Science, Computers and Technology Law

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Primer on Marketing to Promote Your Practice

Michael L. Goldblatt is Associate General Counsel of Tidewater Inc. of New Orleans. He is also webmaster for FindLaw's lawyermarketing.com's site and author of several books and articles on marketing for lawyers. Thousands of law firms have ...
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Privacy and security of your medical records: The New Number

The United States government is now discussing how to deal with the computerization of medical records. The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics has been given the responsibility to possibly implement a Unique Individual Identifier ...
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Privacy Issues in a Hi-Tech Workplace

In today's workplace, computers and electronic communications are the norm rather than the exception. Computers, e-mail, electronic databases and on-line research play an important role in many businesses today. While technological advances have ...
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Privacy Law Update

In recent months, the media has been filled with discussions of privacy issues related to the Internet. Public pressure is forcing the U.S. Congress to deal with these issues. In the first of a series on Internet privacy, we summarize the various ...
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Privacy Limits on Collecting Personal Information via the Internet

As the Internet becomes a larger part of people.s lives, companies are collecting greater volumes of personal information about existing and prospective customers online. Because data privacy law in many jurisdictions is still in its formative ...
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Privacy on the Internet: Balancing the Interests of Internet Users with the Challenges of Growing Internet and Web Commerce

Have you noticed the newest links that have been popping up on some web pages? Little blue words at the bottom of the page beckoning you to click and read about this web site's privacy policy. The statements describing web sites' privacy policies ...
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Privacy Policies: Beware of Changes

If you operate a web site, you should take note of a recent Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") consent order, In re Gateway Learning Corp., which is the first FTC case to challenge deceptive and unfair practices in connection with material changes to ...
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Private Label and Co-Branding Deals: New Deal-Making Paradigms on the Internet

Introduction The Web has created a new way for information providers to interact with their users. Because linking on the Web can create an architecture of sites that appear seamless to users, from the user's perspective it is often unimportant ...
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Privatization in Sub-Saharan Africa: New Opportunities Await

Over the last number of years, several African Governments have embarked on privatization programs. A 1996 World Bank survey, for example, estimated that whereas in 1990 there were 6069 state owned enterprises (SOEs) in the Sub-Saharan region of ...
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Prospective Payment System Final Rule For Hospital Outpatient Services Released-April 2000

The Health Care Financing Administration ("HCFA") published its final regulation regarding the outpatient prospective payment system ("PPS") for Medicare beneficiaries on April 7. The PPS was mandated by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 ("BBA") and ...
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