The Harris Poll® #40, May 12, 2005: Almost Three-Quarters of All U.S. Adults An Estimated 163 million Go Online “The numbers of adults who are online at home, in the office, at school, library or other locations continue to grow albeit at a somewhat slower rate. In the past eight months the number… Continue Reading
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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 allit’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, Videotapingand FiringEmployees “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
CR Reviews Internet Filtering Software
From the June 2005 issue of Consumer Reports, see this Internet Filtering Software Ratings, with rankings for 11 applications, including comparisons for price, fee, overall score, and variables for test results and features. [thanks Barbara] Continue Reading
Range of Responses to NYTimes Online Fee Announcement
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. Continue Reading
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
