The following resources, from the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), reference the FCC’s proposed rule, published in the Federal Register September 23, 2003, on the Communications for Law Enforcement Assistance Act (CALEA).
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Daily Archives: November 10, 2004
Google Indexes 8 Billion Pages
This morning the Google homepage indicated “Searching 8,058,044,651 web pages.” From the Google Blog: “The documents in Google’s index are in dozens of file types from HTML to PDF, including PowerPoint, Flash, PostScript and JavaScript. Together these pages represent a good chunk of the world’s information, but hardly all of it. That’s why we keep… Continue Reading
GAO Reports on System to Evaluate Progress in America
Informing Our Nation: Improving How to Understand and Assess the USA’s Position and Progress GAO-05-1, November 10, 2004. Highlights. “There has been growing activity and interest in developing a system of key national indicators that would provide an independent, trusted, reliable, widely available, and usable source of information. Such a system would facilitate fact-based assessments… Continue Reading
Challenges to Preserving Personal and Institutional Digital Data Are Huge
Even Digital Memories Can Fade: “So dire and complex is the challenge of digital preservation in general that the Library of Congress has spent the last several years forming committees and issuing reports on the state of the nation’s preparedness for digital preservation.” Continue Reading
