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Liability and privacy: Key to Web 2.0 services
News Former Australian privacy commissioner Malcolm Crompton says governments are not doing enough to attract citizens to use their online services due to an overly risk-averse and closed-minded approach to liability and privacy.
[May 22, 2008, 12:03]
Directors and Officers Liability for the Public Company: Managing and Minimizing the Risks
White Papers For more and more enterprises that are navigating the complexities of being a publicly-traded company, it's not a question of if it makes sense to take on Directors and officers Liability insurance (D&O), but exactly how to do so.
[May 16, 2009, 1:17]
Real-Time Patient Liability Calculations Deliver Cost-Savings
White Papers The company wanted to implement a technology solution that delivers to members and providers accurate real-time calculation of patient financial liability and claims adjudication at the point of service, in order to promote consumer-directed...
[April 23, 2009, 1:24]
Linux guru argues against security liability
News Potentially there's no way to enforce liability," he said. The question of open-source liability becomes more complex because of how the code is used, added Cox. Cox said that there was a question of how liability would move from the initial...
[January 18, 2007, 13:02]
Microsoft tweaks IE to duck Eolas liability
News Microsoft is changing the way its web browser handles certain controls in an effort to shield itself from liability in an ongoing patent spat with a start-up backed by the University of California. We believe this change insulates us from any...
[December 5, 2005, 9:00]
E-Commerce law raises liability concerns for ISPs
News Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are concerned that the government's public consultation document on the Electronic Commerce Directive lacks clarity in exempting them from third party liability. The paper states that ISPs will not be exempt from...
[August 20, 2001, 15:40]
How to avoid liability for a data breach ......
Talkback Be a Government Department! Or deny responsibility! Or both!
[April 4, 2008, 20:39]
RSA: Vendor liability may stifle innovation
News Art Coviello, RSA's president, warns of the consequences of making vendors liable for the security of their products, calling instead for self regulation, and discusses whether encryption is always right for businesses, as well as the need for a...
[October 30, 2007, 15:40]
Computer Hacking and Liability Issues: When Does Liability Attach?
White Papers Both federal and state statutes impose criminal liability on hackers for computer crimes, as well as provide civil liability for violations of the statue. This paper reviews the legal theories under which a computer hacker could be found liable...
[February 16, 2005, 2:00]
Court to decide Kazaa's US liability
News A Los Angeles federal judge will hear arguments Monday as to whether record companies and movie studios can sue the parent company of Kazaa, the most popular online file-swapping service, in the United States.
[November 25, 2002, 8:29]
Data Security Is Less Expensive Than Your Next Liability Lawsuit: Best Practices in Application Data Security
White Papers Security threats, government regulations, and the possibility of fines levied by government agencies, have led organizations to implement proper measures to secure applications and databases within a production environment.
[September 7, 2006, 3:18]
How VPN Access May Become a Liability
White Papers As necessary as VPN access to corporate resources can be, there are some important security aspects that need to be addressed prior to implementation. Just because a user can not login without the correct password does not ensure that the VPN...
[November 16, 2006, 0:00]
Cyber Liability & Higher Education Aon Professional Risk Solutions
White Papers Due to the nature and complexity of operations and the academic culture of open access, educational institutions, and in particular, large research-oriented universities, face unique exposures related to the internet and information security and...
[October 6, 2009, 0:00]
Issues like this
Talkback will happen over and over again until immediate realistic liability by law is introduced and enforced throughout the entire chain involved. The real issue is that IT holds a very unique liability position in today's world.
[May 12, 2007, 23:08]
NASA hacker is no Neo
Talkback Lack of liability is the cause here. However, in that whole chain of events and people of various companies involved there's no real liability in play. By people that in general have no clue as to what impact there little IT project will have on...
[June 22, 2005, 22:00]
Teenage kicks bear no comparison to gangster hits
Talkback It may sound frustrating, but the fact is that criminal liability, including liability for cyber crimes, can be fixed only if there is a culpable intention behind the same. In any case, the decision of the learned Judge is as per the requirements...
[July 12, 2005, 18:34]
Should IT security be separate from IT?
Talkback Liability and purchases are two things underestimated. With increased and realistic liability enforced those that call the shots either won't make the same mistake twice or won't be around to do the same thing wrong three times in a row.
[May 12, 2006, 20:52]
Legal technicality puts Linux programmers at risk
News A technicality in the installation process of package managers in several Linux distributions has highlighted a legal problem that could nullify liability disclaimers with some Linux software, according to Australian software house Bowerbird...
[November 11, 1999, 11:05]
Vendors, not developers, to blame for poor code
Talkback Indeed, liability should be introduced at the level where the most positive difference can be made. Since the brass usually doesn't take orders from lower staffed personal, like developers, it's clear where responsibility (e.g.liability) should be...
[October 20, 2005, 22:43]
Interpol: Give us the tools to fight cybercrime
Talkback The only thing really needed, from a legal standpoint, is increased and realistic liability across the entire chain up to and most certainly including the vendors involved. Well, it took the leaking of some internal documents, public outrage and...
[March 21, 2006, 23:29]
