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Daily Archives: June 9, 2004
Two Publications Provide Access to DoD Memo on Detainee Interrogations
The Wall Street Journal posted, free to non-subscribers, the PDF text (49 pages) of a controversial DoD memo, stamped DRAFT, and titled Working Group Report on Detainee Interrogations in the Global War on Terrorism: Assessment of Legal, Historical, Policy, and Operational Considerations, 6 March 2003. From Newsweek, this link to an article, “A Defense Dept.… Continue Reading
GAO Report on Academic Efforts to Curtail File Sharing
File Sharing: Selected Universities Report Taking Action to Reduce Copyright Infringement. GAO-04-503, May 28. Highlights. “All of the officials interviewed indicated that their colleges or universities routinely monitor their networks, and most of them indicated that the institutions also actively monitor their networks specifically for the use of these file-sharing applications. When infringing use is… Continue Reading
Handout on Search Engines From SLA Conference
Extreme Searching & Other Goodies, presentation at SLA Conference today by Gary Price. Continue Reading
E-Voting Continues to Generate Controversy
Commission head calls for more security for electronic voting Deja Vu At The Florida Polls? Scrubbing felons from voters rolls raises fresh concerns Feds want e-voting source code disclosed Continue Reading
Court Upholds Public Right to Access Court Docket Sheets
From the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, this news of a 2nd Circuit decision (33 pages, PDF) released on June 8, that in part concluded: “We hold that the public and press enjoy a qualified First Amendment right of access to docket sheets. We also hold that the defendant court administrators have the… Continue Reading
