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Bill to add emails to sex registry

The latest wrinkle in the battle against sex offenders: The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill to include email addresses and online IDs in offenders' records in the national registry of sex offenders, The Washington Post reports. The legislation is called Keeping the Internet Devoid of Sexual...

Tags: Registry, Legislation, E-mail Address, MySpace, Sex Offender, E-mail, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-12-16

SPY Acts vs. CAN-SPAM: No difference

Yesterday I wrote about cyber crime -- particularly as promulgated through email messages. This morning I read House Approves Second Anti-Spyware Bill. The bill is officially called H.R. 1525: Internet Spyware  Prevention Act of 2007 and commonly known as the I-SPY Act. It follows H.R. 29 [109th]: Securely Protect Yourself Against Cyber...

Tags: Spyware, Spam, Security, Scams, Phishing, Legislation

Blog posts 2007-06-08

A rational debate on Net Neutrality

The subject of Net Neutrality has become so politicized that it's almost impossible to have a rational debate on the subject. Even the term "Net Neutrality" has become a political slogan that is often deliberately vague to hide its true meaning. Is it even possible to have a rational debate...

Tags: Vint Cerf, Google Inc., Legislation, Tim Berners-Lee, QoS, Network, Prioritization, Customer, Net Neutrality, Service, Carrier, Ed Whitacre, Snowe-Dorgan, Internet, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-06-04

ME bill would require stores to accept phones for recycling

65,000 tons of cell phones is hard to imagine, but that is the amount of cellphones Americans dispose of each year. In an effort to keep some of them out of the landfill, the Maine legislature is considering a proposal to make it mandatory that all cellphones be recycled, reports...

Tags: State &, Local Govt, Legislation, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-04-17

NH will challenge Real ID again, address other privacy issues

The New Hampshire House last year pushed a bill rejecting the federal Real ID law - which would require states to remake their driver licenses to serve as a sort of national ID card - but it was shut down in the state Senate. This year, Republican Rep....

Tags: Neal Kurk, REAL ID, privacy issue

Blog posts 2007-01-29

Using HP UDO and HP LTO WORM Technologies as Part of a Regulatory Compliance Solution - White Paper

New legislation is re-defining the way to store and manage data. Information Lifecycle Management ILM is the new term used to describe the managing of data from its creation through deletion based on its business value. Depending on the legislation applicable to your company, generally speaking, legal compliance puts the...

Tags: Legislation, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Lifecycle Management, Corporate Governance, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Financial Accounting, Regulatory Compliance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures

White papers 2005-01-01

Uniting legislation With RFID Privacy-Enhancing Technologies

RFID is a popular identification and automation technology with serious security and privacy threats. Legislation expounds upon the actual security and privacy needs of people in RFID-enabled environments, while technology helps to ensure legal compliance. This paper examines the main aims of RFID privacy legislation, and explains how to achieve...

Tags: Legislation, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics

White papers

Incorporating CMM and CMMI Into a Corporate Governance Strategy Using Enterprise Software Change Management

A leading motivator today for improving software change management processes is to meet internal corporate governance guidelines. Legislation is suggesting that process improvements are necessary to satisfy auditing requirements like Sarbanes-Oxley or the FDA's 21CFR-part 11. The importance of having audit trails available to meet internal and external audits is...

Tags: Legislation, Enterprise Software, Capability Maturity Model, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Capability Maturity Model (CMM), Process Improvement, Business Operations, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Quality

Webcasts

Who's in Charge in a Regional Disaster?: The legislation Behind the Chain of Command in Disaster Response

This webcast explores the legislation behind the chain of command in disaster response and how this can this affect a recovering business. Federal legislation covered includes the Posse Comitatus Act, Nat'l Emergencies Act, Insurrection Act and more.

Tags: Legislation, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Webcasts

Additional Resources

Bell Canada's packet inspection violates privacy law, group says

And you didn't like Comcast's TCP resets. Something far more egregious is going on in Canada, where Bell Canada has been engaged in deep-packet inspection of traffic. Bell is using DPI to find and limit the use of peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent, which it says are congesting its network,...

