It’s a tough call but I think our association’s way-over-the-top antitrustism takes the cake. While a draft (actually it was a second draft) antitrust policy was rejected by the AALL’s Executive Board last summer, and the first version of its…
Posts Tagged ‘Policy’
TRUSTe’s 2011 Website Privacy Index
07
Jan
From the press release: In the 2011 Website Edition of its Privacy Index, TRUSTe analyzed the privacy policies of the top 100 U.S. websites (as ranked by Alexa Sept. 2011) to evaluate privacy practices by measuring key policy attributes, as…
Copyright Office Identifies Libraries, Mass Digitization as Priority In Copyright Policy
31
Oct
Maria A. Pallante, the Registrar of Copyrights, released a report last week identifying the legislative priorities for October 2011 through October 2013. These are, as the proverb goes, interesting times for copyright law, what with every interested party staking out…
Legal Name Change Form
16
Oct
Legal name change form for a child, marriage, divorce and information regarding policy to change
your name or the name of your children. What’s necessary in your state?
Regulating the Unseen Search Engine Algorithm
11
Oct
Reg Chua ponders how public policy can address questions about fair play when a web search company embeds algorithms and personalization into its core product. In Regulating The Algorithm?: How can you regulate what you can’t see [i.e. the algorithm]?…
Short Takes On The News
26
Sep
The National Labor Relations Board issues a preliminary report covering investigations where an employee’s use of social media clashed with an employer’s social media policy. Though there have been reports where an employee’s criticism of an employer has been protected,…
Short Takes On The News
26
Sep
The National Labor Relations Board issues a preliminary report covering investigations where an employee’s use of social media clashed with an employer’s social media policy. Though there have been reports where an employee’s criticism of an employer has been protected,…
EDUCAUSE Policy Analysis of Pending Data Privacy Legislation
27
Aug
EDUCAUSE has released Data Privacy Legislation: An Analysis of the Current Legislative Landscape and the Implications for Higher Education. 18 bills have been introduced in Congress on data privacy. These privacy bills generally fall into three distinct areas: comprehensive online…
Privacy and Security, Not Privacy or Security: Solove on how to make progress in debating the issues
29
Jun
“Daniel Solove is one of America’s leading experts on privacy law. In this engaging book, he explains why privacy is everyone concern; it is a crucial social value that must be integrated into our national security policy rather than simply…
Data Caps Killed My Internet Redux
I’ve been reading the commentary of Andrew Vrignaud highlighted in Joe Hodnicki’s July 25,2011 post A New Genre: ISP Data Cap Policy Killed My Internet. Many major ISPs introduced data caps over the last few years. AT&T, one of the…
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