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Daily Archives: March 31, 2004
New DOJ Task Force on Copyright Violations
Ashcroft creates task force for copyright violations (The agency press release.) Feds Crank Up Heat on P2P See also the Piracy Deterrence and Privacy Act of 2004 (H.R. 4077), “to enhance criminal enforcement of the copyright laws, to educate the public about the application of copyright law to the Internet,” passed today by the House… Continue Reading
Data Mining Through Social Networking
Alex Pentland offers a persuasive argument in support of the value of data mining from workplace spoken conversations. He is involved in conducting research in this arena as the director of the Human Dynamics research group at the MIT Media Lab. Continue Reading
Senate Judiciary Filegate Scandal Update
Manuel Miranda, the former Counsel to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, resigned his position on February 23, 2004 subsequent to the furor that resulted in response to his involvement in unauthorized access to thousands of Democratic computer files from the Senate Judiciary Committee server. This Legal Times article provides background on Mr. Miranda’s past work… Continue Reading
Online Survey of KM Practices in Law Firms
Matthew Parsons, author of the upcoming book Effective Knowledge for Law Firms (June 2004) sends news of his online survey of knowledge management practices in law firms, which he states is “not sponsored by, or affiliated with, any vendors and the research report will be available without charge.” “The objective of the survey is to… Continue Reading
