced on May 23 by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA). Continue Reading
New Tax Act Documents Available
From GPO Access: Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 (H.R. 2), TEXT | PDF, Signed into law on May 28, 2003, H.R. 2 amends the Internal Revenue Code to accelerate the increase to the $1,000 child tax credit to include 2003 and 2004. It also maintains the levels and the sunset established… Continue Reading
Analysis of Gov’t Data Mining and Privacy
From the Center for Democracy and Technology, this analysis, Privacy’s Gap: The Largely Non-Existent Legal Framework for Government Mining of Commercial Data, [pdf] May 28, 2003. Quoting from the report, “The government has argued that it should have the same access to consumer data that the private sector has, but in fact it seeks access… Continue Reading
Collection of Bush Privacy Documents
Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists maintains an extensive resource on Bush Administration Documents on Secrecy Policy. Included are links to: Presidential Documents, Related White House Press Briefings, and Other Official Documents on Bush Administration Secrecy Policy. Continue Reading
No More Free E-mail Alerts from NYTimes
The New York Times News Tracker Service through which readers may create and schedule the delivery of topic/search specific e-mail, will be migrated from free to fee. The cost: $19.95 per year for tracking ten alerts. However, as noted by Jonathan Dube, Yahoo! Alerts remains free. Continue Reading
