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Daily Archives: December 3, 2003
Essay on Information Law
Information Quality and the Law, or, How to Catch a Difficult Horse: “This essay seeks to provide, first, a brief overview over the genesis and content of the Federal Data Quality Act and the implementing OMB Guidelines. Second, against this background, the article examines this set of rules and regulations from the viewpoint of whatat… Continue Reading
Google Adds Word Variations
From Google Help: “Google now uses stemming technology. Thus, when appropriate, it will search not only for your search terms, but also for words that are similar to some or all of those terms… Any variants of your terms that were searched for will be highlighted in the snippet of text accompanying each result.” [Search… Continue Reading
Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Privacy Cases
Today the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Buck Doe v. Elaine L. Chao, Secretary of Labor (No. 02-1377), involving the Privacy Act of 1974 and the wrongful disclosure of the social security number of a coal miner seeking benefits for black lung disease. EPIC Files Amicus Brief in Supreme Court SS# Case The Supreme… Continue Reading
E-Voting Not Ready for Prime Time
Dr. Avi Rubin of the Johns Hopkins’ Information Security Institute gave the keynote today, Electronic Voting: A case study of how closed systems fail, at the Secure Trusted Operating System Consortium Symposium underway at George Washington University. Dr. Rubin’s research identified critical security flaws in e-voting machine manufacturer Diebold Inc.’s software. The company announced this… Continue Reading
