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US approves new Internet laws to protect children
News Under the rules -- which are mandated by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA, signed into law last year -- sites will have to get parental permission via mail, fax, credit card, or digital signature before disclosing a child's...
[October 21, 1999, 10:26]
Background Check Regs
Downloads Some of the other Federal documents are:Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967American With Disabilities Act of 1990 Title I and VChecklist: Sweep Your Web TrailCivil Rights Act of 1991Civil Rights Act of 1964 Title VIIEmployee Polygraph...
[December 19, 2009, 19:21]
BBC slipped up over outsourcing savings
Talkback Seems to me BECTU could've taken a more direct approach to protecting the interests of its members in this case than quibbling over the exact amount of cost savings: IANAL but I'd guess the 1807 Anti-Slave Trade Act, the 1833 Slavery Abolition...
[July 12, 2006, 13:53]
Employee surveillance unaffected by terror threat
News Under the USA Patriot Act, signed by President Bush a year ago, law enforcement received more power to conduct Internet surveillance and seek information from private companies. Under current law in general and the Electronic Communications Privacy...
[October 29, 2002, 14:25]
Police drop investigation into BT's Phorm trials
News Hanff asserted that, in conducting the trials, BT had broken a number of data-protection and privacy laws, including the Regulatory of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) and the Data Protection Act, as customer consent had not been gained.
[September 23, 2008, 14:06]
Laws protecting consumers online need revision
News According to the 1998 Data Protection Act, Powergen's customers are not entitled to any financial compensation except anybody who suffers credit card fraud or other damages. Customers who suffer distress following a breach in the act will only...
[July 20, 2000, 14:56]
Architect of CAD scam faces jail
News He pleaded guilty on Friday to charges under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and the Trade Marks Act 1994, and will be sentenced on 1 February. A Derby man is facing up to 10 years in jail after pleading guilty to illegally selling...
[January 15, 2008, 15:21]
UK government rejects key-escrow resurrection
News Privacy experts had speculated that the British government would follow the lead of the US Congress, and review its stance on encryption as contained in Part III of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA).
[September 20, 2001, 12:55]
Digital duties, not rights, should shape our world
Leader Section 76 of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008, which came into effect in February, makes it an offence punishable by up to 10 years in prison to collect or distribute information about a police officer in a way that might help terrorists, often...
[April 9, 2009, 18:37]
ob5500.zip
Downloads Click on the following links for the driver package readme info:.SOUND/Readme.txt .HPCDVSD/Readme.txt .VIDEO/Readme.txt .SCSI/Readme.txt .SOUND/Readme.txt .SCSI/Readme.txt .IRDA/Readme.txt This package supports the following driver models:Chips...
[January 11, 1996, 7:00]
UK government scoops 'Internet Villain' nominations
News The Home Office has come under massive criticism over the past years for several laws that have been introduced under Labour, most notably its draconian Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA). This Act, introduced under the auspices of Jack...
[January 17, 2002, 16:58]
Cypherpunks publish proof of Tempest
News Cypherpunks claims to have obtained information concerning Tempest from the US National Security Agency (NSA) through the freedom of information act and have published the information online . This page also contains correspondences between...
[October 26, 1999, 15:11]
Tech industry quiet over Netscape lawsuit
News The suit, filed in US District Court for the District of Columbia, seeks triple damages based on the Clayton Act and the District of Columbia Code, as well as interest and attorneys' fees. In November, Microsoft, nine states and the Department of...
[January 23, 2002, 13:41]
Porn spammers ignore new labelling rule
News The Can-Spam Act that President Bush signed in December required the Federal Trade Commission to come up with a label for unsolicited pornographic email. When politicians in Congress touted the Can-Spam Act last year, they predicted it would help...
[May 27, 2004, 11:30]
Compliance demands drive security spending
News The top reason for the increase in funding security programs was to satisfy legislation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which holds executives accountable for their company's disclosures. Legislation that's been passed in the last two years...
[September 30, 2003, 11:45]
BCS to offer compliance training
News It said there are worries that necessary IT will not be in place before the act's new year deadline and that the time limit for FoI responses is too short. The public sector has had four years to ensure compliance of the act and to ensure adequate...
[December 6, 2004, 13:00]
No room for cybersquatters
News Anti cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, which was signed into law on Nov.amid protests from free-speech activists who fear the law will stifle legitimate forms of protest and parody on the Internet.
[March 27, 2000, 12:13]
ListGrabber Significantly Increases Both Sales Activity and Business From New Sales for Printing Resources, by Influencing Their Day to Day Prospecting Activities
White Papers When they came across ListGrabber in the ACT! Add-ons Store, they found out that it could not only build lead lists but also enter the relevant data accurately into ACT! After working through their existing database of local businesses, Printing...
[March 24, 2009, 0:20]
Privacy concerns over Google Desktop 3
News But the EFF claimed this feature "greatly increases the risk to consumer privacy" due to US legislation — the Electronic Communication Privacy Act — which means files that are stored with online service providers enjoy less privacy protection than...
[February 10, 2006, 17:15]
Increasing Business Agility Through IT Platforming: An Overview of Virtusa's Productization Methodology
White Papers These challenges often conflict with each other, and a CIO must perform a high-wire act to balance the business need for innovation against the technology management need for standardization. Virtusa's Productization methodology allows a CIO to...
[July 6, 2007, 1:00]
