Monday, August 18, 2003


Interesting story of unintended consequences?

Did Congress realize that the Wireless act they passed in 1999 really opened the door to privacy concerns?

E911 privacy, or E911 privacy intrusion?. CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh examines the FCC debate about whether to keep undisclosed the location of a person using a mobile phone to browse the Web or send text messages. [CNET News.com]

comment [] 9:16:01 AM    

From E-Mail - "The report of my death is greatly exagerrated."

Aggregators Attack Info Overload. Internet news addicts are turning in droves to so-called aggregator services, which relieve information overload by condensing multiple sites into a single feed. By Ryan Singel. [Wired News]

comment [] 8:32:32 AM    

Latinos get e-vote -- do we?

I still think that the criticism of e-vote technologies is not necessarily on the button, so to speak.  The cry for paper audit trails is a false one as some of our analog technologies never had such a trail -- and the criticism ignores the obvious paper failure of all time -- Florida.

Argentines to Get the E-Vote. More than 500,000 citizens in Buenos Aires province will cast their votes for governor using a keyboard and a computer screen in an upcoming election. The system has been successfully tested in Brazil, but will it fly in another embattled Latin American country? By Flavio Bustos. [Wired News]

comment [] 8:31:18 AM    


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