Text of Federal Register Notice, March 11, 2004, Definitions, Implementation, and Reporting Requirements Under the CAN-SPAM Act; Proposed Rule. Appendix A – Privacy Impact Assessment for the Electronic Public Comment System, The Collection of Public Comments Filed Electronically in the CAN-SPAM Rulemaking Proceeding; Appendix B, Federal Trade Commission Privacy Policy, and Appendix C, User Notice… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: March 2004
Interconnectivity of Web News Through Blogs
How News Travels on the Internet – a Visual Analysis of Website Interaction. Continue Reading
Report to Congress on Implementation of E-Gov’t Act
FY2003 Report to Congress on Implementation of The E-Government Act March 08, 2004 (74 pages, pdf) Press release from Sen. Joe Lieberman: OMB Report Out Today Demonstrates Success Of E-Gov Act – Much Remains to Be Done. Continue Reading
EU Shores Up Piracy Laws
From today’s New York Times, Europe Moves to Strengthen Piracy Laws. Press release, Intellectual property: Commission welcomes European Parliament support against counterfeiting and piracy Continue Reading
Study on Media Coverage of WMD Issue
Media Coverage of Weapons of Mass Destruction, the latest study from the Advanced Methods of Cooperative Security Program, March 9, 2004, by Susan Moeller. Summary Full version (101 pages, pdf) About the publisher: “The Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) is a research center that pursues policy-oriented scholarship on major issues facing… Continue Reading
Illegal Use of Credit Cards on the Net
From the Computer Crime Research Center: Internet fraud: volumes are increasing: “According to certain data, there are 30 kinds of illegal operations with cards in the Internet. The most widespread are payment using non-existing cards, creating false Internet shops, e-thefts, false payments at gambling websites.” Continue Reading
Industry Coordinates Lawsuits Against CAN-SPAM Violators
Microsoft press release, March 10, 2004: “America Online Inc., EarthLink Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! Inc. today jointly announced that their collaborative anti-spam industry efforts have resulted in the coordinated filing of the first major industry lawsuits under the new federal anti-spam law, the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Po***graphy and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act of… Continue Reading
World’s Biggest RAM Drive Purchased by U.S. Gov’t
From TechWorld (via Slashdot): “The US government has just bought the world’s biggest ever solid state disk from Texas Memory Systems.” “The 2.5TB system is the largest SSD installation in the world so far, without question, the executive VP for TMS, Woody Hutsell, told Techworld….So where is it and what’s it to be used for?…What… Continue Reading
Compromise Reached on EU Data Protection Laws
“Parliament adopted by 439 votes in favour, 39 against and 28 abstentions an own-initiative report on the 1995 Data Protection Directive. The House states firmly that transfers of personal data to third country authorities without consent, such as in the case of the US authorities accessing transatlantic passenger data, seriously infringes EU data protection standards.… Continue Reading
Revenue Provisions from FY2005 Federal Budget Proposal
Description of Revenue Provisions Contained in the President’s Fiscal Year 2005 Budget Proposal, February 2004 (JCS-3-04) TEXT, PDF. Continue Reading
Proposal To Merge RSS Syndication Formats
From Dave Winer’s blog, this posting proposes a series of talking points on the possible merger of the RSS and Atom syndication formats. Continue Reading
Handbook on Military Law
From Secrecy News: “The 2004 Operational Law Handbook published by the U.S. Army JAG Corps provides a comprehensive map of the terrain of military law, from the legal basis for the use of force to domestic operations to the laws governing intelligence and special operations. A copy is posted here (563 pages, 4.6 MB, PDF… Continue Reading
