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- Huge anti-spam suit targets email harvesters
- Unspam Technologies, a company that consults with government agencies and private companies, and with users in 100 countries, filed suit today seeking the identity of those who have harvested millions of emails on behalf of spammers, The Washington Post reports. Attorney Jon Praed of the Internet Law Group said...
- Tags: Courts, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Who owns public employees' emails when they're about 'private' subjects?
- Are email messages between public employees using public computers considered private property? Would that protect the emails from a states open-records law? Thats the question the Idaho Supreme Court is being asked to decide, reports the Associated Press. The dispute is betweeen the The Spokesman-Review newspaper on one...
- Tags: Open government, Government technology, Courts
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- NJ court: Citizens may videotape government meetings
- The New Jersey Supreme Court issued a wake-up all to state and local governments this week: Wake up - its the YouTube era. Robert Wayne Tarus was arrested after he tried to videotape two Pine Hill Borough Council meetings in 2000. Yesterday the state Supreme Court ruled that...
- Tags: Open government, Censorship, Courts, Government technology, State &, Local Govt
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- VT votes to allow convicts to request DNA
- The Vermont Senate will consider allowing prisoners to request testing of DNA evidence, the Rutland Herald reports. In a unanimous preliminary vote, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the bill, based in part on the work of the Innocence Project, based in New York City, on Wednesday. The committee is...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Courts
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- Maine's attempt to force Verizon disclosure moves to CA
- The Maine PUCs attempts to learn whether Verizon provided customer data to the National Security Agency took another turn this week. The case has been assigned to a federal court in California, The Portland Press Herald reports. Last May consumers tried to learn whether the NSA had been provided...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Courts, Privacy
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- FTC asks court to stop pretexting
- Action Research Group, one of the investigative companies hired by HP, and Eye in the Sky Investigations, which subcontracted to Action, have been singled out by the FTC, which has requested a federal court to order the companies to stop "pretexting," InfoWorld reports. In a complaint filed Wednesday...
- Tags: Government technology, Courts
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- IN tests GPS tech for 24/7 monitoring
- Indiana officials are testing out a new GPS system in Allen County to monitor sex offenders and violent offenders on parole, The Indianapolis Star reports. The Allen County trial is a prelude to statewide use of the devices for all sexual and violent parolees. Last year, lawmakers...
- Tags: Courts, Government technology, State &, Local Govt
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
- Court OKs warrantless tracking with GPS
- The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that police can place a GPS tracking unit on a suspects car without obtaining a search warrant. In US v Garcia (2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 2272), decided Feb. 2, Judge Richard Posner found that such a device was a mere "augmentation"...
- Tags: Government technology, Courts, Law enforcement, GPS
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- Law that bans datamining of drug prescriptions challenged
- May a state bar data mining companies from discovering which individual doctors prescribe brand-name and generic drugs? Thats the question before a federal court this week, reports the Associated Press. Two datamining companies sued the state days after the law took effect, arguing it violates their freedom...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Courts, Privacy
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
- LA Supreme Court will be first to stream oral arguments
- In Washington, the Supreme Court is just putting its toe in the Internet waters by sometimes releasing same-day audio of oral arguments. In the supposed backwaters of Louisiana, the state supreme court is a little more adverturous. Starting next week, oral arguments at Louisianas highest court will be webcast...
- Tags: Government technology, Courts, Web, oral argument
- Blog posts 2007-01-12
- Bloggers get a seat - two actually - at Libby trial
- A first in the federal courts: Two of the 100 seats reserved for the media to cover the trial of Scooter Libby will go to bloggers, the first win in an ongoing effort to get bloggers full respect in the countrys courthouses, The Washington Post reports. After two years...
- Tags: Government technology, Courts, blogger
- Blog posts 2007-01-11
- Supreme Court rejects appeal of FL voting machines
- The U.S. Supreme Court will not consider whether Floridas touch-screen voting machines need to have a paper trail in case of a recount, The Orlando Sentinel reports. U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler appealled a lower-court ruling that the states touch-screen voting machines dont need to leave a paper ballot trail....
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Courts, Elections, Christine Jennings
- Blog posts 2007-01-10
- Law 'blawgs' provide new venue for lawyers, judges
- A judges career no longer has to end when he steps down from the bench. In Kentucky, retired judge Stan Billingsley uses a blog to set the record straight on a variety of legal questions, The Lexington Herald-Leader reports. "We look at the law behind the issues," Billingsley...
- Tags: Government technology, Courts, judiciary, Lexington, blogger, advertisement
- Blog posts 2007-01-08
- In Iowa, camera tickets deemed illegal
- In Iowa, the city of Davenport may wind up refunding traffic fines to some 14,000 drivers who were issued civil rather than criminal citations when cameras captured them speeding or running red lights, The Quad-City Times reports. District Court Judge Gary McKenric ruled that the citys policy that violations...
- Tags: camera, Iowa, Law enforcement, Courts, State &, Local Govt, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- GA Supreme Court limits anti-SLAPP law
- The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that a woman who criticized a nonprofit organization for the care it provided to her disabled son was not protected against a defamation lawsuit by the states anti-SLAPP Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation law, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Georgia Community Support and Solutions...
- Tags: anti-SLAPP, Courts, Government technology
- Blog posts 2006-11-29
- Detection bracelet may stop alcohol-related crime
- In Texas several areas are experimenting with a novel way to handle alcohol-related crimes: an electronic bracelet that detects alcohol use, reports the Houston Chronicle. Sherman L. Harris knows alcohol has caused problems in his life. After struggling with the bottle for five years, he was arrested for assaulting...
- Tags: bracelet, alcohol, offender, Scram
- Blog posts 2006-11-28
- LA Supreme Court hears utility broadband appeal
- Its a government utility against the telecommunications industry, as the Louisiana Supreme Court hears arguments on the Lafayette Utilities Systems plans to deploy a phone, cable and Internet service, the Advocate reports. Voters approved the plan but Louisiana 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals stopped the plan, saying that...
- Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, broadband, LUS
- Blog posts 2006-11-14
Additional Resources
- Print this: Actually, please don't, but DO think about why printers should get more airtime in green tech discussions
- I was talking to someone within the past couple of months (I honestly can't remember who right now, sorry) who made a pretty profound statement that seems pertinent in the context of this post. I had just admitted, somewhat shamefacedly, to my ongoing addiction to printing out my notes, presentations...
- Tags: Green Technology, Printing, Printers, Document Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89
- Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Stock, IBM Corp., Tech Stock, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services
- Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...
- Tags: Fee, Verizon Communications Inc., Text Messaging, Messaging, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
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