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Daily Archives: March 22, 2006
Pentagon GC to Release New Rule on Evidence Obtained Via Torture
WSJ free feature: White House Will Reverse Policy, Ban Evidence Elicited by Torture Continue Reading
Foreign Direct Investment in the United States
Fact Sheet, Office of the Spokesman, U.S. Dept. of State, March 22, 2006: Foreign Direct Investment in the United States Fact Sheet, Office of the Spokesman, U.S. Dept. of State, March 13, 2006: How Foreign Direct Investment Benefits the United States Related postings on port operations Continue Reading
CIA Warns Bloggers About Obtaining Agency Approval
USNews.com: “The CIA’s Publications Review Board is sending out terse reminders to agency veterans reminding them of the rules requiring that any writings–even blogs–must first get agency approval.” Continue Reading
CATO Study Challenges Courts’ Role in Digital Rights Management
Circumventing Competition: The Perverse Consequences of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (PDF, 28 pages), by Timothy B. Lee “The courts have a proven track record of fashioning balanced remedies for the copyright challenges created by new technologies. But when Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in 1998, it cut the courts out of this… Continue Reading
CDT Report Identifies Large Corporate Adware Funders
Press release: “Large well-respected companies are helping to fund the virulent spread of unwanted and potentially harmful “adware” by paying for advertisements generated by those programs, a new report by CDT finds. In “Following the Money: How Advertising Dollars Encourage Nuisance and Harmful Adware and What Can be Done to Reverse the Trend,” (10 pages,… Continue Reading
Freedominfo.org Launches Redesigned Website
Press release: “Four years after its launch and more than 1 million hits later, freedominfo.org has a whole new look. But the dual mission of the site remainsa virtual network linking freedom of information (FOI) movements globally and an institutional memory for transparency and access to information rights throughout the world. Freedominfo.org today introduces a… Continue Reading
