THE 2005 JEFFERSON MUZZLES ARE HERE! – “For 14 years the Thomas Jefferson Center has celebrated the April birth date of our namesake by awarding the Jefferson Muzzles to those who in the past year forgot Mr. Jefferson’s admonition that freedom of speech cannot be limited without being lost. Who committed some of the more egregious and ridiculous acts of censorship last year?” [thanks Gloria]
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Daily Archives: April 12, 2005
Librarians’ Expertise Essential in Development and Maintenance of Electronic Collections
Law Library Subscriptions: Paper or Electronic?, by Lucy Rieger, New Jersey Law Journal, April 12, 2005. Continue Reading
Bloggers Brief in Apple v. Does Case
From EFF, Bloggers Speak Up in Apple Case: “Groups working to protect journalists’ press freedoms, the creator of a blog-search tool, weblog publishers, and more than a dozen individual online journalist/bloggers filed a friend-of-the-court brief (PDF) [April 11] in Apple v. Does — the case in which Apple Computer is seeking to unmask online journalists’… Continue Reading
Law Firms Begin to Recognize Importance of Competitive Intelligence
The Wise Use of ‘Intelligence’, Leigh Jones, The National Law Journal, 04-12-2005. Continue Reading
Websites That Offer Consumers Safe Harbor
Jay Cline reviews a range of popular e-commerce websites that offer consumers a defined list of privacy protections and provides general scores for those that implement portions of the European privacy principles. Continue Reading
Copyright, Responsibility and Change
Supreme Court Standards for Peer-to-Peer and Beyond – “The upcoming ruling on copyright infringement in P-to-P networks will have important implications for future technology development.” Continue Reading
Job Search Using Websites, Listervs and Email Sources
From the WSJ Free Content, Librarians Reference These Sites When Seeking Work, by Sarah E. Needleman Continue Reading
Renewed Calls To Define Policies for Consumer Notification of ID Theft
“CDT will testify (text of statement submitted by CDT Exec. Director, 17 pages, PDF) April 13 before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the privacy and security issues raised by recent losses of personal information by data brokers and others. CDT will call for a stronger policy framework, requiring notice of breach, security safeguards, limits on… Continue Reading
LexisNexis Security Breach Impacts Significantly Larger Group Than Previously Reported
Press release: LexisNexis Concludes Review of Data Search Activity, Identifying Additional Instances of Illegal Data Access: “In addition to the 30,000 individuals already notified, LexisNexis will begin notifying approximately 280,000 additional individuals whose information may have been acquired during these recently identified incidents. LexisNexis will offer free support services to individuals who receive the notification,… Continue Reading
