E-Business Library > Outcry Over E-Gov Student Database
[Litinform.com] "A growing number of groups concerned about privacy rights are fighting a Department of Education plan to require colleges to place personal information on individual students into a national database maintained by the government.
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[E-lawlibrary.net] The E-LawLibrary Weblog: E-Government: +Web Logs: Increasing Courts' Ability to Quickly Communicate with Constituents, by Walter Latham. The author discusses some court blogs and concludes that "Blogs are one of the tools that courts can use to become more accessible...If your court is contemplating how to increase accessibility to, and interaction with, court users and the broader public, then you should consider the benefits of setting up a blog."
[Gipi.typepad.com] InternetPolicy.net: e-identity: Base21, Jinbonet's website for progressive news in English from South Korea, says: "Lots of civil society entities including press and human rights organizations are showing strong and united resistance against the recently passed Internet Real Name Law as We refuse to comply becomes their mantra. The Internet Real Name Law, which was passed at the plenary session of Parliament on March 9, 2004, requires Internet media and press websites to verify all names and identification numbers of authors who post messages on bulletin boards or chat rooms regarding elections... [The] Internet Real Name Law can [also] be applied to personal websites which contain materials concerning political matters as well as the websites of civil society organizations... Lee Hoon, Vice-President of [the] Association of Internet Newspapers, stressed they would refuse to obey the Internet Real Name Law.
[Gipi.typepad.com] InternetPolicy.net: January 5, 2004 - January 11, 2004 Archives: Stop Censoring Us, a weblog about censorship of the Internet in Iran, quotes the BBC as saying that Iran's judiciary ordered the government to block http://emrooz.org, "a new website close to the reformists." That would be a dog-bites-man story except for a surprising twist in the second half of the item: If we are to believe Mohammad Ali Abtahi, Iran's vice president for legal and parliamentary affairs (who is himself an active blogger), the government also agreed to block Gooyaa, a hard-liner website. Apparently this happened "after 140 Iranian MPs signed a letter asking the President to stop the hardliner-backed websites spreading rumors and false information about reformists figures."
[Sntreport.com] SNT Report: Community & Groups Archives: "The tumultuous process of reviewing portions of the USA Patriot Act is about to begin. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Penn., said Thursday that his Judiciary Committee will begin a series of three hearings starting April 5 to examine the 2001 law and consider which sections should be renewed before their Dec.
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