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SReceipts for Online Sales Must Comply With Privacy Law

Posted on March 25, 2008
Source: Lexology, March 25, 2008. SReceipts for online sales must comply with privacy lawMiller Canfield Paddock & Stone"The Fair Credit Reporting Act ("FACTA") is a federal law directed at combating identity theft.:"

Children Being Raised Online, Study Urges Stronger Protections

Posted on March 25, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter March 25, 2008. Kids Being Raised Online, Study Urges Stronger Protections"A British think tank says children spend more than 20 hours a week online, more than three times as much as previous estimates."

Windows Vista SP1 Complaints Draw Free Support From Microsoft

Posted on March 25, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 25, 2008. Windows Vista SP1 Complaints Draw Free Support From Microsoft"Microsoft is offering no-charge Vista SP1 help for all users via e-mail and online chat. "

Blu-Ray Copy Procection Breached

Posted on March 25, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 25, 2008. Blu-Ray Copy Protection Breached"A West Indies company says it has defeated the BD+ DVD copy protection scheme, which was thought to be virtually impenetrable."

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LAW.COM Newswire Highlights March 24, 2008

Posted on March 24, 2008
If you are already an online subscriber to the LAW.COM service you should be able to click on any of the links below, sign in, and access the full text of all articles listed. A subscription to LAW.COM is needed for online access to this service...

FBI Approves New York City Vault for Classified Antiterror Information

Posted on March 24, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 24, 2008. "After Sept. 11, 2001, as New York City began to build a counterterrorism effort to rival those of most nations, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly decided to put an end to the department's reliance on the FBI for classified data...

RateMyCop Invites Public to Rate Police Officers

Posted on March 24, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 24, 2008. "Inspired by Web sites that allow users to rate teachers, doctors, even neighbors, a California couple has created one that allows people to rate police officers and sheriff's deputies across the U...

Despite Flaws, Polygraph Use At its Highest Level in Two Decades

Posted on March 24, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 24, 2008. "Despite decades of criticism, the lie detector won't die, says the Wall Street Journal. Polygraphy long has long been derided as 'voodoo science.' Confessions made under polygraph aren't admitted as evidence in most U...

Waxman Panel to Review Federal Juvenile Crime Grants

Posted on March 24, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 24, 2008. "Grants from the Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention are under review by the House Oversight Committee chaired by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA). Waxman asked Attorney General Michael Mukasey to provide by April 4 documents on the agency's grantmaking procedures...

Witnesses Silent, Murder Clearance Rate Keeps Dropping

Posted on March 24, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 24, 2008. "Witnesses to violent crimes refuse to cooperate in investigations with such regularity that their silence is driving down the rate of solved murders. A survey of 76 police agencies by the Police Executive Research Forum reported by USA Today says that 78 percent cited a decreased willingness to testify among witnesses, and 45 percent reported a drop in the rate of solved cases...

Passport Breaches Expose Human Weakness

Posted on March 24, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 24, 2008. Obama, Clinton, McCain Passport Breaches Expose Human, Not Tech Weakness"The unauthorized access was caught by a monitoring system that was tripped when three State Department contractors accessed the electronic records...

Fired Consultant Indicted for Spam, Disrupting Business

Posted on March 24, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 24, 2008. Fired MedPro Consultant Indicted For Spam, Disrupting Business"New Jersey's Attorney General claims the man retaliated by paying a neighbor to crash Web sites and send spam that looked like it had come from MedPro...

Library Sued for Restricting Internet Time

Posted on March 24, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 24, 2008 Library Sued For Restricting Internet Time "The Tampa, Fla., library recently restricted use of public Internet terminals at its branches to two-and-a-half hours per day and began asking patrons for ID before they could log on...

New Jersey Law Journal Top Stories March 24, 2008

Posted on March 24, 2008
If you are already an online subscriber to New�Jersey Law Journal News Alert Service you should be able to click on any of the links provided below, sign in, and access the full text of articles listed Subscription needed for online access...

Selections from the New York Times March 22-24, 2008

Posted on March 24, 2008
Source: NYTimes.com. Subscription needed for online access. MARCH 22, 2008: Pakistan to Talk With Militants, New Leaders SayBy JANE PERLEZ"American officials fear a softening stance just as President Pervez Musharraf has given the U.S. a freer hand to strike at militants...

