From ALAWON, the American Library Association Washington Office Newsline: “On June 11th, Representatives Joseph M. Hoeffel (PA-D), Sam Farr (CA-D), and House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (MI-D) announced their joint sponsorship of H.R. 2429, the Surveillance Oversight and Disclosure Act. This bill would require greater reporting by the Justice Department on USA PATRIOT Act activities, including special reports about how library records are obtained and used.”
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Daily Archives: June 13, 2003
UK Guidelines on Employee Web Monitoring
From Internet Magazine, news of the publication, by the UK Information Commissioner, responsible for data protection & freedom of information, of the third part of the Employment Practices Data Protection Code – Monitoring at Work, the Do’s & Don’t for workplace monitoring. Links to these documents, and to the other parts of the guide, are… Continue Reading
DOD Technology and Privacy Advisory Committee
From the June 11, Federal Register, notice of Meeting of the Technology and Privacy Advisory Committee (TAPAC). “The purpose of the meeting is for presentations of interest and discussion concerning the legal and policy considerations implicated by the application of advanced information technologies to counter-terrorism and counter intelligence missions.” Related information from Cryptome: Secretary of… Continue Reading
Copyright Office Publishes Agreement Under the Small Webcaster Settlement Act
Notification of Agreement Under the Small Webcaster Settlement Act of 2002, Federal Register, June 11, 2003. “The Copyright Office is publishing an agreement which sets rates and terms for the reproduction and performance of sound recordings made by a noncommercial webcaster under the section 112 and 114 statutory licenses.” See also a recent posting with… Continue Reading
The Cost of E-Discovery
Federal Decision Deals With Who Pays the Costs: Judge Shira Scheindlin’s ruling in Zubulake v. UBS Warburg, 02 Civ. 1243, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, May 13, 2003, “lists seven factors to test in order to determine which side of a case should pay for electronic discovery.” Continue Reading
Directories of Blogs
RSS Directory, from blogStreet, “contains a listing of 11,000+ RSS feeds of blogs, making it one of the largest directories of RSS. An added advantage is that the latest feeds of the listed blogs can be read through RSS Discovery – RSS Discovery finds out the RSS feed of a blog, the time when it… Continue Reading
New Senate Anti-Spam Bill
Introduced 6/11/2003, by Sen Charles E. Schumer (NY), S. 1231, A bill to eliminate the burdens and costs associated with electronic mail spam by prohibiting the transmission of all unsolicited commercial electronic mail to persons who place their electronic mail addresses on a national No-Spam Registry, and to prevent fraud and deception in commercial electronic… Continue Reading
Anti-Spam Resources
WeCanStopSpam is a Wiki with a clearly stated agenda, providing links to free spam filters, commentary on solutions to the spam problem, and signatures to make spamming more difficult. Continue Reading
More Info On GPO Bookstore Closings
From the June 13 USGPO news release: “With nearly a quarter of a million titles available online and free of charge, and with public retrievals exceeding 32 million every month, GPO Access (www.gpoaccess.gov), a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), has become one of the principal tools for providing public access to official… Continue Reading
Blog on Benefits
Benefitsblog is a tax, benefits and ERISA law commentary and news filter created by B. Janell Grenier, Esq., launched in April 2003. Continue Reading
Study: Global Software Piracy
The 2003 Global Software Piracy Study (14 pages pdf), from the Business Software Alliance, can be viewed according to regional data as follows: North America: Canada / United States Latin America Western Europe Eastern America Middle East/Africa Asia/Pacific Continue Reading
