AB 213 was signed by California Gov. Gray Davis on September 22. This bill would require a manufacturer of a new motor vehicle sold or leased in this state that is equipped with one or more recording devices, commonly referred to as “event data recorders (EDR)” or “sensing and diagnostic modules (SDM),” to disclose that… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: September 2003
Google Labs Tests Search by Location
From PCWorld, news of the launch, in beta, of Google’s Search by Location service, which “helps you focus your search on a specific geographic location.” Users may indicate search terms, along with an address (US only), city & state, or zip code. The Google FAQ page is here. Continue Reading
Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against JetBlue
From The Salt Lake Tribune: “A group of JetBlue Airways passengers, incensed that the low-fare airline gave their personal information to a defense contractor, on Monday filed a class action lawsuit in Utah on behalf of 5 million passengers.” [thanks to Toby Brown] See also my posting from yesterday which included the link to the… Continue Reading
GAO Report on Homeland Security Info Sharing
Homeland Security: Information Sharing Responsibilities, Challenges, and Key Management Issues, by Robert F. Dacey, before a joint hearing of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Science, and Research and Development and the Subcommittee on Infrastructure and Border Security, House Select Committee on Homeland Security. GAO-03-1165T, September 17. Highlights. Continue Reading
Court Rules Recall Vote May Proceed
From FindLaw, the text of today’s decision, Southwest Voter Registration Ed. Project v. Shelly (pdf). Continue Reading
Report on Presidential Campaign Finance Spending
The Campaign Finance Institute’s Task Force On Presidential Nomination Financing issued a press release on its new report, Participation, Competition, Engagement Reviving And Improving Public Funding For Presidential Nomination Politics. Continue Reading
VeriSign’s Controversial Site Finder Service
The Controversy Over New Web Typo Site continues as ICANN issued an Advisory Concerning VeriSign’s Deployment of DNS Wildcard Service, requesting that pending the organization’s review and publication of a report, VeriSign suspend this service. In addition to ICANN’s action, last Friday Popular Enterprises, parent of search engine Nester.com, filed an unfair trade practices lawsuit… Continue Reading
OCLC Sues NYC Hotel Over Classification System
AP reported yesterday that the non-profit Online Computer Library Center, Incorporated (OCLC) has filed a trademark infringement complaint (in the Southern District Court, District of Ohio, Eastern Division), against the Library Hotel, located in Manhattan. At issue is the hotel’s use of the Dewey Decimal Classification system (owned by OCLC) as a theme to identify… Continue Reading
JetBlue Passenger Profiles Controversy Remains in Spotlight
As a follow-up to my previous posting, Airline Passenger Profiling Study Goes Awry, on September 20 the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a complaint with the FTC, stating: “JetBlue Airways Corporation and Acxiom Corporation have engaged in deceptive trade practices affecting commerce by disclosing consumer personal information to Torch Concepts Inc., an information mining… Continue Reading
UK Criminalizes Spam
According to a BBC News article from September 18: “The UK has made spam a criminal offence to try to stop the flood of unsolicited messages. Under the new law, spammers could be fined £5,000 in a magistrates court or an unlimited penalty from a jury.” This law comes via the Minister of State for… Continue Reading
Exec. Order on Declassifying National Security Info Effective Today
Executive Order 12958, Classified National Security Information, as amended by Executive Order 13292 (March 28, 2003), takes effect today. “This order prescribes a uniform system for classifying, safeguarding, and declassifying national security information, including information relating to defense against transnational terrorism. Our democratic principles require that the American people be informed of the activities of… Continue Reading
PC Magazine Reviews News Readers
RSS News Readers Browse for You identifies the top news aggregators as: FeedDemon 1.0, Feedreader 2.5, NewsGator 1.3 and SharpReader 0.9.2.1. Continue Reading
