Blogging: One Firm’s Experience The Fourfold Path to Email Enlightenment Virtual Tours and Law Library Websites Search the Web More Efficiently European Union Law: An Integrated Guide to Electronic and Print Research – Updated Food is the Anytime Gift – Part II Are You Practicing What We Preach about Searching? FOIA Facts: Human Error –… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: December 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
New Task Force Report Addresses Flaws in National Cybersecurity Infrastructure
From the press release: “The Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age today released its second report, concluding that the U.S. government has not yet taken advantage of America’s technology expertise to fight the war on terrorism. In its report, the Task Force catalogs current gaps in the nation’s system for… Continue Reading
CRS Accessibility Act Introduced
On November 21, Rep. Christopher Shays (R-CT) introduced the Congressional Research Accessibility Act (H.R. 3630), To make available on the Internet, for purposes of access and retrieval by the public, certain information available through the Congressional Research Service Web site. The press release from Rep. Shays states: “CRS products are created with taxpayers’ dollars and… Continue Reading
New Washington, DC Portal Excels With Many New Features
The redesigned website for Washington, DC was recently honored by the Center for Digital Government as the Best of the Web city portal. The site has more than 120,000 pages, available in seven languages, in addition to English, and receives in excess of 100 million annual visits (yeh DC!). Content is arranged into the following… Continue Reading
DOJ and FBI Seek Regulation of VoIP Due to National Security
From today’s LA Times (reg. req’d), FBI Seeks Wiretap Capabilities for Phone Calls Made Over the Internet. As I posted yesterday, FCC Commissioner Powell released a strong statement opposing regulation of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). According to the Times article, DOJ officials maintain that such a position would “jeopardize the ability of federal, state… Continue Reading
Information Rights and the Internet
The Internet and the right to communicate: “This paper examines the development of a right to communicate and how it can be defined and implemented.” Continue Reading
FCC Forum on Internet Telephony
Today the Federal Communications held a public forum on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). From the Opening Remarks of FCC Chairman Michael K. Powell: “As one who believes unflinchingly in maintaining an Internet free from government regulation, I believe that IP-based services such as VOIP should evolve in a regulation-free zone.” Links to FCC Commissioners’… Continue Reading
Personal Data and Florida/NH E-Court Docs.
The Tampa Tribune reported on November 26 (the article is now in the archives $$) that the Florida Supreme Court appointed a committee, chaired by Jon Mills, to determine new procedures to address privacy issues related to the release of personal data in electronic court records. From the Florida State Supreme Court Press Information webpage,… Continue Reading
