Promoting Innovation to Prevent the Internet from Becoming a Wasteland. “Markle Foundation President Zoë Baird joins two dozen prominent attorneys, public officials, journalists, industry leaders, public interest advocates, and academics in examining the state of communications policy and media output more than four decades after Minow’s celebrated speech.”
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Daily Archives: May 15, 2003
ICANN Report on WHOIS Privacy
Staff Manager’s Issues Report on Privacy Issues Related to Whois (13 May 2003). Continue Reading
FTC Campaign Against Internet Fraud Escalates
The FTC issued a press release today announcing the filing of 45 criminal and civil actions (state and federal) in conjunction with the SEC, the Postal Service and other state law enforcement agencies, in an aggressive and wide ranging campaign against “Internet scammers and deceptive spammers.” Links are provided to the full-text copies of the… Continue Reading
FBI's Use of Commercial Databases for Intelligence
EPIC published an FBI memorandum (pdf) the organization obtained via a FOIA lawsuit that details how commercial database services are used in accordance with DOJ guidelines to facilitate data mining and “intelligence investigations.” Continue Reading
Commentary on Clicking Through Cyberspace
From Thinkers to Clickers: The World Wide Web and the Transformation of the Essence of Being Human, by M.O. Thirunarayanan, associate professor, Florida International University in Miami). “The growing popularity of the World Wide Web is slowly but surely transforming the lives of human beings who are beginning to make the sad transition from being… Continue Reading
New Legal Blog Search Aggregator
Blawg Search, in beta, allowers users to view and search postings (listed as “top stories” and “new stories”) from 68 (as of this afternoon) legal blogs, including beSpacific. The site also indicates when the page was refreshed. With cookies activated, users may list preferences for content that includes number of results, sorting results by relevance… Continue Reading
New E-Filing System for Courts
Tom O’Connor writes about the release of a new e-filing application that is a joint venture between Microsoft and BearingPoint Inc. (formerly KPMG). The service is currently being tested under contract with the state of Texas, and is based on the open-source LegalXML standard. Continue Reading
New Directory to Google Resources
From the French company indicateur.com, a searchable directory called Google’World, “To find easily and quickly any type of information about the world according to Google.” See this review for more information. Continue Reading
Banking Web Site Scam
PCWorld reports on a scam used against Bank of America customers which lured them via an unauthorized e-mail message to a fake site used to capture their personal data. The article also references a site that collects links to fake banks and examples of bank scam e-mails from around the world, called Scam o Rama. Continue Reading
