Yesterday I posted a link to the New York Times announcement of a new fee-based service to access a selected range of current and archival content, effective September 2005. Bloggers, journalists, newspaper execs and financial analysts offer their responses: Business People Like ‘NYT’ Plan to Charge on Web; Bloggers Don’t.
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Daily Archives: May 17, 2005
New Cyberthreat Against WiFi Detailed in WSJ Article
From today’s WSJ free features, ‘Evil Twins’ and ‘Pharming’ – Hackers Use Two New Tricks To Steal Online Identities; Scams Are Harder to Detect. Continue Reading
California Senate Approves Prohibition on RFID Tags
Another follow-up, this time to my March 1, 2005 posting, California Bill to Prohibit State Issued IDs With RFID Tags. The aforementioned bill was approved by the California Senate on May 16. For details, see this EFF press release, Bill to Protect Californians’ Privacy, Personal Safety, and Financial Security Advances in State Senate. Related references:… Continue Reading
Questions Persist About WMDs and Revelations of UK Gov’t Docs.
Follow-up to my May 9 posting, Justification for War Questioned by 88 Reps, today the Senate Democratic Policy Committee issued the following press release: New Intelligence Memo Raises Serious Questions About the Bush Administration’s Case for War in Iraq. Update: From the The Sunday Times – Britain, “This new web page is designed to give… Continue Reading
Impact of Political Bloggers on 2004 Campaign Examined in New Research Project
A new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, Buzz, Blogs and Beyond: The Internet and the National Discourse in the Fall of 2004 (32 pages, PDF), “PIP and BuzzMetrics examined the interplay of blogs, online citizen chatter in newsgroups, the mainstream news media and official political spin from the Democrat and Republican… Continue Reading
Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court
Encyclopedia Of The Supreme Court, by David Shultz. Publisher: Facts on File (May 31, 2005). For more details, see the press release. Continue Reading
DC Metro SmarTrip System Collects Data on Riders
EPIC FOIA Notes #5, May 16, 2005: “The SmarTrip farecard, which includes an embedded RFID chip, tracks each rider’s metro travel and can be linked to address and credit card data. Most records held by state agencies are protected by law, but no similar protections exist for the SmarTrip system.” Metro SmarTrip homepage Continue Reading
Markup of Patriot Act Behind Closed Doors May 19
From the ACLU press release: “The Senate Intelligence Committee announced today that it is rushing forward with a markup of Patriot Act reauthorization legislation Thursday, but that the session will be behind closed doors…Some of the most extreme parts of the Patriot Act are set to sunset, or expire, at the end of this year… Continue Reading
