[Sigifp-l] Information Policy summaries 2/19

[Terrence Maxwell]

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

FCC Phone Rule Proposals Criticized.
<http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-fcc3feb03.story>
Conservative leaders, joining Democrats and a host of disparate groups, will 
urge the Federal Communications Commission to pull back on proposals that 
would dramatically change telephone competition rules.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Toner company fights DMCA lawsuit.
<http://msn.zdnet.com/zdfeeds/msncobrand/reviews/0,13828,2910015,00.html>
In a final round of skirmishing prior to a court hearing Friday, a North 
Carolina company argued that a controversial copyright law does not prevent 
it from selling computer chips that allow toner cartridges to be reused.

Copyright News.
<http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2003/petitions/static.pdf>
'The Copyright Office has granted a petition by Static Control Components 
Inc. to consider a newly proposed class of works to be exempted from the 
prohibition on circumvention of technological measures that control access 
to copyrighted works as part of a pending rulemaking pursuant to the Digital 
Millennium Copyright Act.'

Jack Valenti Interview.
<http://www.hpronline.org/news/347207.html?mkey=628413>
In recent years, Valenti has become an outspoken leader in the fight against 
piracy on the Internet.

Domain Name Ruling in Appeals Court.
<http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=1326>
A federal appeals court has upheld the right of a Dallas man to use the name 
of a local shopping mall as the domain name for a Web site singing the 
praises of that mall, as well as a second Web site denouncing the mall's 
owner for suing him under the federal trademark laws.

GOVERNMENT INFORMATION USE

States Mining Data To Boost Tax Revenues.
<http://www.nj.com/business/ledger/index.ssf?/base/business-3/104434381947750.xml>
Los Angeles officials scoured 324,000 electronic files in the process
of hunting down Don Mann, an admitted business-tax violator.

SECURITY

USA Patriot II?
<http://www.privacy.org/patriot2draft.pdf>
DOJ appears to have quietly made a draft of USA Patriot II, which includes 
an anti-encryption section.
See Also: <http://online.securityfocus.com/news/2296>

Bush Orders Guidelines for Cyber-Warfare
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38110-2003Feb6.html>
President Bush has signed a secret directive ordering the government to 
develop, for the first time, national-level guidance for determining when 
and how the United States would launch cyber-attacks against enemy computer 
networks, according to administration officials.

Progress Seen in Border Tests of ID System.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/07/politics/07IMMI.html>
Immigration officials say they are moving rapidly to meet a congressionally 
mandated deadline for a sophisticated new identification system to be in use 
at its 100 most porous entry points over the next year.
Registration required.

Ashcroft's worrisome spy plans.
<http://news.com.com/2010-1071-983921.html>
Attorney General John Ashcroft wants even more power to snoop on the 
Internet, spy on private conversations and install secret microphones, 
spyware and keystroke loggers.

AUTHENTICITY

Feds pull suspicious .gov site.
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-983384.html>
WASHINGTON--In a move that raises questions about the security of 
governmental domains, the Bush administration has pulled the plug on a .gov 
Web site pending an investigation into the authenticity of the organization 
that controlled it.
See Also: <http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/07/HNmysterysite_1.html>

Web Magazine Retracts Virus Hoax Story.
<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=528&e=1&cid=528&u=/ap/20030207/ap_on_hi_te/internet_hoax>
In a bizarre case of one journalist deceiving another, an Internet news site 
published - then embarrassingly retracted - a story that claimed a radical 
Islamic group was behind a virus-like attack that clogged the Internet.
Why the hoax was created: <http://www.pc-radio.com/why.html>

MISCELLANEOUS

CDT Policy Post.
Volume 9, Number 4, 5 February 2003
<http://www.cdt.org/publications/pp_9.04.shtml>
Contents:
(1) Congress to Decide Fate of DoD Data-Mining Program
(2) What is TIA and What Is Congress' Role?
(3) Next Step - The House Senate Conference Now Under Way

The Filter
No. 5.6, 7 February 2003
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filter/>
CONTENTS:
[1] In the News: Eldred v. Ashcroft, Ruling & Reaction
[2] Dispatches: The Economist on "The Internet Society"
[3] Berkman News: ILAW, Dave Winer & Ethan Zuckerman, CFP
[4] Conference Watch: Spectrum Policy, ILAW, CFP, OSCOM
[5] Bookmarks: DMCA Rulemaking, Brewster Kahle
[6] Quotable: Jack Valenti, Peter Swire, Jonathan Zittrain
[7] Talk Back

INTERNATIONAL

Missing Hard Drive Recovered.
<http://cbc.ca/stories/2003/02/04/diskdrive_030204>
Canada - police have recovered a missing computer hard drive that contained 
sensitive personal information on more than one million people.

Malaysiakini awaits the return of four servers in police custody.
<http://www.dfn.org/news/malaysia/servers.htm>
'Malaysiakini, a popular online independent news provider in Malaysia, 
continues to await the return of four servers that have been in police 
custody since the police raided its office on January 20. Many believe that 
the raid is part of the Malaysian government's larger effort to suppress 
alternative news sources in the event that general elections are held later 
this year.'

London's new charging zone becomes security zone.
<http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,892001,00.html>
Security cameras will be able to zoom in on the faces of drivers entering 
London's congestion charge zone as part of a sophisticated 'ring of steel' 
around the capital.

Complied by Dylan Thomarie
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