List of Selected U.S. Federal Documents from Gallerywatch.com

Posted on March 24, 2008
Selected federal documents below from Gallery Watch.com may include references to government reporrts, Congressional letters, draft bills, and other primary source materials. Documents listed are accessible through subscription to the GalleryWatch...

New York Law Journal Decisions of Interest March 24, 2008

Posted on March 24, 2008
If you are already an online subscriber to this service you should be able to click on any of the links�provided below, sign in, and access any of the decisions listed which interest you. http://www.nylj.com Subscription needed for online access APPELLATE DIVISIONFIRST DEPARTMENTCriminal PracticeCourt Lacks ?Inherent Power? to Compel Inmate?s Solitary Confinement to Prevent False Filings Against Judges Fludd, petitioner v...

New York Law Journal: Fourth Annual Book of Lists

Posted on March 24, 2008
If you are already an online subscriber to New York Law Journal you should be able to click on any of the links provided below, sign in, and access the full text of articles listed http://www.nylj.com Subscription needed for online access Book of Lists March 24, 2008 "The fourth annual New York Law Journal Book of Lists focuses on New York firms and offices, with data on the top corporate practices, most diverse firms, most satisfied summer and mid-level associates, corporations and their outside counsel, firms who do the most pro bono work, and more...

New York Law Journal Featured Columnists March 24, 2008

New York Law Journal Lead Articles March 24, 2008

Justice Defends Inquiry of Former New York Governor Spitzer

Posted on March 21, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 21, 2008. "A sexual blackmail case involving a New York woman seeking a green card suggests the vast power of low- level immigration law enforcers, and a growing desperation on the part of immigrants seeking legal status, reports the New York Times...

Sexual Blackmail Case Shows Power of Immigration Law Enforcers

San Francisco: "Anticrime Cameras Don't Deter Many Criminals'

Posted on March 21, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 21, 2008. "San Francisco's 68 controversial anti-crime cameras haven't deterred criminals from committing assaults, sex offenses or, robberies , and they've only moved homicides down the block, says a report from the University of California-Berkeley quoted by the San Francisco Chronicle...

Not Counting Leap Year, New York City Murders are Up 26 Percent

Posted on March 21, 2008
SourceCrime and Justice News, March 21, 2008. "The New York Police Department is so obsessed with trying to hold down its crime rate that it erased February 29, 2008, at least temporarily, says the Village Voice. A supermarket worker in the city's East Village was killed that day by a co-worker, but according to police department statistics, it didn't happen...

Federal Government Should Boost Crime Fighting Aid in Time of Recession, Expert

Posted on March 21, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 21, 2008. "When Los Angeles crime statistics showed that homicides were up early this year, Police Chief William Bratton said, 'I take responsibility when it goes down, I take responsibility when it goes up.' Criminologist Richard Rosenfeld of the University of Missouri-St...

Crime Victim Advocates Warn of Drastic Federal Aid Cuts

Posted on March 21, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 21, 2008. "Each of New Jersey's 21 counties has a victim- witness office, funded through federal grants. In Philadelphia, a coalition of more than 20 nonprofit victim-witness programs relies on the same federal money...

BlackBerry Users Get 1 GB OF Free Online Storage

Posted on March 21, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 21, 2008. BlackBerry Addicts Get 1 GB Of Free Online Storage"Cortado Connect and Box.net are giving users of BlackBerry smartphones 1 GB of free online storage for pictures, files, music, whatever. If you want more storage, however, you'll have to cough up some dough...

Microsoft's Search Share Continues To Decline According To ComScore

Posted on March 21, 2008
Source:InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 21, 2008. Microsoft's Search Share Continues To Decline"In February, Google had 5.86 billion searches, Yahoo had 2.14 billion, and Microsoft had 953 million, according to comScore." �

New Jersey Subpoenas College Gossip Web Site JuicyCampus

Posted on March 21, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 21, 2008. New Jersey Subpoenas College Gossip Web Site JuicyCampus"Prosecutors are checking to see if the site is commiting fraud by failing to remove offensive posts as promised."

Pennsylvania Voter Registration Site Leaked Personal Information

Posted on March 21, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 21, 2008. Pennsylvania Voter Reg Site Leaked Personal Info"Before the site shut down, PDFs containing names, dates of birth, and portions of social security numbers, could be accessed through the state's servers...

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