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- Deadline today for comments on RealID
- The deadline to file comments on the Real ID Act is 5pm ET on Tuesday, May 8, Declan McCullagh reports on the News.com blog. If you want to object or offer praise to the idea, a website called Privacy Coalition is set up to send in comments on...
- Tags: Privacy, Homeland security, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- TSA watchlists based on antique technology. Would ChoicePoint do a better job?
- Writing in Technology Review, Mark Williams explains that the problem with the Transportation Security Administrations watchlists - which famously produce reams of false positives - is based on a very old algorithm called Soundex. Latanya Sweeney, director of the Data Privacy Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon Universitys School...
- Tags: Government technology, Privacy, Homeland security
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- USPTO: Filesharing poses national security risks
- The US Patent and Trademark Office has issued a report that finds filesharing programs "threaten the security of personal, corporate, and governmental data,” according to Jon Dudas, the Bush Administration’s point person on copyright policy. According to a government press release, distributors intentionlly included features to facilitate...
- Tags: Homeland security, Privacy, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- Datamining program violated privacy laws
- The Department of Homeland Security has violated privacy laws in the testing of an aggressive data-mining program, a forthcoming Government Accountability Office reports says. The Washington Post reports that the GAO found that DHS researchers used citizens real information instead of fake data in testing the ADVISE program. ADVISE...
- Tags: Privacy, Government technology, Homeland security
- Blog posts 2007-02-28
- Report: DHS must complete privacy assessments
- The Homeland Security Department is not doing enough to protect personal information within its computer systems, Government Computer News reports on DHS Inspector General Richard L. Skinners report. The department has performed draft assessments of most of its computer systems, but only 23 percent of those assessments of...
- Tags: Government technology, Homeland security, Privacy
- Blog posts 2007-02-23
- Secure Flight violated privacy law, report finds
- The Transportation Security Administration violated federal law by gathering passenger information from commercial databases without notifying passengers, a report by the Department of Homeland Securitys privacy office concludes. According to the Washington Post, TSAs Secure Flight program violated the 1974 Privacy Act, which requires that the public be...
- Tags: Transportation Security Administration, EagleForce, commercial data, Government technology, Homeland security, Privacy
- Blog posts 2006-12-22
- EFF sues DHS over risk assessment data collection
- The Department of Homeland Securitys Automated Targeting System ATS has come under fire after a notice in the Federal Register revealed that the agency was creating "risk assessments" of air travelers. The latest fuel on that fire is a lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against the...
- Tags: Privacy, Homeland security, Government technology, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
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- No drama, Obama? Sounds dramatic to me...
- In today's radio address, the President-elect specifically said he intends to add jobs in the greentech sector. Here's the specific passage: "We'll put people back to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, modernizing schools that are failing our children, and building wind farms and solar panels; fuel-efficient cars...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Government, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-22
- Automating peer review may do much more
- It's important to note that this is a process which, because of the need for security, and the lack of data format standards, has not been computerized before. Getting it into templates makes many important things possible by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Acesis, XML, Open Source, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-22
- Why Apple and Google need to get into the Netbook business
- This crappy photo-edit of a fairly standard netbook design illustrates the power of Apple branding. ZDNet Editor in Chief Larry Dignan recently picked up a Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Ubuntu Netbook and pinged me for tech support questions regarding his new toy --...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Apple iPod, Operating System, Apple Inc., Wireless, Android, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-22
- Deep in the heart of Texas: Electronics recycling infrastructure expanded
- The vendor-funded recycling organization MRM more formally known as Electronic Manufacturers Recycling Management Company has inked a deal with Goodwill Industries in Texas that will extend the territory it can cover in the state. MRM was started as a joint venture by Panasonic Corp. of America, Sharp...
- Tags: Texas, Electronics, MRM DOES, Policies And Procedures, Human Resources, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Will email and text messages get shorter with the BlackBerry Storm?
- I am admittedly a very big fan of physical keyboards on my mobile phones and have what fellow MobileTechRoundup podcast co-hosts James and Kevin call "magic thumbs". I am able to pick up devices like the Palm Treo Pro, HTC Fuze, T-Mobile G1 or BlackBerry Bold and quickly type emails...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry, E-mail, BlackBerry Device, Storm, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- A live, more interactive Rev3
- Television and the Internet are on a collision course that will revolutionize entertainment, but Revision3 is always one step ahead of the game. Today, they launched a new live video player that allows the user to be the director. That's right, you...
- Tags: Episode, Media Players, Internet, Corporate Communications, Instant Messaging, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Online Communications, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- IT resellers encouraged to spread the EPEAT green gospel
- If you're not interested in understanding the in's and out's of the EPEAT Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool rating systems, the Green Electronics Council has started training IT solutions and services providers about how to better-interpret the information for their clients. EPEAT uses 51 different criteria (such...
- Tags: Information Technology, Reseller, EPEAT, Federal Government, Strategy, Government, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- SAP's Apotheker: 'Happy John Wookey joined us'; Business hasn't gotten worse
- SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker said Friday that John Wookey, a former Oracle executive, is "a great software man" who will help the enterprise software giant push its software as a service meets on-premise applications strategy. Separately, Apotheker noted that business hasn't gotten worse from the outlook the company gave on...
- Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Microsoft is 5th most spam-friendly ISP
- Spammers are abusing Microsoft's online services at such an alarming rate that a non-profit spam fighting group now lists Microsoft as the world's 5th most spam-friendly ISP Internet Service Provider. The latest update of Spamhaus.org's list of the world's worst spam networks shows Microsoft at #5 because...
- Tags: Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Insurers place first bid made in health reform game
- Right now insurers can pressure hospitals into forcing that decision on families. Should government have it? Can we set a standard for it? How would you split that baby of cost vs. life? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Game, Insurance Company, Health Care, David, Insurance, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Government, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- SAG follows the path blazed by the UAW
- The Screen Actors Guild SAG is starting a fight over union rules as they apply to Internet-only productions. If they win, they are likely to shift even more content creation opportunities away from major studios in a futile attempt to hinder evolution in a market changed dramatically by technology....
- Tags: Union, UAW, Media, Internet, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Student Technology Day: session videos now online
- Last month I attended the Microsoft Student Technology Day 2008 full coverage here in London, with Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, Andy McLoughlin, CEO of Huddle.net and many others. It was really quite an eye-opening day to some of the work at Microsoft, and from the many emails I got...
- Tags: Multi-touch, Steve Ballmer, Video, Microsoft Corp., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Salesforce.com: Recession resistant or just late to the pain?
- On the surface, Salesforce.com's third quarter was impressive. The company hit or exceeded its targets and noted that its "value proposition" was resonating among enterprise software buyers. But worries abound under the surface. Salesforce.com reported income of $10.1 million, or 8 cents per share, on revenue of...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Recession, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
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