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Monthly Archives: June 2003
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
Proposed Standards for Archiving Journal Articles
According to this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education, the National Library of Medicine has created and published freely available standards, called the Journal Archiving and Interchange Document Type Definition (DTD), for the uniform digital publication and distribution of journal content. Continue Reading
Presentation on UCITA and UETA
Commercial Law for the New Commerce UCITA (Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act) and UETA (Uniform Electronic Transactions Act) (PowerPoint) by Patricia Brumfield Fry, Visiting Professor of Law, Wm. Mitchell College of Law. Continue Reading
Survey of E-Government Issues From A Global Perspective
A compilation of studies from the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan, assembled and introduced by Joichi Ito, titled A Report of Research on Privacy for Electronic Government. As indicated in these documents (all in pdf), the development and implementation of electronic government systems in countries throughout the world must address issues related to their respective… Continue Reading
Grants Awarded for Homeland Security Info Gathering
Vivísimo, Inc. issued this press release today concerning nearly $1 million in grants awarded to the company to “enhance and modify [their] on-the-fly document clustering products to help intelligence analysts easily recognize patterns and identify trends from large amounts of unstructured data in many different languages.” Continue Reading
EPIC Files FOIA Lawsuit On Air Passenger Screening
According to this press release, on June 11 EPIC filed suit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Department of Defense (DOD), under the Freedom of Information Act. The complaint seeks “the release of agency records concerning airline passenger screening procedures” (from the CAPPS II airline passenger profiling… Continue Reading
News About GPO Bookstore Closures
Via postings today on Law-Lib, the first from Judith C. Russell, the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, this important information on the status of the bookstores across the country, and the second from Marian Storck, Legal Information Specialist, U.S. Attorneys Office: “Essentially, the bookstore closures result from an overall decline in sales due… Continue Reading