Tags: Bell Canada, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Common misconceptions about database security

There seems to be a serious disconnect and knowledge gap between IT security and DBAs who are entrusted with the task of safeguarding databases, says Sentrigo CTO Slavik Markovich. Commentary--You would think that enterprises realize by now that databases, which hold the “crown jewels” of sensitive information, need protecting....

Tags: Database Administrator, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, security, database, IT management, Slavik Markovich, CTO of Sentrigo

News items 2008-05-05

Using mail for phishing

Using mail for phishingSnailmail phishing already happening - legally!Murph said: [i]"As it turned out the letter we got was naive but genuine - but your next one may not be because sooner or later some bad guy is going to do this - and take at least a few hundred...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, phishing, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-04-30

OXML as Microsoft's swivel point

OXML as Microsoft's swivel pointYes, but...There's always a but isn't there? Correct me if I'm wrong but from what I've observed Microsoft isn't really going to follow what the folk on the ISO committee are going to do to both fix and develop OXML.It is all just a deja vu...

Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, Microsoft Corp., oXML

Discussion threads 2008-04-18

Comcast's true speeds and the BitTorrent deal

So, I talked to former ZD technical director and editor at large George Ou last week. He's been looking at Comcast's claims for its DOCSIS 3.0 rollout in Minneapolis. I passed along Comcast's projections that the service would 50 Mbps downstream and 5 Mbps up. ...

Tags: BitTorrent, Network, Comcast Corp., Mbps, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Networking, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-04-09

HP: Cloud computing will cut 'dull' IT jobs

HP: Cloud computing will cut 'dull' IT jobsDo you trust your data to China, Russia or Malaysiayou better...Like it not -I agree with the HP assessment. Evolving roles in the tech community are constantly changing. Change with them or move on to something else - whining/griping about it will not...

Tags: Strategy, Hewlett-Packard Co., IT job, cloud computing, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-04-08

Can the UK government regulate US-based social networking sites?

Can the UK government regulate US-based social networking sites?Home Office attention welcome but ignorantSteve, a good piece. I saw this covered today and my first though was how this could possibly be enforced on non-UK websites. My second thought was whether the same plans would extend to business...

Tags: social networking, social networking site

Discussion threads 2008-04-03

OSIsoft, Long Used for Performance Measurement, Now Boosts Environmental Sustainability

A large and growing use of OSIsoft software is helping companies measure and monitor energy and other resource consumption, conserve energy use, reduce their carbon emissions, and improve water quality. The fear of global warming has accelerated interest in carbon footprint reduction, of course, as have government requirements at a...

Tags: Performance, Microsoft Corp., OSIsoft, Tools & Techniques, Portals, Monitors & Displays, Productivity, Management, Internet, Hardware, Components

Case studies 2008-04-01

Microsoft Meets Open Source: Glasnost 2.0

Last week I spent two days on campus in Redmond with about 40 of my industry colleagues at the Microsoft Technology Summit, an annual invite-only event where Microsoft selects a swath of people from all over the world -- key technology influencers -- to learn about what the company is...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-03-31

Court stays FCC's new E911 standards

Court stays FCC's new E911 standardsSeptember 11 coincidence?I wonder how much of this legislation is going to be used for the purposes of tracking domestic citizens, under the guise of a “safety” law?

Tags: Federal government, Quality, E911, FCC

Discussion threads 2008-03-27

Turn your PC into the ultimate DVD changer

Turn your PC into the ultimate DVD changere: Turn your PC into the ultimate DVD changerFrom the linked article:[i]NOTE: DVD Shrink can break the copy protection on most DVDs without issue, but if you're having a problem, try running previously mentioned DVD43, which promises to remove copy protection from virtually...

Tags: Consumer electronics, Fair Use, DVD, ultimate DVD-changer, copy protection, DVD-changer, DMCA, PC

Discussion threads 2008-03-25