From the American Library Association Washington Office Newsline: “On July 31, 2003, Senator Feingold (D-WI), joined by Senators Bingaman (D-NM), Kennedy (D-MA), Cantwell (D-WA), Durbin (D-IL), Wyden (D-OR), Corzine (D-NJ), Akaka (D-HI), and Jeffords (I-VT), introduced the Library, Bookseller, and Personal Records Privacy Act (S. 1507). The bill would amend the PATRIOT Act to protect the privacy of law-abiding Americans and set reasonable limits on the federal government’s access to library, bookseller, medical, and other sensitive, personal information under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and related foreign intelligence authority.”
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Daily Archives: July 31, 2003
Total Information Awareness Director to Resign and Passenger Screening Progam Scaled Back
Today’s WSJ and Washington Post report that TIA Director John Poindexter will resign in the wake of the debacle over the proposed “FutureMAP research project…to explore the power of futures markets to predict and thereby prevent terrorist attacks.” See my posting on the background of, and Congressional response to, the FutureMAP research project here. In… Continue Reading
New E-Gov Program for Public Access to Federal Info
GSA Launches USA Services: “New Initiative Rapidly Connects Citizens with the Federal Government Service Answers Citizens’ Web, E-mail and Telephone Questions in 2 Days or Less.” “USA Services is built on the foundation of three successful information channels, each of which has been providing comprehensive access to federal information and services within its particular medium:… Continue Reading
FBI and Digital Wiretapping
FBI targets Net phoning: Internet telephone calls are fast becoming a national security threat that must be countered with new police wiretap rules, according to an FBI proposal presented quietly to regulators this month. Learn more about Net telephony – Tutorial on Internet Telephony. Continue Reading
Best Practices for Managing Information
How to Win the Information Battle Lessons from a Modern War “Communication is moving from being a peripheral, specialist responsibility to being an essential and integral element of corporate leadership. No matter the organization government, business, nonprofit the roles of professional communicators who lead communications functions are being reinvented and reinvigorated.” Continue Reading
Bertelsmann Selling BarnesandNoble.com
Bertelsmann will sell BarnesandNoble.com back to Barnes and Noble for $164 million. Barnes & Noble press release on the purchase. Continue Reading
New Bill on Spyware Programs
Rep. Mary Bono introduced H.R. 2929, the Safeguard Against Privacy Invasions Act (SPI), to protect users of the Internet from unknowing transmission of their personally identifiable information through spyware programs. Rep. Bono’s press release. “The bill grants the Federal Trade Commission regulatory authority over the SPI Act, and imposes civil penalties for those who do… Continue Reading
Hackers Use Google Cached Pages
“Computer hackers have adopted a startling strategy in their attempts to break into websites. By using the popular search engine Google, they do not have to visit a site to plan an attack. Instead, they can get all the information they need from Google’s cached versions of web pages, say experts in the US.” (link… Continue Reading
