Press release today: “Mamma.com Inc….today announced the beta release of its innovative Health Search… [the] technology does more than aggregate results from various content providers [WebMD, MedLine Plus, HealthAtoZ, MayClinic.com, MedicineNet.com, NHSDirect Online] for medical information; we crawl deep into the websites of certain handpicked, trusted, medical websites to extract and format results in a easy to understand, and comprehensive manner.”
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Daily Archives: June 20, 2005
Article Addresses Reclaiming Gov. Docs Removed From Public Access Websites
Mart, Susan Nevelow, Let the People Know the Facts: Can Government Information Removed from the Internet be Reclaimed? (June 1, 2005). “This article examines the legal bases of the public’s right to access government information, and examines and analyzes the types of information that have recently been removed from the Internet and the rationales given… Continue Reading
DOJ’s Terrorism Task Forces Report
Reports Encompassing More Than One DOJ Component – The Department of Justice’s Terrorism Task Forces, Evaluation & Inspections Division, Report I-2005-007, June 2005 (353 pages, PDF) Continue Reading
New Study Documents Law Enforcement Inquiries on Library Patron Data
From today’s New York Times, Libraries Say Yes, Officials Do Quiz Them About Users reports on a study, not yet released by the American Library Association (ALA), that documents law enforcement inquiries for information on library patrons’ reading materials. The article indicates that there have been “at least 200 formal and informal inquiries to libraries…… Continue Reading
New Bill to Permanently Authorize Patriot Act Provisions
S.1266, Title: An original bill to permanently authorize certain provisions of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act of 2001, to reauthorize a provision of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, to clarify certain definitions in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act… Continue Reading
Commentary on Technology Applications and Personal Data Collection
Plenty of Room at the Bottom? Personal Digital Libraries and Collections “People are capturing and storing an ever-increasing amount of digital information about or for themselves, including emails, documents, articles, portfolios of work, digital images, and audio and video recordings. Computer processing, storage, and software tools available to individuals are increasing in power, volume, and… Continue Reading
