Previous
Ban Looms For Online Racist Material
News Current UK legislation -- the Public Order Act 1986 -- already makes it an offence to incite racial hatred, but there have been no successful prosecutions for racist material appearing on the Net in this country.
[February 21, 2002, 10:16]
RIPA Demands Push Up ISP Costs
News This 'fleshes out' provisions under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 ('RIPA') which give the Home Secretary power to order a provider of public telecoms services to maintain a "reasonable" level of intercept capacity to enable...
[July 9, 2002, 15:41]
Council Of Europe Presses For 'hate Speech' Internet Ban
News The publication of material likely to incite racial hatred is already illegal in the UK under the Public Order Act 1986, but there is nothing that can be done under UK law if the company's servers are located in the US.
[November 12, 2001, 13:09]
Microsoft Moves To Close Depositions
News In August 1998, the court granted a motion that declared that the depositions had to be open to the public under the act. Microsoft's argument to close future depositions is grounded in the procedural history of the case and the court's...
[January 10, 2002, 9:24]
US Report: Judge Denies Microsoft Request For Private Depositions
News Though Microsoft attorney John Warden conceded that the 1913 Publicity in Taking of Evidence Act was designed to compel open testimony in federal suits filed under the Sherman Antitrust Act, the act was meant to apply only to those depositions...
[August 13, 1998, 10:03]
Labels Battle To Hold Onto DMCA Win
News The lawsuit, filed last August, pits the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) against Internet users' right to remain anonymous online. Under Verizon's reading of the act, a significant amount of potential copyright infringement would be...
[February 10, 2003, 9:05]
Tufin SecureTrack And Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
White Papers The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 2002 in order to provide greater accountability in Public Companies. In the wake of these debacles, US Senators Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley architected the SOX legislation in...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Standardized Component-Based Medicaid Management Information System
White Papers The federally mandated regulations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) will require public and private sectors to change processes and information systems resulting in significant costs in order to achieve compliance...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
The National Archives Meets Customer Targets Set In Freedom Of Information Act
White Papers In order to comply with the Act, The National Archives required a system that would provide access to both its corporate records and archives (records transferred from the government departments). The Freedom of Information Act, which came fully...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
How To Simplify Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Through Enterprise Change Management
White Papers The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is expected to have extensive consequences for many public companies and some private companies who anticipate going public, through the institution of stricter financial controls and reporting requirements.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Solutions For A Digital Government
White Papers Government's Paperwork Elimination Act, and a post-9/11 environment that demands that agencies at all levels act in a highly coordinated fashion to protect the public from terrorist threats. Government agencies are increasingly charged with...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Homeland Security Watch
White Papers Beyond the duct tape fiasco, there were more substantial developments recently concerning homeland security, such as the release of the president's 2004 budget, the leaked release of the "Son of the Patriot Act," and the rounding out of the...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Recommendations For The Effective Management Of Government Information On The Internet And Other Electronic Records
White Papers Section 207 of the E-Government Act of 2002 mandates that the Interagency Committee on Government Information (ICGI) recommend policies to ensure effective management of Government information on the Internet and other electronic records to the...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
With SAS, Texas Educators Generate Reports Anytime, Anywhere
White Papers The agency collects data from all those sources and must generate reports ranging from graduation and dropout rates to SAT and ACT participation. Keeping up with 1,040 school districts and more than 7,000 schools, 250,000 educators and 4 million...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Microsoft On Trial: Judge Releases Testimony To Public
News Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson wrote the order to comply with provisions of the Publicity in Taking of Evidence Act of 1913, which requires that depositions taken in Sherman Antitrust Act cases be open to the public.
[April 9, 1999, 15:15]
Carnivore Cleared By Department Of Justice
News Information referring to a prior system dating back to early 1996 has remained classified but hinted at in documents released under the Freedom of Information Act. That lack of accountability means that FBI agents could pry into the communications...
[November 22, 2000, 16:12]
Privacy Watchdog Fears Government Super-database
News The key area of policy which seeks to guarantee the privacy rights of the UK public is the Data Protection Act. The Data Protection Act prevents public bodies from sharing data about individuals, unless those officials have a clear "need to know".
[January 15, 2007, 16:15]
Blind Man Faces Prosecution For Listening To Child Porn
News The Protection of Children Act 1978 initially made it illegal to produce photos of children being sexually abused, whilst the Criminal Justice and Public Order Amendments in 1994 expanded this definition to deal with pseudo images of child...
[June 25, 2001, 18:24]
Privacy Comes Under Attack
News This Act allows access to traffic data for broader reasons than national security, including public order, minor crime, health and safety and tax. But contained within the Act is a provision for cases of national security, where personal data may...
[March 30, 2002, 6:31]
Supreme Court Nixes Copyright Challenge
News In a narrow sense, the outcome of this challenge to the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) determines when some works will become part of the public domain. Another target is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), also enacted in 1998, which...
[January 16, 2003, 9:09]
