April 30, 2001
April 26, 2001
Federal Trade Commission press release: FTC supports legislation to limit junk e-mail (also see Spam Laws)
The FTC's position may sound reasonable, but in fact the Commission favors a horrid out-out bill, S. 630. The FTC praises that bill in its testimony, saying that it "could make the use of commercial email a more effective marketing tool, because consumers likely would be more willing to trust the contents of a piece of UCE if they know the source of the email."
The FTC has been studying the spam issue for several years; you'd think that by now they would have figured out that the problem doesn't have anything to do with the content of communications. An effective spam law could help solve the spam problem, but legislating an opt-out rule would only make it much, much worse than it already is.
April 24, 2001
April 23, 2001
April 22, 2001
April 20, 2001
Wired News: Linking records raises risks (also see GAO Report GAO-01-126SP, Record Linkage and Privacy [1.4 MB PDF])
April 19, 2001
April 18, 2001
Reuters: Bald is bad for discipline, says former referee (a London newspaper reports that soccer referees are more likely to impose penalties on bald or shaven-headed soccer players, apparently because they are perceived as more aggressive)
April 17, 2001
Associated Press: Where did I come from? (Ellis Island officials and the Mormon church offer new database of immigration records, ellisislandrecords.org)
Declan McCullagh's politechbot.com: Brown U professors demand crackdown on anonymous "injurious" email
April 16, 2001
April 13, 2001
April 12, 2001
April 10, 2001
MasterCard International: Cease-and-desist letter to rec.humor.funny (apparently MasterCard can't buy a sense of humor)
April 09, 2001
Purdue University Police: Help identify riot suspects (also see criticism by Prof. Mathieu Deflem; Purdue Exponent editorial)
offshoremp3s.com: Offshore Napster Server Initiative (an effort to establish a Napster server in a jurisdiction beyond the reach of major governments and the RIAA)
April 08, 2001
Federal Communications Commission press release: FCC releases policy statement providing guidance to broadcasters regarding indecency statute
April 06, 2001
CNET News.com: MSN filter sparks subscriber ire (Microsoft ISP begins blocking outbound port 25 traffic in anti-spam effort)
Wired News: Fine print not necessarily in ink (experts question enforceability of clickwrap contracts)
April 05, 2001
April 04, 2001
April 03, 2001
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