UK: Terrorism Act 2006 (47 pages, PDF): “An Act to make provision for and about offences relating to conduct carried out, or capable of being carried out, for purposes connected with terrorism; to amend enactments relating to terrorism; to amend the Intelligence Services Act 1994 and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000; and for… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: April 2006
Report Issued on Improving Financial Privacy Notices for Consumers
FTC press release: “Federal regulators [March 31, 2006] released “Evolution of a Prototype Financial Privacy Notice,” a report by Kleimann Communication Group summarizing consumer research commissioned by the regulators as part of their ongoing efforts to develop improved financial privacy notices…The report concludes that consumers need a context for understanding information in financial privacy notices.… Continue Reading
DHS Director Does Not Use Email
New York Times interview with DHS Director Michael Chertoff,by Deborah Solomon, April 2, 2006: Chertoff states, “I don’t use e-mail. One reason is when you write an e-mail, you have to be mindful of the fact that nothing ever disappears. It can be deleted, but it is still in the system somewhere…They can get me.… Continue Reading
US News and WR Publishes Rankings of Top Grad Schools By Category
America’s Best Graduate Schools: “The 2007 rankings are in! The key disciplines include business, law, medicine, engineering, and education. Our directory covers more than 1,200 programs: admissions requirements, financial aid info, student body profiles, starting salaries in your field, and more.” Included are: Top Law Schools Top Library & Information Studies Programs Continue Reading
Anti-Spyware Coalition Publishes Guides for Consumers and Enterprise
Press release: The Anti-Spyware Coalition today released two new resources to help consumers and enterprises better protect themselves against spyware and unwanted adware…The coalition’s two new documents walk consumers and network operators through the steps they should be taking to protect their machines against adware, spyware and other malicious software.” Protecting Your Network: Mitigating Spyware… Continue Reading
Reports Indicate Case Against Sources of Plame CIA Leak Expands
A series of recent articles name the high ranking government officials who are now the focus of the Plame CIA leak investigation: Libby lawyers finger top State Dept. leaders for CIA leak Fitzgerald Knew Identity of Leaker From Start Related postings on Plame CIA leak AP: Libby Says Prosecutor Trying to Keep Post Continue Reading
Cell Phone Use Now Considered Integral Tool by Americans
Pew Internet and American Life press release: “How Americans use their cell phones: The cell phone has become an integral and, for some, essential communications tool that has helped owners gain help in emergencies. Fully 74% of the Americans who own mobile phones say they have used their hand-held device in an emergency and gained… Continue Reading
ICANN Report Tracks Problems With WhoIs Data
ICANN Publishes Third Annual Update on the InterNIC Whois Data Problem Report System, 31 March 2006. Continue Reading
Significant Increase in Readers Visiting Newspaper Websites
Press release: “Eight in 10 adults (116 million) are reading the newspaper over the course of a week, and one in three Internet users (55 million) visit a newspaper Web site over the course of a month, according to the spring 2006 Newspaper Audience Database (NADbase) report released today by the Newspaper Association of America.… Continue Reading
DOJ Report: Identity Theft, 2004
Press release: “An estimated 3.6 million households, or about 3 percent of all households in the nation, learned that they had been the victim of at least one type of identity theft during a six-month period in 2004, the Justice Departments Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. Forty-eight percent had experienced an unauthorized use… Continue Reading
DOJ Announces Online Info Sharing Toolkit
Press release, March 30, 2006: “The Department of Justice announced today the release of its newest resource for technology and information sharing: Sharing Justice Information: A Capability Assessment Toolkit. The Capability Assessment Toolkit consists of detailed standards and guidelines, which provide law enforcement and criminal justice practitioners a step-by-step process to assess their respective agencies… Continue Reading
A Taxonomy of Legal Blogs
A Taxonomy of Legal Blogs Continue Reading
