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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]
Broadband group outlines fibre rollout costs
News This does not mean that FTTH should be ruled out, but it is likely that FTTH deployments will be more localised, in new-build locations and other areas where it is possible to significantly reduce the civil-infrastructure costs involved," Meek...
[September 8, 2008, 17:27]
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]
Digital Britain calls for 50p broadband levy
News In criminal terms it is theft, and in civil terms, it is just wrong. Repeat infringers will then face having their identities released by their ISPs to the content owner, who should then be able to launch a civil court action.
[June 16, 2009, 18:02]
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, 1:00]
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, 7:51]
T.Y. Lin International Upgrades E-mail Applications and Improves Business Efficiency
White Papers Lin International is an internationally recognized civil and structural engineering firm specializing in the planning, design, construction engineering, and inspection of transportation infrastructure.
[July 11, 2007, 1:00]
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, 1:00]
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 26, 2008, 21:28]
Outsourcing Helps NDA Minimise Costs
White Papers The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is responsible for the safe clean-up and decommissioning of the UK's civil nuclear facilities, which are spread across more than 20 locations. The authority was determined to deploy an infrastructure that...
[August 10, 2006, 0:00]
Mobile Biometric Identification
White Papers Adding a wireless dimension to Biometric Identification Systems (BIS) provides a more efficient and reliable method of identity management across criminal justice and civil markets. Organizations must consider back-end infrastructure, secure...
[August 15, 2009, 1:20]
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 20, 2008, 0:02]
Portuguese Ministry Migrates Security Communications to Single Infrastructure
White Papers The Portuguese Ministry of Homeland Security is responsible for civil protection and border control, two branches of the police, fire, and rescue services, and road safety. In 2005, the ministry decided to rationalise the investments by enlisting...
[September 5, 2007, 1:00]
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...
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