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Daily Archives: October 29, 2003
Personal Data Must Be Redacted from Paper and Electronic Filings Before Year’s End
From today’s Daily Business Review: “To prevent identity theft and other criminal uses of data as more court documents go online, the policy-making arm of the federal courts [U.S. Judicial Conference] has approved a plan that requires attorneys to delete selected personal data, including Social Security numbers, from both their paper and electronic filings [effective… Continue Reading
Online Cost Recovery for Legal Research
Taming Online Research: Tracking, Reporting, & Cost Recovery: “Law firm libraries and information centers have new and better oppurtunities to track usage of online research, and participate in cost recovery endeavors. Software vendors, both new comers and old timers, help make better reporting possible.” Continue Reading
Google to Compete With Amazon on Searchable Book Database
With Amazon having significantly increased the stakes in the e-commerce arena with the recent introduction of their Search Inside the Book service, news that a formidable new adversary may be actively exploring entering the same market. An article from yesterday’s Publishers Weekly,The Amazoning of Google? Search Firm Looks for Book Content, indicates that “Google has… Continue Reading
New Center to Assist Victims of ID Theft
The Financial Services Roundtable, with 100 financial services member companies, announced plans to launch a free Identity Theft Assistance Center, with a pilot program available by Spring 2004. Continue Reading
New Study on the Information Explosion
A team of researchers from the School of Information Management and Systems University of California, Berkeley released a new study today, How Much Information? 2003, that chronicles the information explosion over the past several years. According to the team, during the period of 1999 to 2002, “new stored information grew about 30% a year.” Additional… Continue Reading
