IRS Again Delays Modernized Taxpayer Database: “The system, the Customer Account Data Engine (CADE), will be a modern database that will house tax information for more than 200 million individual and business taxpayers and replaces the antiquated, magnetic tape-based system that came into use four decades ago.” Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: July 2003
Funding Slashed for E-Gov
House Panel Approves Deep E-Gov Funding Cuts – “The U.S. House Appropriations Committee is calling for only $1 million in 2004 funding for the Electronic Government Act (E-Gov), which invests in inter-agency projects with government-wide applications. The Bush Administration had requested $45 million for the program.” This act “uthorizes funding for improvement of the federal… Continue Reading
Online Book Piracy in India
Interesting article discussing online book piracy from “South India’s Leading News Site.” With so much focus generated by the RIAA’s increasingly aggressive pursuit of individuals who download and “share” or “pirate” music files, the burgeoning enterprise of downloading books, from the latest best sellers to older but no less popular works, has not been the… Continue Reading
Survey of Technology Used By Law Faculty
ABA Survey of Technology Use by Law Faculty – ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Technology Committee (636 law faculty responded.) Posted today on technoids. Continue Reading
Technoids Launches Redesigned Website
From Elmer R. Masters, news that Technoids has a new design, and is now powered by Geeklog. Continue Reading
Homeland Security Advisory Council Exempt from Public Disclosure
Despite the efforts of Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) to prohibit funds appropriated under H.R. 2555, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act 2004, from being used by any advisory committee (Homeland Security Advisory Council) that has been exempted from the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the amendment was defeated on July 24. (via Secrecy News) Continue Reading
Report Indicates US Online Users Have More Privacy Than Europeans
Enforced Standards Versus Evolution by General Acceptance: A Comparative Study of E-Commerce Privacy Disclosure and Practice in The U.S. and The U.K. “compares U.S. and U.K. e-commerce Web sites’ notice and disclosure practices, their adherence to promises about secondary uses of e-mail addresses, and the state of the market for privacy assurance programs in the… Continue Reading
EFF Counters RIAA P2P ID Search With Database of Usernames
File Sharers: See If the Recording Industry Is After You: “EFF is assisting Internet users by offering a mechanism for people to check the username they use on a file sharing service against a database of those usernames specified in hundreds of subpoenas the RIAA issued this month to Internet Service Providers (ISPs).” Concerned that… Continue Reading
Can the Battle Against Spam Be Won?
From the Sacramento Bee: “By some estimates, 200 to 300 spammers, sometimes loosely organized into gangs, are responsible for almost 90 percent of spam — unsolicited “junk” e-mail. They play a high-tech cat-and-mouse game and increasingly use overseas servers to inundate AOL, Microsoft Network, EarthLink and other Internet service providers.” Continue Reading
New Website For Researchers on Nuremberg Trials
From Paul Deschner: The Harvard Law School Library has just launched a new website devoted to analysis and digitization of documents relating to the Nuremberg Trials: “Nuremberg Trials Project: A Digital Document Collection” at http://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu. The Library has approximately one million pages of documents relating to the trial of military and political leaders of Nazi… Continue Reading
New Book on E-Mail Policies
E-Mail Rules: A Business Guide to Managing Policies, Security, and Legal Issues for E-Mail and Digital Communication, by Nancy Flynn, Randolph Kahn, May 2003. Continue Reading
ADA and E-Commerce
New position paper from the National Council on Disability – When the Amerians with Disabilities Act Goes Online: Application of the ADA to the Internet and the Worldwide Web. “This paper analyzes and answers the critical question: Does the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) apply to commercial and other private sector Web sites, and if… Continue Reading
