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US Government Web Tracking Under Scrutiny
News Dozens of federal agencies are tracking visits to US government Web sites in violation of long-standing rules designed to protect online privacy, an investigation by ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com has shown.
[January 5, 2006, 14:05]
US Government To Allow Mass Email Spam
News Uncle Sam could become "Uncle Spam" if the government follows through with plans for creating an "official US email box" for every address in America, say industry executives briefed on the proposal. The government would use the email addresses to...
[August 2, 2000, 10:06]
US Government 'lobbied EC' Over Microsoft Fine
Talkback If Microsoft break EU law, the US government have no business trying to interfere with the legal process. Even the US courts found Microsoft guilty of breaking the law, but when it came to punishment they mysteriously backed down.
[September 27, 2006, 14:57]
US Government 'lobbied EC' Over Microsoft Fine
Talkback The real question seems to be not *whether*, but *why* the US government would get involved. Is it appropriate for the government of an ostensibly capitalist nation to step in on behalf of a corporation which is clearly not struggling?
[September 28, 2006, 15:54]
US Government Censors Wikipedia?
Blog The US Government has been accused of meddling with Wikipedia entries. According to an article in
[December 13, 2007, 14:21]
US Government Loses Crypto Ruling
News The FBI and NSA have successfully blocked most commercial encryption exports from the US, and Government officials argue foreign terrorists and criminals will soon be immune from surveillance if exports of the most powerful cryptography become...
[May 7, 1999, 14:34]
US Government 'lobbied EC' Over Microsoft Fine
News The US Government sought to influence the European Commission over Microsoft's antitrust case, according to competition commissioner Neelie Kroes. Microsoft declined to comment on Kroes's claims, but an insider insisted that the company had not...
[September 26, 2006, 13:30]
US Government Renews Domain-name Contract
News The US Government this week renewed its contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), effectively extending its grip on the administrative body that co-ordinates Net addressing until to 2011.
[August 17, 2006, 10:25]
US Government Failing On Cybersecurity
News US House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform for three straight years — in other words, every year of its young existence. Despite all the rhetoric from government officials about preparedness and defence against those who would harm...
[March 17, 2006, 9:40]
US E-government Wins Higher Ratings
News US federal agencies are beginning to make progress on e-government, says an official management report The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has signalled that US federal departments are finally making progress on e-government...
[July 15, 2004, 13:20]
US Government Awards Lucent $75m Iraq Contract
News The US Department of Defense has awarded Lucent Technologies a $75m contract to repair or upgrade communications networks used by Iraqi private businesses and the nation's interim government agencies, Lucent said on Thursday.
[March 26, 2004, 12:00]
US Government Wants Firms' Security Secrets
News The US Department of Homeland Security is hoping to convince technology and telecommunications firms that it's safe to share information about infrastructure vulnerabilities with the federal government.
[April 17, 2003, 7:58]
US Government To Boost IT Spending
News US government IT spending is projected to top $63bn in 2007, providing at least some measure of hope for struggling technology companies, according to a report released by Input, a marketing company specialising in technology and government.
[May 16, 2002, 7:31]
US Government Wants A Few Good Hackers
News We're from the government and we want you to help us. That was the message that from a seven-member "Meet the Fed" panel, where government officials answered the questions of a roomful of hackers at the Def Con conference in Las Vegas on Saturday.
[July 16, 2001, 15:47]
US Government 'lobbied EC' Over Microsoft Fine
Talkback I'm sorry, but more information - no matter if it's from another government - is good information. Finally, US tax dollars going to good effect. I think the EC should be more open to this type of input.
[September 26, 2006, 16:24]
US Government To Fund Open Source Bug Hunt
News In the effort, which the government agency calls the "Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation, Open Source Hardening Project", Stanford and Coverity will build and maintain a system that does daily scans of code contributed to popular open source...
[January 11, 2006, 9:05]
US Government Warns Of Apple Flaw
News The US Government has added its weight to warnings about a vulnerability in Apple's Mac OS X. The US computer emergency response team, US-CERT, issued an alert on Thursday, reporting a failure in the way OS X handles corrupted disk image files for...
[November 24, 2006, 16:01]
US Government 'lobbied EC' Over Microsoft Fine
Talkback Iraq broke international laws for years and the EU let them get by with it and stabbed the American government in the back. The US is at war now because of it and yet the EU criticises us for it. Give me a break.
[September 29, 2006, 14:44]
US Government Ignoring RFID Risks
News RFID is becoming increasingly popular inside the US government, but agencies have not seriously considered the privacy risks, federal auditors said. In a report published Friday, the Government Accountability Office said that 13 of the largest...
[May 31, 2005, 9:45]
US Government Unveils Cybersecurity Plan
News The government cannot alone secure cyberspace," he said at the event. Speaking to a crowd made up of information technology chief executives, the media and representatives of the nation's "critical infrastructure" assets, Richard Clarke, the...
[September 20, 2002, 7:40]
