From the Electronic Frontier Foundation:
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California (ACLU-Northern California) Tuesday filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit where a federal judge ordered the disabling of one of the domain names associated with “Wikileaks,” a website designed [...]
Archive of entries posted on February 2008
EFF, ACLU Move to Intervene in Wikileaks Case
Is Your Printer Spying On You?
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Imagine that every time you printed a document, it automatically included a secret code that could be used to identify the printer – and potentially, the person who used it. Sounds like something from an episode of “Alias,” right?
Unfortunately, the scenario isn’t fictional. In a purported effort to identify counterfeiters, the [...]
C-SPAN Congressional Chronicle
From C-SPAN:
The C-SPAN Congressional Chronicle is an index to the C-SPAN video recordings of the House and Senate floor proceedings. The video recordings are matched with the text of the Congressional Record as soon as the Record is available. It only includes members who appeared on the floor to deliver or insert their remarks. The [...]
Global E-Government Survey 2008
From the United Nations:
The UN E-Government Survey 2008: From E-Government to Connected Governance assesses the e-government readiness of the 192 Member States of the UN according to a quantitative composite index of e-readiness based on website assessment, telecommunication infrastructure, and human resource endowment. ICTs can help reinvent government in such a way that existing institutional [...]
White House Ignored Repeated Warnings That E-mails Were at Risk
From the National Security Archive:
At a hearing today before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, it was disclosed that the White House has received repeated warnings from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and from information technology experts within the White House about the risk of lost e-mails. Records obtained by the [...]
YouTube lost for many as Pakistan attempts to block local access
From the Mercury News:
Most of the world’s Internet users lost access to YouTube for several hours Sunday after an attempt by Pakistan’s government to block access domestically affected other countries.
The outage highlighted yet another of the Internet’s vulnerabilities, coming less than a month after broken fiber-optic cables in the Mediterranean took Egypt off line and [...]
Will The FCC Save The Internet?
From Public Knowledge:
Comcast’s defense of its indefensible practice of throttling BitTorrent rests on the definition of the word “block.” For such a big company, and for such a big industry, that’s not much of a defense. But at the point, it’s all they have. The question is whether it will be enough to save Comcast [...]
TRLN Member Libraries Join Open Content Alliance
From North Carolina State University Libraries News:
Members of the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) have announced that they are joining the Open Content Alliance (OCA) and other major research libraries in contributing to the freely accessible digital library hosted by the OCA. TRLN is a collaborative organization of the research libraries at Duke University, North [...]
Office of Strategic Initiatives Strategic Plan 2008-2013
From the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives:
OSI has just issued its Strategic Plan for the next six years. The plan is intended as a living document that will guide OSI as it develops programs, plans and strategies for the Library of Congress’s digital future.
FY 2008 – 2013 Strategic Plan (PDF, 32.9 MB)
Committee Holds Hearing on Electronic Records Preservation at the White House
From the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform:
At 10:00 a.m., on February 26, 2008, the Committee held a hearing entitled “Electronic Records Preservation at the White House.”
Chairman Waxman’s Opening Statement (218 KB)
Good morning. Today’s hearing focuses on whether President Bush and the White House are complying with the Presidential Records Act. . .
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