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House passes anti-spyware bill!
October 8, 2004Center for Democracy and Technology: Spyware Only a week after my home computer got infected (grrr!!), the House yesterday passed H.R. 4661: The Internet Spyware Prevention Act. The measure would impose criminal penalties for entities that secretly deploy the software, which tracks consumers’ Internet habits. The Senate Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Subcommittee on [...]
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WIPO Announces Plans to Support Public Domain, Open Source
October 8, 2004WIPO Announces Plans to Support Public Domain, Open Source This is really big. This is the first time EVER that the World Intellectual Property Organization has recognized that the public domain has a place in intellectual property law. As a matter of fact, WIPO has spent a considerable amount of energy (and $$$) to make [...]
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Report to the DCI on Iraq’s WMD
October 7, 2004Washington > Inspector’s Judgment: U.S. Report Finds Iraqis Eliminated Illicit Arms in 90′s” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/07/politics/07intel.html?ex=1254801600&en=48d79cbf21216c36&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland”>The NYT: Inspector’s Judgment: U.S. Report Finds Iraqis Eliminated Illicit Arms in 90′s Paul Bremer, Donald Rumsfeld and now this. It’s been a busy week for the Bush administration as they try to plug the ever increasing holes in their political dike. [...]
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Google with judgement
October 7, 2004‘Google With Judgment’ (washingtonpost.com) I’m not quite sure what to think of this one so if anyone has comments or ideas, please email me. Basically, Charles McLean has taken marketing concepts, combined them with data mining tools, and is able to predict, or “discern the tonalities”, of global politics. His technology is being used at [...]
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BeSpacific
October 5, 2004beSpacific Here’s the BOTM for October (ok I’m sort of like First Monday who’s proper name should be “First Monday-ish”!). BeSpacific gives updates on issues including copyright, privacy, censorship, the Patriot Act, ID theft, and freedom of information. It’s run by Sabrina Pacifici, one of the creators/editors for LLRX.com, the web zine on legal issues. [...]
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Govt Demands More Data, Releases Less to Public
October 4, 2004Is Network Outage Information a Terror Threat? By Caron Carlson. eWeek, October 4, 2004. After more than a decade of making reports of telecommunication outages available to the public, the FCC in August ruled that the information will be kept secret. The policy reversal reflects a larger practice in post-9/11 Washington of demanding an ever-increasing [...]
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Lots of Great News for Blog Readers
October 4, 2004The New Bloglines Web Services by Marc Hedlund 09/28/2004, O’Reilly Network. This article is pretty technical, but includes several important bits of news of interest to everyone who is interested in blogs, RSS, and Web Services. Bloglines is an online aggregator that provides a wonderful, free service for folks who read blogs. They aggregate blog [...]
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Outsourcing government database on federal contracts
October 1, 2004Private Company to Oversee Database on Public Contracts By David Zucchino Los Angeles Times. October 1, 2004. Part A; Pg. 15. The General Services Administration, which maintains government databases on federal contracts, will turn over control of all contractor data to a Virginia-based company today. The agency says the new arrangement will provide information about [...]