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Daily Archives: September 24, 2003
U.S. Government Manual 2003-2004
GPO provides access to The U.S. Government Manual 2003-2004 via either a key word search or through a browse feature (choose between viewing content in text of pdf), to access data organized into the following topics: Legislative Branch, Judicial Branch, Executive Branch, Executive Agencies, Independent Establishments and Gov’t Corporations, Quasi-Official Agencies, Appendices and Changes. Continue Reading
New GAO Report on E-Gov Initiatives
Electronic Government: Progress and Challenges in Implementing the Office of Personnel Management’s Initiatives, by Linda D. Koontz, director, information management, before the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Census, House Committee on Government Reform. GAO-03-1169T, September 23. Highlights. Continue Reading
Network Solutions Settles With FTC On Deceptive Marketing Charges
False Solicitations Allegedly Duped Consumers to Transfer Domain Name: FTC v. Network Solutions, Inc., doing business as VeriSign Registrar (Civil Action No.: 03 1907), U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Stipulated Final Order for Permanent Injunction. Continue Reading
Extensive Study on ID Theft to Be Released
From the press release on a new report to be issued September 25 by ID Analytics, titled National Report on Identity Fraud. “The year-long research project leading up to this report analyzed more than 200 million records, including valid and fraudulent consumer applications for credit, debit and new accounts, together with the largest collection of… Continue Reading
Court Blocks FTC’s Do Not Call Registry
Lee R. West, Senior United States District Judge, Western District of Oklahoma, found in favor of U.S. Security, et al., in determining that the Federal Trade Commission did not “have the authority to promulgate a national do not call registry.” The text of the order, issued September 23, is available here, courtesy of EPIC, in… Continue Reading
California Anti-Spam Law Sets Nationwide Standard
From Spam Laws, the text of California Business and Professions Code, Division 7, Part 3, Chapter 1, Article 1.8. , Restrictions On Unsolicited Commercial E-mail Advertisers (added by S.B. 186, approved September 23, 2003), and signed by Gov. Gray Davis yesterday, effective January 1, 2004. California law will try to banish e-mail spam California spam… Continue Reading
Hearing on Proposed Database Misappropriation Bill
The House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property Committee on the Judiciary, Joint Hearing with the Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection Oversight, Hearing on the Discussion Draft, H.R. ____, The Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act of 2003, held Tuesday, September 23, 2003: Witness List;… Continue Reading
