Topic
Data Gathering
436 published works
PrawfsBlawg
TSA for Tots and Scaling Back Secure Flight
Main Friday, September 23, 2005TSA for Tots and Scaling Back Secure FlightNow your kid (or you) can re-enact the excitement of airline screening! Yes, the airline screening playset pictured here…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Businesses are turning to blogs and away from traditional publishers
InformationWeek as an interesting article about how businesses are going to places like Yahoo and Google to pick up needed information and away from traditional segment leaders--newspaper companies and business…
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FMCSA kills data collection program
By Ken Shigley
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has announced it has terminated the collection and dissemination of motor carrier financial and operating statistics. See article in Fleet Owner. The program…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Change in data collection at the BLS
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that:"A proposal by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to eliminate one mode of collecting data on female workers has raised concern among sociologists,…
The Trademark Blog
Copyright Analysis of Data Harvesting.
Accusing a website of infringing your copyright when it is merely harvesting data (using software to extract data (such as pricing) from a website), may constitute defamation. A jury awarded $250,000…
Tom Mighell
Web Bugs Allowed to Roam Free
By Tom Mighell
In a decision posted last week by the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in the case In re Pharmatrak, Inc. Privacy Litigation, the court ruled that Pharmatrak's…