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
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Monthly Archives: June 2005
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
Downing Street Memo Continues to Provoke Responses from Hill and Media
From the June 17, 2005 New York Times: Antiwar Group Says Leaked British Memo Shows Bush Misled Public on His War Plans The Secret Downing Street Memo published by the Sunday Times on May 15, 2005 Follow-up to Conyers’ “Downing Street Memo” Letter to President Bush, June 15, 2005 Additional Co-signers of Letter to President… Continue Reading
FTC Report to Congress on CAN-SPAM Act
FTC press release: “In a report to Congress required by the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (“CAN-SPAM Act”), the Federal Trade Commission says it does not recommend requiring unsolicited commercial e-mail to include a label in the subject line as a means to reduce spam…The report says that although… Continue Reading
Controvery Over Edits to BLM Report on Grazing Impact Study
From the LA Times, June 17, 2005: “The Bush administration altered critical portions of a scientific analysis of the environmental impact of cattle grazing on public lands before announcing Thursday that it would relax regulations limiting grazing on those lands, according to scientists involved in the study.” BLM Publishes Final Environmental Impact Study on Changes… Continue Reading
GAO Reviews DOE FOIA Fee Issues
Information Management: Freedom of Information Act Fee and Fee Waiver Processing at the Department of Energy GAO-05-405, May 27, 2005. Highlights. “GAO was asked to determine, for fiscal year 2004, the volume and nature of FOIA request processing at the Department of Energy (DOE), to what extent DOE followed the act and related Office of… Continue Reading
Will Google Launch E-Payment Service?
Google reportedly plans to start payment service to rival PayPal Will Google Launch E-Payment Service? Continue Reading
Details Revealed on Google Library Project at U. Michigan
Following are links to several related documents worth reviewing on the Google Library Project to digitize the entire collections of participating libraries. Google Library: Peril for Publishers? Michigan Digitization Project Brief Overview (12/13/04) PDF Format Cooperative Agreement between the University Library and Google (PDF Format) Sample Titles Googles Library Digitization Project: Reports from Michigan and… Continue Reading
Sometimes Prudent Course is to Bypass Email and Just Talk To Colleagues Directly
An e-mail exchange has been passed on to thousands across the UK after a sticky incident at a law firm. Continue Reading
Survey Tracks Growth in Online Newspaper Readership
A Fifth of Online Users Who Read Newspapers Now Rely Primarily On Web Editions: “Findings from the latest Nielsen//NetRatings @Plan Summer 2005 research shows that a significant 21 percent of Web users who read newspapers have transferred their readership primarily to the online version, while a majority, or 72 percent, of online users who consume… Continue Reading
