Electronic Frontier Foundation: Unintended Consequences: Seven Years under the DMCA, April, 2006. This document is version 4. (15 pages, PDF, and HTML version)
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Daily Archives: April 17, 2006
Proliferation of Cellphone Use Results in New Laws and Consequences
WSJ free feature: Restrictions on Cellphone Use While Driving Gain Traction – State, Local Officials Push For Tough Laws, Penalties; Enforcement Tactics Differ Continue Reading
Alternative Methods Needed For Password Security
Those Pesky Passwords – Too many and too complicated to remember, passwords make users crazy and incur help desk expense. What should you do about it? by Larry Ponemon: “Passwords as a security measure do not seem to be working. In Ponemon Institute’s newly released Perceptions about Passwords study, most respondents report that in the… Continue Reading
Image Based Searching Using Cell Phone Photos
From Microsoft Research, Photo2Search: Explore the Real World via Camera Phone “Seeking information about something seen, a user takes a photo of the object and sends the photo, via e-mail or Multimedia Messaging Service, to a Web-based server, which searches an image database for matches. The server then delivers database informationwhether it be a Web… Continue Reading
GAO Report Emphasizes Need for Inter-Agency Info Sharing to Combat Terrorism
Information Sharing: The Federal Government Needs to Establish Policies and Processes for Sharing Terrorism-Related and Sensitive but Unclassified Information, Full-text GAO-06-385, March 17, 2006, Highlights. “More than 4 years after September 11, the nation still lacks governmentwide policies and processes to help agencies integrate the myriad of ongoing efforts, including the agency initiatives we identified,… Continue Reading
2005-2006 PATRIOT Act Votes and Library Funding Support
From ALA, this guide to 2005-2006 Congressional PATRIOT Act Votes and Library Funding Support, which includes “a record of how your Members of Congress voted for the PATRIOT Act reauthorization and for funding for libraries. Please refer to their voting record when you meet with them during National Library Legislative Day.” Continue Reading
University Prof Launches Free Site Evaluating Health Care Journalism
“HealthNewsReview.org is a website dedicated to: improving the accuracy of news stories about medical treatments, tests and procedures ; helping consumers evaluate the evidence for and against new ideas in health care. We support and encourage the ABCs of health journalism: Accuracy, Balance, Completeness…HealthNewsReview.org reviews news stories that make a therapeutic claim about: specific treatments,… Continue Reading
47 AGs Submit Letter to IRS On Sharing Personal Info on Tax Returns
Follow-up to April 4, 2006 posting, IRS Hearing on Privacy Standards and Sale of Taxpayer Data, this related April 3 press release: “Forty-seven Attorneys General submitted a letter (9 pages, PDF) to the Internal Revenue Service objecting to proposed IRS rules that would make it easier for businesses to share and use personal information included… Continue Reading
DHS OIG Issues Report Critical of FEMA’s Katrina Response
A Performance Review of FEMA’s Disaster Management Activities in Response to Hurricane Katrina (PDF, 218 pages), 04/14/2006. “This report assesses the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) performance as it conducted its disaster management responsibilities in response to Hurricane Katrina. We examined whether the laws, regulations, policies, procedures, plans, guidelines, and resources were adequate and operational,… Continue Reading
