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Communications Bill Clause Could Help Extend Broadband
News A new clause has been added to the Communications Bill, published last week, to allow third party civil infrastructure providers to build telecoms infrastructure such as ducts and masts. The BSG is not saying that third party civil infrastructure...
[November 25, 2002, 12:35]
Civil Servants 'lack Security Awareness'
News A senior member of the Cabinet Office's Central Sponsor for Information Assurance (CSIA), whose remit is partly to oversee the effective transmission of data threat information between public sector organisations, admitted that the problem did...
[February 1, 2007, 13:15]
ID Card Bill Could Reach £30bn
News Baroness Anelay of St Johns said the proposed legislation is too broad and raises concerns about civil liberties. The latest figures follow a warning from senior civil servant Ian The cost of an individual ID card could rise to almost £500 due to...
[November 1, 2005, 9:40]
Homeland Security Bill Becomes US Law
News The law also: requires all federal agencies, including the CIA, the Defense Department and the National Security Agency, to provide the new department with any "information concerning the vulnerability of the infrastructure of the United States...
[November 26, 2002, 11:41]
Q&A: Australia's 'Luddite' IT Minister
News Civil liberties advocates such as Electronic Frontiers Australia have particularly criticised a law designed to regulate Internet content, which led to the American Civil Liberties Union referring to Australia as a "global village idiot".
[November 29, 2002, 10:19]
US Considers Jailing Hackers For Life
News Citing privacy concerns, civil liberties groups have objected to portions of CSEA. There are a lot of different things to be concerned about, but preserving Fourth Amendment and wiretap standards continues to be a critical test of Congress...
[November 14, 2002, 15:16]
Hackers Face Life Sentence
News Citing privacy concerns, civil liberties groups have objected to portions of CSEA. Congress should stop chipping away at our civil liberties," said Brad Jansen, an analyst at the conservative group. Until we secure our cyber infrastructure, a few...
[July 16, 2002, 12:48]
Civil Liberties Groups Unite For RFID Protest
News Civil liberties groups from both sides of the Atlantic have joined forces to oppose the proposed introduction and cross-border sharing of biometrics and RFID in more than one billion passports worldwide.
[March 31, 2004, 11:15]
The Haskell Company Automates Human Resources, Saving Time And Money
White Papers The Haskell Company is America's leading integrated design-build firm practicing in the general building and civil infrastructure markets. The company wanted to allow for greater enterprise-wide visibility, automation, and management of Human...
[May 17, 2007, 0:00]
Email Compliance: Is Your Message Network At Risk?
White Papers If your message network does not meet regulatory compliance, your business could be in danger of criminal and civil penalties, bad publicity, and lost business. You need a secure messaging infrastructure that properly handles messages to meet the...
[October 13, 2005, 0:00]
Avaya Case Study: T.Y. Lin International
White Papers Lin International (TYLI) is an internationally recognized civil and structural engineering firm specializing in the planning, design, and construction engineering and inspection for transportation infrastructure.
[May 8, 2007, 0:00]
The Rest Of The Text In The Previous Talkback
Talkback If industry (and not just Microsoft) wishes to preserve its freedom to act, and indeed if the formal global standards infrastructure itself wishes to retain a role in the process of creating Civil ICT Standards at all, then each would be wise to...
[February 27, 2008, 8:20]
Defense Manufacturer Supports New Project-Based Business Model With SAP Software
White Papers And when the military and civil electronics company decided to embark on a challenging SAP software implementation, its approach was no different. With its business model shifting from a production focus to project management - based operations...
[February 19, 2008, 23:00]
InterPARES 2 Case Study Proposal: Computerization Of Alsace-Moselle's Land Registry
White Papers This case study will thus investigate the long-term preservation of digital signatures within a dynamic information system designed to improve the efficiency of government-citizen relations, in the context of the French civil law evidence system.
[April 19, 2005, 0:00]
Civil Liberties Group Opposes Clinton's Spy Plans
News With most wiretaps authorised by U.S.judges over the past decade targeted at individual offenders such as gamblers and drug runners, rather than big-time terrorists, proposed new wiretap powers in the US, will only give the Clinton administration...
[March 24, 1998, 10:14]
North Rhine-Westphalia: Landesamt Fur Datenverarbeitung Und Statistik Ensures IT-Service Quality
White Papers As the central IT Service Provider for the civil service in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state, the Landesamt fur Datenverarbeitung und Statistik (LDS - State Data Processing and Statistical Office) continues to scale up the...
[March 14, 2006, 23:00]
Government Warned Of Hacking Danger
News The letter, addressed to Cabinet Office Minister Ian McCartney, was copied to Tony Blair and Head of the Civil Service Richard Wilson. The Prime Minister has been warned that placing more of the government's infrastructure online will leave it...
[April 7, 2000, 16:31]
'DMCA On Steroids' Heads For Euro Parliament
News Civil liberties group the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure said the law, in its current form, would hand too much power to large rights holders and create a hostile environment for smaller companies.
[February 19, 2004, 20:39]
Bandwidth Talk Turns Off Broadband Late Adopters
News Up to 70 percent of the cost of rolling out broadband is the civil infrastructure -- such as digging trenches, building ducts and poles. To address the coverage issue, the BSG wants regional authorities to coordinate the rollout of broadband...
[November 20, 2002, 16:21]
Curbs On Galileo Keep Planes Safe
News A private-public infrastructure project, the consortium behind Galileo will offer commercial and civil users service guarantees for a fee. Unlike the existing GPS, which was set-up and maintained by US military authorities before being handed over...
[August 5, 2003, 11:20]
