From ComputerWorld: “Microsoft Corp. is beefing up its MSN search engine to go head-to-head with Google Inc., but at the same time, it says it has no immediate plans to cancel its agreement for paid search listings with Overture Services Inc., which was recently bought by MSN rival Yahoo Inc.”
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Daily Archives: July 30, 2003
Lawsuit on Patriot Act
This lawsuit, Muslim Community Ass’n of Ann Arbor, et al, v. John Ashcroft and Robert Mueller (July 30, 2003), filed by the ACLU on behalf of Arab-Americans, challenges the constitutionality of Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act. In related news, see this CNN article, ACLU files lawsuit against Patriot Act . Continue Reading
Commentary on File Sharing and Piracy Controvery
“Copying is Theft …” And other legal myths in the looming battle over peer-to-peer, by Mark D. Rasch, J.D., former head of the Justice Department’s computer crime unit, and now Senior Vice President and Chief Security Counsel at Solutionary Inc. “The RIAA, MPAA and copyright holders describe P2P users as “pirates” – invoking images of… Continue Reading
Boston Globe Calls for TIA Director’s Resignation
From today’s Boston Globe editorial, which refers to yesterday’s debacle on the DARPA FutureMap Program : “The Defense Department should sever its ties with Poindexter (TIA Director John Poindexter) before he can humiliate Americans again. Indeed, President Bush should have dismissed him last year and owes the nation an explanation of how his administration nearly… Continue Reading
Yahoo Expands News Coverage
From SearchDay: “Yahoo News is now incorporating more than 3,500 sources from Moreover’s public metabase of near real-time news content. This is in addition to the full-text coverage provided by dozens of providers, and a wide range of editorially selected coverage.” Continue Reading
ACLU Online Discussion of Patriot Act
On Thursday, July 31, the ACLU will be hosting a live online chat discussing the FBI’s broad new surveillance powers under the USA PATRIOT Act. Hear about the Fourth and First Amendment defects to a provision in the law that allows the government to obtain records or personal belongings from any person or entity, including… Continue Reading
Advocacy Groups Respond to New Privacy Bill
The Citizens’ Protection In Federal Databases Act, introduced yesterday by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), is being hailed by civil liberties groups. Wyden is intent on putting an end to the Admiral John Poindexter’s infamous Total Information Awareness Program (TIA), which works hand-in-hand with DARPA…”to integrate technologies developed by DARPA (and elsewhere as appropriate) into a… Continue Reading
DARPA Cancels FutureMap Program
In the July 29 press release announcing the cancellation of the FutureMap program (see my July 28 posting on this subject here), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) stated: “The FutureMAP research project was meant to explore the power of futures markets to predict and thereby prevent terrorist attacks. Futures markets have proven themselves… Continue Reading
