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Monthly Archives: May 2005

Google Launches Free Enterprise Search Tool

“Google Desktop Search for Enterprise helps you easily manage the ever-growing mountain of information located on your computers and includes key standards-based administrator features that provide enhanced security, centralized configuration and easy company-wide deployment. Perhaps best of all—it’s free.” Related references from Internetnews.com and InfoWorld. See also this article, Which Is the Best Desktop Search… Continue Reading

Website Offers Detailed Info on Crimes Reported in Chicago

A non-profit, non-government affiliated project, this free, browsable database of crimes reported in Chicago (with source data from the Chicago Police Department’s Citizen ICAM website), makes use of Google for map views, and RSS feeds “for every block and police beat in the city.” Users may browse by crime type, street, date, police district, location… Continue Reading

Survey Indicates Increased Use of Employee Monitoring Practices

2005 Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance Survey: Many Companies Monitoring, Recording, Videotaping—and Firing—Employees “From computer monitoring and telephone taping to video surveillance and GPS satellite tracking, employers are using policy and technology to manage productivity and protect resources. To motivate employee compliance, companies increasingly are putting teeth in technology policies. Fully 26% have fired workers for… 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