Electronic Government: Challenges to the Adoption of Smart Card Technology, by Joel Willemssen, managing director, information technology, before the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Census, House Committee on Government Reform. GAO-03-1108T, September 9. Highlights.
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Daily Archives: September 11, 2003
Next Installment of Slate’s Guide to the Patriot Act
From Slate.com: A Guide to the Patriot Act, Part 3 focuses on electronic suveillance. See also Part 1 and Part 2 of the guide. Continue Reading
New Website on Enforcement of Microsoft Antitrust Judgments
This new website, launched today by the California Dept. of Justice, coordinator for the participating states attorneys general listed on the left side of the homepage, allows consumers to post anonymous, online complaints concerning Microsoft’s “unlawful monopoly conduct.” Continue Reading
House Approved Fair Credit Reporting Act
H.R. 2622, to amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act, to prevent identity theft, improve resolution of consumer disputes, improve the accuracy of consumer records, make improvements in the use of, and consumer access to, credit information, and for other purposes, passed the House on September 10. Congressional Record, September 10, 2003: Fair and Accurate Credit… Continue Reading
Enhancing Patent and Trademark Quality
From the July 24, 2003 Oversight hearing on “Patent Quality Improvement”, this recently released Final Serial #38, 39 pages in pdf, includes the opening statements, testimony and prepared witness statements. Continue Reading
Patent Issued for Controlling Access to Internet Sites
A new patent, 6,606,659, “System and Method for Controlling Access to Internet Sites,” has been granted to Websense Inc., as reported via this press release, which indicates that the technology involved “allows organizations to optimize their employees’ use of the Internet via administrative options that enable control over what Web sites may be accessed, at… Continue Reading
In-Depth Review of Patriot Act’s Impact on Privacy
From the Free Expression Policy Project (FEPP), this revised commentary by Nancy Kranich, FEPP Senior Research Fellow: The Impact of the USA PATRIOT Act: An Update. Continue Reading
Commentary on Patriot Act
2 Years Later | Civil Liberties Patriot Gains (& Losses) “The U.S.A. Patriot Act, the largest expansion of government search and surveillance powers in U.S. history, passed Congress without much dissent soon after the September 11 attacks. Let’s just say people had other things on their minds than the small print of a 300-page bill… Continue Reading
