| beSpacific: January 2003 Archives (8246 words) |
 | Not surprisingly, on January 22, Microsoft filed an emergency motion for a stay pending appeal with the 4th Circuit, of the January 21 order by U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz(Maryland) granting Sun Microsystems Inc.'s motion for preliminary injunction requiring Microsoft to add Java to its Windows OS within 120 days of the order. |
| U.S. military websites are subject to a new directive issued on January 3 by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to remove sensitive, unclassified information published on the huge DOD web databases (comprising 770 gigabytes of total data), that could potentially be of assistance to the intelligence gathering efforts of our enemies. |
| According to a January 7, 2003 press release from Privacy & American Business (P&AB), "A majority (56%-91%) of the U.S. public believes it is acceptable for the private sector to use biometric technologies." The study was funded by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. |
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