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The department of Justice's demand earlier this year that Google turn over customer search records has thrown a spotlight on data privacy. The Feds aren't the only ones seeking a peek–electronic-privacy consultant Ray Everett-Church says lawyers often seek electronic records to build their cases.
Six years after starting out as a one-woman firm in 1997, Deborah Marlor's sales and marketing company was bursting at the seams. Her work force had grown from 12 employees to 32, occupying two separate but equally overcrowded business locations. It was, says Marlor, a business owner's nightmare.
If you've ever suffered through an important meeting in another city dressed in the clothes you wore on the plane because an airline lost your luggage, listen up: Airlines lost or mishandled 23 percent more bags in 2005 than in 2004, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. That's about 3.5 million bags annually–or 10,000 per day!
AP - Israeli forces rounded up dozens of Palestinian Cabinet ministers and lawmakers from Hamas, increasing pressure on the Islamic militants to release a captured Israeli soldier, and witnesses said tanks moved into northern Gaza, widening Israel's largest military operation in the year since Israel pulled out of the seaside territory.
AP - Up to 200,000 people in the Wilkes-Barre area were ordered to evacuate their homes Wednesday because of rising water on the Susquehanna River, swelled by a record-breaking deluge that has killed at least 12 people across the Northeast.
AP - Eleven Sunni insurgent groups have offered an immediate halt to all attacks — including those on American troops — if the United States agrees to withdraw foreign forces from Iraq in two years, insurgent and government officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Israeli ground troops are pressing on with military attacks inside Gaza to rescue a kidnapped soldier. A Palestinian militant group said it had killed another abducted Israeli, an 18-year-old settler, The Associated Press reported. Palestinians said at least two Hamas ministers were arrested in the West Bank, where the Israeli army confirmed it was operating. Warplanes were also in action, striking targets in Gaza.
Up to 200,000 people were ordered Wednesday to evacuate as rising flood water threatened a Pennsylvania town, county authorities said. Many area roads are under 6 to 8 feet of water hampering efforts to reach hundreds of people believe trapped. Rain-swollen creeks and rivers are causing problems from upstate New York to Virginia.
Henry Paulson's move from Wall Street to President Bush's Cabinet became official Wednesday, when the Senate confirmed him to be the nation's 74th Treasury secretary, succeeding John Snow.
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