EDUPAGE> Edupage, May 07, 2003

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TOP STORIES FOR WEDNESDAY, MAY 07, 2003
  Two Federal Agencies Defend Data-Mining Projects
  EarthLink to Implement Challenge-Response System
  House Subcommittee Votes to Restrict Online Gambling
  Experts Question Effectiveness of Eye Scanning
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  EDUCAUSE Releases Results of Current Issues Survey
  Iowa Considers Selling State-Owned Education Network


TWO FEDERAL AGENCIES DEFEND DATA-MINING PROJECTS
James Loy of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and
Anthony Tether of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
appeared before Congress and defended their agencies' separate
data-mining projects. The TSA's Computer Assisted Passenger
Prescreening System (CAPPS II) and DARPA's Total Information Awareness
(TIA) program have drawn criticism and concern from privacy advocates,
many Democratic members of Congress, and even some conservative groups.
Loy told Congress that CAPPS II will improve security at U.S. airports
and that his agency is working very hard to address the fears expressed
over the system's screening of passengers. Tether said TIA would not
collect vast amounts of data on citizens but would create scenarios for
terrorist attacks and try to match those scenarios with information in
public databases. TIA, said Tether, would not search for unknown
patterns, which would lead to many false positives, but would start
with the scenarios created by experts. "DARPA is not developing a
system to profile the American public," said Tether.
ComputerWorld, 7 May 2003
http://www.idg.net/ic_1313544_9677_1-5046.html

EARTHLINK TO IMPLEMENT CHALLENGE-RESPONSE SYSTEM
EarthLink, the nation's third-largest provider of e-mail accounts,
will implement a challenge-response system in an effort to reduce the
amount of unwanted e-mail. The first time someone sends an e-mail to an
EarthLink account, the sender is prompted to perform an action to
indicate that the sender is a live person rather than a server simply
generating millions of e-mail messages. If the sender verifies himself
in this way, subsequent messages are delivered without this process.
EarthLink subscribers will be able to add acceptable e-mail addresses
to their address books so that senders from those addresses will not be
required to verify themselves. There will be no additional charge for
the challenge-response system, and it will be optional for subscribers.
Yahoo, MSN, and Hotmail, three of EarthLink's main competitors, are
evaluating challenge-response systems; AOL said the technology places
an unnecessary burden on users.
Washington Post, 7 May 2003
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22390-2003May6.html

HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE VOTES TO RESTRICT ONLINE GAMBLING
A House judiciary subcommittee this week approved legislation that
would make it a crime for banks or other financial institutions to make
payments--including credit card or electronic fund transfers--to
Internet gambling sites. Participating in online gambling is regarded
by many as illegal under existing U.S. laws, but because most online
gambling sites are hosted outside the United States, Congress has had
difficulty finding an effective legislative approach to ending online
gambling. The bill passed by the subcommittee was sponsored by Rep. Jim
Leach (R-Iowa) and reportedly has support from the White House. Rep.
John Conyers (R.-Mich.) introduced his own online gambling bill,
comparing Leach's to alcohol prohibition in the 1920s. Conyers's bill
takes the approach of regulating online gambling through licensing and
taxation.
Internet News, 7 May 2003
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/2202431

EXPERTS QUESTION EFFECTIVENESS OF EYE SCANNING
Even as nations in the G8 are reportedly supporting development of
iris-scanning systems to verify the identity of international
travelers, experts are voicing a range of concerns over how effective
such techniques can be. Experts agree that eye-scanning technologies
have the potential to provide an additional tool in efforts to guard
security, but current technology remains unproven. A report last year
from the U.S. Department of Defense showed error rates of around six
percent, compared to manufacturer claims of 0.5 percent. The U.S.
Government Accounting Office said that the largest iris-scanning
database last fall had only 30,000 records. By contrast, as many as 240
million people travel to and from the United States each year, and
there are 13 million people on the FBI's watch list. Experts said the
potential to slow down security checks at airports is significant.
Other problems exist, including fear among some people about perceived
danger of having a light shone in their eyes and resistance of some to
being touched by other people.
BBC, 7 May 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3003571.stm

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EDUCAUSE RELEASES RESULTS OF CURRENT ISSUES SURVEY
EDUCAUSE has published the results of its fourth annual Current IT
Issues Survey in the current issue of "EDUCAUSE Quarterly." The survey
gathered responses from 542 of EDUCAUSE's 1,620 member institutions,
representing colleges and universities of all sizes and types. IT
funding challenges was the top issue in three of four categories:
strategic importance, potential to become much more significant, and
demanding more time of campus IT leaders. Security and identity
management this year is a top-ten issue for those three categories and
also for the fourth, human and fiscal resource consumption. The survey
also revealed that maintaining and upgrading network and IT
infrastructure has risen in significance since last year, and that
distance education is--for the first time in four years--no longer a
top-ten issue for any of the four categories.
EDUCAUSE, 7 May 2003
http://www.educause.edu/asp/doclib/abstract.asp?ID=EQM0322

IOWA CONSIDERS SELLING STATE-OWNED EDUCATION NETWORK
Lawmakers in Iowa are considering selling the Iowa Communication
Network, a fiber-optic network used by educational programs in the
state and by state agencies. According to one lawmaker, the network,
which was started in 1989, costs the state as much as $25 million a
year, which the state can no longer afford. Officials from colleges and
universities that use the network fear that if the network is sold to a
private company the rates those institutions pay for access will
increase. A rate increase could threaten many distance-education
programs, which use the network for high-speed Internet connections,
full-motion video, and telephone services. The appropriations bill
passed by the state legislature requires any company that buys the
network to make services available to colleges and universities, but
the bill does not control rates charged.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 May 2003 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2003/05/2003050601t.htm

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