Lyle Denniston reports: A gay rights group, renewing its challenge to the military’s “don’t ask/don’t tell” policy against gays in the services, asked the Supreme Court on Friday afternoon to block that ban as the test case over its constitutionality moves on in lower federal courts. Specifically, the Log Cabin Republicans urged the Court to…
Category: Misc
Checked in? 96 percent of Web users haven’t
Doug Gross reports: Location-based mobile apps such as Foursquare might be among the fastest-growing trends for plugged-in technophiles, but the vast majority of Americans still haven’t used them. That’s the finding of a report released Thursday by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. Only 4 percent of adults who use the internet…
Privacy Likely To Remain On Congress’ Radar Despite Boucher Defeat
Wendy Davis reports: Whatever else the defeat of Congress member Rick Boucher (D-Va.) by Republican Morgan Griffith signifies, it likely doesn’t mean that online privacy legislation will be off lawmakers’ agenda. […] Indeed, industry watchers tell MediaPost that they expect Congress will continue to focus on privacy even in Boucher’s absence. “This is not going…
National Science Foundation Funds Purdue Data-Anonymization Project
Dennis Fisher writes: A group of researchers from Purdue University has been awarded $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation to help fund an ongoing project that’s investigating how well current techniques for anonymizing data are working and whether there’s a need for better methods. The grant will help the researchers further their research, which…