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Daily Archives: January 21, 2005
New Georgia Anti-Spam Legislation
Press release from Georgia Governor: “The goal of the Georgia Slam Spam E-mail Act is to hold accountable those who abuse the Internet and harass our citizens with fraudulent, misleading and unwanted commercial e-mail…The Governor’s legislation provides serious penalties for the use of false or misleading practices, such as forging headers, using misleading subject headlines… Continue Reading
Online Interview With Author of New Book on Surveillance Society
As a follow-up to my January 19 posting, Washington Post Examines Data Aggregator ChoicePoint, again from the Post, an online interview with Robert O’Harrow Jr., author of No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society. Continue Reading
FBI Seeks to Limit FOIA Requests
From AP, this report on the FBI’s fight to limit public access to agency documents through Freedom of Information Act requests. Continue Reading
Will This Generation Embrace “Push Technology”
Almost a decade ago, PointCast was a cutting edge “push technology” that streamed updated, cutomized news feeds to your desktop. I sure liked it, although it routinely crashed my PC. Fast forward, and here is new twist on the application, from Yahoo. “The My Yahoo! Ticker (Beta) makes it easy to track your favorite information,… Continue Reading
National Archives Urges CIA to Narrow FOIA Exemptions
National Security Archive Files Comments on CIA’s Decennial Review of Operational Files: “The National Security Archive this week submitted comments on the Central Intelligence Agency’s decennial review of the record categories that the CIA has designated as exempt from search and review under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). In 1984 the CIA was granted… Continue Reading
