From The Australian:
The Federal Government’s controversial internet censorship plan may extend to filter more web activity than first thought, Broadband Minister Stephen Conroy revealed today.
In a post on his department’s blog, Senator Conroy today said technology that could filter data sent directly between computers would be tested as part of the upcoming live filtering trial.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24833960-26103,00.html
Archive of entries posted on December 2008
Australian Web filter plan extends further
China defends censoring websites that break rules
From the Associated Press:
China defended Tuesday the blocking of websites it said violated Chinese law and urged Internet companies to respect its legal system.
“The Chinese government conducts necessary management over the Internet. It is the same with other nations,” foreign ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao told journalists.
“You cannot deny, some websites actually contain content that violates [...]
New York Times site still blocked in China
From the International Herald Tribune:
The Chinese authorities continued blocking access from mainland China to the Web site of The New York Times over the weekend despite having lifted some of the restrictions they recently imposed on the Web sites of other media.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/21/asia/web.php
Yahoo! Sets New Industry Privacy Standard with Data Retention Policy
Yahoo! Press Release:
Today, Yahoo! Inc. announced a new global data retention policy that sets an industry-leading approach to user data privacy. This new policy strengthens Yahoo!’s relationship of trust with its 500 million users world-wide and enhances its longtime leadership on privacy.
Under the new policy, Yahoo! will anonymize user log data within 90 days with [...]
Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive Win 2008 Downs Intellectual Freedom Award
From Library Journal:
For his successful challenge to an FBI National Security Letter (NSL), Brewster Kahle, director and co-founder of the Internet Archive, has been awarded the 2008 Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award by the faculty of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6623245.html?rssid=191
National Library of Scotland plans large digital archive
From PublicTechnology.net:
Hitachi Data Systems is to become a supplier to the National Library of Scotland (NLS) in its work to build a digital archive; allowing it to ramp up its digitisation efforts.
The library’s Digital Repository (DR), which is starting to be populated with digital copies of the Library’s collection of over 14 million items which [...]
SLA Submits “Improved Information Access at the EPA” Statement to Obama Transition Project
From the SLA Public Policy blog:
On 22 December 2008, SLA submitted a statement to the EPA Review Team leads of the Obama-Biden Transition Project entitled “Improved Information Access at the EPA”. SLA’s statement stressed that the EPA must provide not only the agency’s staff, but the general public, with access to its important environmental information [...]
Access to OLC Opinions Still in Contention
From Secrecy News:
Legal opinions issued by the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel that interpret the law for the executive branch on questions of surveillance, detention and other disputed national security policies are among the Bush Administration records that are most urgently sought by members of Congress and others, and are often among the records [...]
Cheney claims power to decide his public records
From the Associated Press:
Dick Cheney’s lawyers are asserting that the vice president alone has the authority to determine which records, if any, from his tenure will be handed over to the National Archives when he leaves office in January.
That claim is in federal court documents asking that a lawsuit over the records be dismissed. Cheney [...]
SEC mandates open standard for financial records
Fron NextGov:
The Securities and Exchange Commission passed a rule on Thursday requiring public companies and mutual funds to use a standard electronic format to publish financial information, bringing more transparency, and presumably oversight, to corporate balance sheets and earnings.
SEC commissioners voted 4-1 to require companies to use extensible business reporting language, or XBRL, when filing [...]