Unit #9

 Finding Information on the Open Web

Website #1     justice.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usam/title9/60mcrm.htm#9-60.200

Website #2     papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1138128

Website #3     jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/category/electronic-communications-privacy-act/stored-communications-act 

Website #4     http://www.socialfish.org/2010/08/stored-communications-act.html

  

 

Website #1) 

After reviewing this website it seem to be credible because of the content. All the pages have been reciently update with current information and reference material . It covers a vast amout of laws and relivent statutes. This looks like another great site to reseach in the future. 

  ( 1061 Unlawful Access to Stored Communications—18 U.S.C. § 2701, US Attorneys, USAM, Tital 9, Criminal Resouce Manual, May, 2012, N.P, July 30, 2012)

Website #2) 

This site seems like it should be in the .edu realm. It has good information with references and it’s focused to the subject. Though it is a research paper from a law student, it was also reviewed and endorced by a professor from Goerge Washington University Law School.

 (Kerr, Orin S., The Case for the Third-Party Doctrine. Michigan Law Review, Vol. 107, 2009; GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 421; GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 421. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1138128)

Website #3) 

Here is a well know law school. This is a great research/educational site with tons of reference material. I review the page source document and it’s consistently being update monthly. The date range is from July 2007 to July 2012. It does appear that there are some rss feeds inbedded in the site but there’s also plenty of hard coding as well.

 (Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, electronic-communications-privacy-act/stored-communications-act, July 2012, July 30, 2012)

Website #4) 

This website is more like a blog for personal opinion. I don’t trust this site, not just because of that reason but also because it’s a money site. Like people who blog for a living, there are affiliation programs for you to insert ads and you get paid for anyone who clicks and buys. Though some, possibly all the information is relevent the writer is not focused on the subject they’re refering to. Their job is to get a specific audience to the site using key words, tags and other tools. The site seems to be fairly recent.

 (Maddie Grant, Keep it Legal: Social Media and the Stored Communications Act, SocialFish, 2012, July 30, 2012)

Summery of experience:

Overall it was a good experience. While I was searching the .gov sites I found myself side tracked and looking up information outside my research for this assignments. I stumbled across  the Library of Congress website and began to loose myself. There was so much information and research I wanted to look through but had to stop myself.