On May 8, Senate Select Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts introduced S. 1025: “An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2004 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes.” See also the accompanying report… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: May 2003
Google Adds Regional International News
See Google Branches Out Again with Overseas News, Google News comes to UK, and via Research Buzz, with cascading attribution as follows: “A tip of the hat to Microdoc for announcing that Google’s got a new international version of their news search at http://news.google.com.au. (The Microdoc story is at http://tinyurl.com/bj8y) A tip of the hat… Continue Reading
Stanford Libraries Robot Based Digitization Project
This New York Times article, Library’s robot is a real page-turner, available via the International Herald Tribune, describes a fascinating, ambitious, costly, technically challenging and also interesting from the perspective of fair use, project underway at the Stanford University Libraries. Using a robotic book scanner from 4DigitalBooks, the libraries are undertaking projects to digitize their… Continue Reading
ACLU Report on 9/11
A new 28 page ACLU report (pdf), Freedom Under Fire: Dissent in Post-9/11 America, documents instances of “censorship, surveillance, detention, denial of due process and excessive force” on the part of the government. See the press release here. Continue Reading
Libraries, Digitization and the Future
Two new articles of note from the May 2003 issue of First Monday: Creating the Digital Future by Robert T. Coonrod, President and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), and What is a library anymore, anyway? Continue Reading
FTC Workshops on Protecting Consumer Info
The Federal Trade Commissions Bureau of Consumer Protection announced its sponsorship of new workshops on “Technologies for Protecting Personal Information” to be held on May 14 and June 4, 2003. “The workshops are intended to explore the role of technology in helping consumers and businesses to protect consumer information.” The agenda for the May 14… Continue Reading
Google to Launch Blog Search Tool
Although I already posted a link to this article on May 7, Google CEO Has No Near Term Plans for IPO, I did not pick-up on a statement highlighted by The Register in an article posted today. Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt stated: “Soon the company will also offer a service for searching Web logs,… Continue Reading
Fair Credit Act Reauthorization Hearing
The House Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, held a hearing on May 8, The Importance of the National Credit Reporting System to Consumers and the U.S. Economy. See this link for full-text access to the opening statements of Representative Carolyn Maloney and Representative Rubén Hinojosa, as well as testimony… Continue Reading
Senate Passes Amendments to Surveillance Act
On May 8, the Senate passed, 90 – 4, S. 113, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance bill “to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to cover individuals, other than United States persons, who engage in international terrorism without affiliation with an international terrorist group.” See the text of the floor debate from the… Continue Reading
Successful Law Firm Enterprise Portal
Keith Berkland, applications development manager for Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP, has been a pioneer in the implementation and support of enterprise-wide KM solutions for the firm. See this KM World article for details about his work. Continue Reading
Law Journal on Public Domain Issues
From Duke University School of Law, the Winter/Spring 2003 issue of Law & Contemporary Problems has 13 full-text articles on public domain issues, including Mapping the Digital Public Domain: Threats and Opportunities and Reconciling What the First Amendment Forbids with what the Copyright Clause Permits: A Summary Explanation and Review. The articles and essays in… Continue Reading
Battle Over Release of 9/11 Documents
Several sources have recently reported on the White House refusal to release data and related sources on events that led up to the 9/11 attacks which comprise a 800-plus page Congressional study completed last December. Reasons for the unwillingess to provide the public with access to the currently ‘secret’ report range from the need to… Continue Reading
