Rather than management control, let's rely on entry level personnel interpreting polices written before we started this business.
Verizon Reverses Itself on Abortion Messages
By ADAM LIPTAK September 27, 2007
Reversing course, Verizon Wireless announced today that it would allow an abortion rights group to send text messages to its supporters on Verizon’s mobile network.
“The decision to not allow text messaging on an important, though sensitive, public policy issue was incorrect,” Jeffrey Nelson, a spokesman for Verizon, said in a statement, adding that the earlier decision was an “isolated incident.”
Last week, Verizon rejected a request from the abortion rights group Naral Pro-Choice America for a five-digit “short code.” Such codes allow people interested in hearing from businesses, politicians and advocacy groups to sign up to receive text messages.
Verizon is one of the two largest mobile carriers. The other leading carriers had all accepted Naral’s request for the code.
In turning down the request last week, Verizon told Naral that it “does not accept issue-oriented (abortion, war, etc.) programs — only basic, general politician-related programs (Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, etc.).”
Today, Mr. Nelson called that “an incorrect interpretation of a dusty internal policy” that “was designed to ward against communications such as anonymous hate messaging and adult materials sent to children.” The policy, Mr. Nelson said, had been developed “before text messaging protections such as spam filters adequately protected customers from unwanted messages.”
But the program requested by Naral would have sent messages only to people who had asked to receive them.
... Verizon did not respond to repeated requests for copies of the policy or an explanation for why it is withholding it.
... But the company did not retreat from its position that it is entitled to decide what messages to transmit.
Legal experts said Verizon’s position is probably correct under current law, although some called for regulations that would require wireless carriers of text messages to act like common carriers, making their services available to all speakers on all topics.
Interesting talk!
http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail1897.html
Freedom Businesses Protect Privacy
Eben Moglen
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[runtime: 00:39:18, 18 mb, recorded 2007-04-25]
Few, if any, presentations at conferences in the coming years will manage to combine the intellectual depth and delivery skills shown by Software Freedom Law Center director Eben Moglen in this penetrating analysis of privacy and technology.
Moglen begins with the statement that the history of social life is the history of the technology of memory. More than that; the social order and control within society depends on the nature of the technology of memory.
No links, but easy to find...
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/016122.html
September 29, 2007
New on LLRX.com for September 2007
Criminal Justice Resources: Sex Offender Laws, by Ken Strutin
The Veil Doctrine in Company Law, by Amin George Forji
Congressional Budget Office Launches Topical Health Website, by
George Butterfield
CongressLine by GalleryWatch.com: The Earmark Reality, by Paul Jenks
The Government Domain: Click-and-Print State Profiles, by Peggy Garvin
E-Discovery Update: Direct Inspection Of Opposing Party Source Documents, by Conrad J. Jacoby
Reference from Coast to Coast: The Hunt for Historical Annual Reports, by Jan Bissett and Margi Heinen
Burney's Legal Tech Reviews: Elegantly Designed USB and Firewire Hub; Software Offers Users Self-Paced Program for Learning 30 Languages, by Brett Burney
FOIA Facts: Points to Remember, by Scott A. Hodes
After Hours: Best of the Fancy Food Show, by Kathy Biehl
LLRX Book Review by Heather A. Phillips - Eye for an Eye, Heather A. Phillips reviews William Ian Miller's, Eye for an Eye
Commentary on the State Children's Health Insurance Program, by Beth Wellington
Competitive Intelligence - A Selective Resource Guide - Updated and Revised, by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Once, this would have been limited to a few “Boos”
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/7276110
Jets fan sues Patriots, Belichick for $184M
Associated Press, Updated 1 day ago
NEW YORK (AP) - A New York Jets season-ticket holder filed a class-action lawsuit Friday against the New England Patriots and coach Bill Belichick for "deceiving customers."
The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Newark, N.J., by Carl Mayer of Princeton Township, N.J., stems from the Patriots being caught illegally videotaping signals from Jets coaches in New England's 38-14 season-opening win Sept. 9.
"They violated the integrity of the game," Mayer's attorney, Bruce Afran, told The Associated Press. "This is a way of punishing Belichick and the Patriots."
... The two calculated that because customers paid $61.6 million to watch eight "fraudulent" games, they're entitled to triple that amount — or $184.8 million — in compensation under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act and the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act.
For my Business Continuity students
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/30/0132221&from=rss
Coppola Loses All His Data
Posted by kdawson on Sunday September 30, @02:59AM from the no-questions-asked dept.
Colin Smith writes in with an object lesson in backup methodology — once you have backed everything up, take it somewhere else. "Film director Francis Ford Coppola has appealed for the return of his computer backup device following a robbery at his house in Argentina on Wednesday. He told Argentine broadcaster Todo Noticias he had lost 15 years' worth of data, including writing and photographs of his family."
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