http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=4611
Privacy law established by stealth in Britain, report says
October 18, 2009 by Dissent Filed under Non-U.S.
Robert Verkaik reports:
Britain has established a privacy law by stealth which has made inroads into all parts of society, a leading human rights law review shows today.
The use of legal arguments based on the claimant’s right to a private life were once almost exclusively restricted to cases brought by celebrities against newspaper groups, but just two of the 28 privacy court cases reported in the last year had any connection with the traditional battle between high-profile individuals and the media.
[...]
Jonathan Cooper, barrister at London’s Doughty Street Chambers and the editor of Sweet & Maxwell’s European Human Rights Law Review, said the UK’s legal system was “playing catch-up with other countries where the concept of privacy has been taken more seriously”. He added: “The absence of privacy rights has been a defect of UK law.”
Read more in The Independent.
Seems correct to me (and I don't often agree with the Ninth Circuit) how else can we be assured that citizens actually signed the petition?
http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=4622
Ninth Circuit overturns preliminary injunction restraining release of names of anti-domestic-partnership petition signers
October 19, 2009 by Dissent
Eugene Volokh comments on a recent Ninth Circuit decision concerning the release of signatures on a public petition:
I don’t think that secrecy of signatures is constitutionally mandated by the First Amendment, just as I don’t think that a secret ballot is constitutionally mandated by the First Amendment. True, the anonymous speech precedents bar the government from requiring that people sign their political statements. But political statements are just speech. Signing an initiative, referendum, or recall petition is a legally operative act — it helps achieve a particular result not just because of its persuasiveness, but because it is given legal effect by the state election law.
The government is surely entitled to require that people who want their signature to have such a legally operative effect must disclose their identities to the government. And I see no reason why the government might not then disclose those identities to the public, who after all are in charge of the government. To do that is to inform the people about who is taking legally operative steps to change the state’s laws (or the state’s elected representatives, in the case of a recall).
Read more on The Volokh Conspiracy.
As long as we're changing the world, why not change politics?
States weigh campaign rules for the Internet age
MADISON, Wis. – To promote his recent campaign for mayor of St. Petersburg, Fla., Scott Wagman bought an ad that popped up online when anyone ran a Google search for his opponents' names.
He was hardly the first to employ the tactic, which didn't stop a rival campaign from complaining the ad did not have a "paid for by" disclaimer. The Florida Elections Commission ordered Wagman to remove it and pay a $250 fine, even though the required disclaimer was longer than the 68 characters allowed in the text of the ad, which wasn't "paid for" until someone clicked on it.
For those times when you want to exercise your inner MBA...
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/022605.html
October 18, 2009
New on LLRX: Competitive Intelligence - A Selective Resource Guide - Updated and Revised
Competitive Intelligence - A Selective Resource Guide - Updated and Revised October 2009: Sabrina I. Pacifici's completely revised and updated pathfinder focuses on leveraging selected reliable, focused, free and low cost sites and sources to effectively profile and monitor companies, markets, countries, people, and issues. This guide is a "best of list" of web, database and email alert products, services and tools, as well as links to content specific sources produced by government, academic, NGOs, the media and various publishers.
(Related) So will Wall Street go RIAA on them, or just wait for the SEC?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19882_3-10377426-250.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
KaChing takes on mutual fund industry
by Rafe Needleman October 18, 2009 4:47 PM PDT
When I wrote about KaChing last December, the site was a fantasy stock market where you could track the pretend portfolios of other investors. But the game of make-believe is coming to an end at the company, and KaChing is now letting users attach real money to their accounts. In doing so, this company is taking on the $11.5 trillion U.S. mutual fund industry. It looks like a great opportunity, both for the investors in the company and consumer equity investors.
Perhaps we should look into Cloud Health Care?
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/10/19/0053207
The Economics of Federal Cloud Computing Analyzed
Posted by kdawson on Monday October 19, @01:11AM from the clouds'-illusions-i-recall dept.
jg21 writes
"With the federal government about to spend $20B on IT infrastructure, this highly analytical article by two Booz Allen Hamilton associates makes it clear that cloud computing has now received full executive backing and offers clear opportunities for agencies to significantly reduce their growing expenditures for data centers and IT hardware. From the article: 'A few agencies are already moving quickly to explore cloud computing solutions and are even redirecting existing funds to begin implementations... Agencies should identify the aspects of their current IT workload that can be transitioned to the cloud in the near term to yield "early wins" to help build momentum and support for the migration to cloud computing.'"
(Related)
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/022606.html
October 18, 2009
New on LLRX: Legal Implications of Cloud Computing - Part Two (Privacy and the Cloud)
Legal Implications of Cloud Computing - Part Two (Privacy and the Cloud): As a follow-up to last month's article that provided an overview of cloud computing in the context of significant legal issues, this article by Tanya Forsheit reviews the issues of privacy and cross-border data transfers.
(Related) In case you thought Cloud Computing isn't happening yet.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/18/google-expands-going-google-ad-campaign-worldwide/
Google Expands “Going Google” Ad Campaign Worldwide
by Michael Arrington on October 18, 2009
Google continues to hit milestones with Google Apps – 2 million businesses and 20 million users in over 100 countries and 40 languages (up from 1.75 million businesses in June). And they aren’t slowing down the advertising, either.
Strangely enough, this too relates to high-volume search and analysis.
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/022607.html
October 18, 2009
New on LLRX: Using Technology To Estimate, Control And Manage Litigation Document Review Budgets
Using Technology To Estimate, Control And Manage Litigation Document Review Budgets: Conrad J. Jacoby details approaches and exercises that contribute to a successful process for calculating - and staying within - a realistic budget for a litigation or regulatory document review.
People now read books on digital e-readers. Book stores are doomed, right?
AddAll
Meta search 20+ ebook sites with one click
(Related) Digital is the way to go...
http://thenextweb.com/europe/2009/10/18/eu-50-years-historic-documents-online-free/
EU Makes 50 Years of Historical Documents Available Online for Free
By Zee on October 18, 2009
At the world’s largest book fair in Frankfurt, the European Union officially launched the EU Bookshop’s digital library, an archive of 50 years of documents in about 50 different languages, all available online for free.
… The library’s contents will also be a part of Europeana, a very impressive site we’ve written about before and devoted to all things European.
Do people still read music?
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-6-sites-to-find-and-print-free-sheet-music-nb/
Top 6 Sites to Find and Print Free Sheet Music
Oct. 18th, 2009 By Mahendra Palsule
Too early to be shopping for Christmas?
Plastic Logic’s Que e-reader: One for the businesspeople in the audience (apparently)
by Nicholas Deleon on October 19, 2009
… What does it do? Well, Timmy, it e-reads all sorts of stuff, including Microsoft Office documents and books from Barnes & Noble.
… Other goodies:
• 8.5×11-inch touchscreen display
• 3G (provided by AT&T), Wi-Fi
• Ability to edit said Office documents on the device itself
… Extra thin, lightweight and wireless-enabled, QUE is the size of an 8.5 x 11 inch pad of paper, less than a 1/3 inch thick, and weighs less than many periodicals.
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