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Companies facing criminal prosecution could get lesser penalties if they have established compliance programs to address white-collar crime within their ranks, The Wall Street Journal reports. &n... More >
One last thing on Internet privacy for this Friday afternoon: InfoWorld reports the Electronic Frontier Foundation has unveiled a new tool designed to uncover the digital fingerprints browsers ... More >
It's fitting that the second roundtable discussion of online privacy issues hosted by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission occurred on Data Privacy Day , I think. Just as EU representatives did in ... More >
As part of the European Union's observation of Data Protection/Privacy Day , EU Commissioner Viviane Reding sad she planned to revamp the union's 1995 data protection directive so that it could cat... More >
Since at least 2006, European banks have been providing the United States with financial information via the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) as part of the Bush Ad... More >
I don't know for certain, but I think if I were the organizers and/or sponsors of Data Privacy Day , I would take offense at the privacy principles Google released on Thursday. Well, maybe not at th... More >
With all the hoopla about the iPad tablet Apple introduced Wednesday, and then all the fuss about the functionality it's missing , it seems one detail slipped through the cracks: The name "iPad" i... More >
I'm not sure if Startpage intentionally chose Thursday to launch its anonymous Web search service because it was Data Privacy Day , or if that was just happenstance. Nonetheless, the privately held ... More >
Did you know today is Data Privacy Day ? Until a coworker pointed it out, I didn't either. Now in its third year, Data Privacy Day is recognized by the U.S., Canada, and 27 European countries in a... More >
Facebook is in trouble with Canadian privacy officials -- again. Reuters reports the office of Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart will be investigating Facebook's privacy practices in r... More >
Well, we'd heard that Sen. Scott Brown's (R-Mass.) win over Martha Coakley to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by Sen. Edward Kennedy's passing would likely throw a wrench in plans to pass hea... More >
When Verizon Wireless doubled its early termination fees on accounts with smartphones recently, the Federal Communications Commission asked the company to explain itself. Verizon said the high fee ... More >
General counsel and risk professionals have beefing up their WAN optimization capabilities in 2010, according to Forrester. New disclosure requirements regarding board structure and risk oversight ... More >
I first talked to Future of Privacy Forum's Christopher Wolf in October after the group formalized its partnership with George Washington University Law School to address privacy policy issues that... More >
Tuesday I wrote about the British Ministry of Defense disciplining 10 of its employees in the past year and a half for misusing Facebook and Twitter . According to the ministry's own information, re... More >
British Ministry of Defense staff and military personnel have leaked sensitive information on social-networking and other Web sites in the past 18 months, according to SC Magazine . Ten people hav... More >
Online privacy is a huge hot button today, for consumers and Internet service providers alike. Facebook's privacy policies have been under the microscope for some time. When it comes to health info... More >
For months now those of us in the tech blogosphere have batted around ideas about how to formulate social media guidelines for the workplace. I've done two or three interviews and who knows how man... More >
Last week in Mashable , I saw a story about a man who was rescued from the rubble of the Hotel Montana after the earthquake in Haiti . It focused on how the survivor used a first-aid application on... More >
In a recent newsletter, global business consulting and internal audit firm Protiviti points to five lessons learned from the economic crisis and 10 challenges financial services companies will face ... More >
A recent survey from Clearwell Systems and Enterprise Strategy Group reveals that a significant majority of companies are contemplating bringing e-discovery in house this year in an effort to d... More >
When Oracle announced last April that it would acquire Sun Microsystems, U.S. regulators dug a little deeper into the details, but in the end gave the deal a thumbs-up . The combination of Oracl... More >
Earlier this week, Manchester United became the latest sports club to forbid its players to use social-networking sites. Telegraph.co.uk reports the organization issued a statement after commandeer... More >
Tuesday I wrote this post about Microsoft's decision to "avert" future EU regulation of search data retention by voluntarily agreeing to eliminate user data after six months. I noted that Google ... More >
There are two different webcasts taking place Thursday afternoon that could be of interest to all of you who work in the governance, risk and compliance arena, and I thought I'd give a quick heads up... More >
Cloud computing raises compliance and security questions for any company -- public, private, large, small, or anywhere in between. These questions include "Where does my data reside for purposes of... More >
One of the biggest arguments opponents of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act have made over the years is that compliance with the act is too expensive . Another is that many companies would rather go private ... More >
When the Securities and Exchange Commission first introduced the idea of public companies providing their financial data in interactive form , the point was to make the data more accessible for inve... More >
Last Friday, Mac clone maker Psystar appealed the injunction entered by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California that prevents it from "copying, selling, distributing or crea... More >
Privacy advocates and regulators alike have criticized Google, Microsoft and Yahoo in the past regarding their data-retention policies. Experts debated whether " anonymizing " user search data is e... More >
If you were wondering, net neutrality has not fallen off my radar. In fact, the deadline for filing public comments to the Federal Communications Commission's proposed rules came at midnight Thursday... More >
Every time I turn around someone is suing Apple for something. For the longest time it was the infamous Mac Clone maker Psystar , which sued the Cupertino, Calif., company for abusing its copyrights... More >
Risk professionals are in demand this year according to Forrester . The research firm says: Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) professionals saw their influence increase substantially in the pa... More >
Last week, I wrote about a closely-held company, Cybersitter, suing the Chinese government for software piracy. This week, the law firm representing Cybersitter has apparently been targeted by ha... More >
Last week, Heartland Payment Systems announced it had reached a settlement with Visa to benefit card issuers affected by the 2008 data breach. The payment processor will pay up to $60 million to f... More >
Ars Technica reported Monday Microsoft has yanked nearly all versions of Word (and versions of Office containing Word) from its own online store. Writer Emil Protalinksi notes: On the Microsoft St... More >
Last week, I wrote about a small private company taking on the Chinese government in a software piracy case. Late last year, Plurk caught Microsoft China lifting code from its microblogging site,... More >
Facebook threw privacy advocates into a flurry of activity last month when it drastically changed the privacy practices and policies implemented on the social networking juggernaut. Some issued res... More >
For awhile there in 2006 and 2007, it seemed like I wrote about stock option backdating charges or settlements or investigations at least once a week, if not every other day. The posts usually read ... More >
Last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted new rules requiring public companies to disclose information about their board leadership structure, their risk oversight processes and ce... More >
Remember when the Federal Communications Commission first released its proposed net neutrality rules and critics were questioning whether the agency even had the authority to enforce them? Rememb... More >
'Tis the season for intellectual property infringement litigation -- or so it seems. I know I've written and read about several in the last few months. There's the Apple, Nokia patent dispute , or t... More >
Along with health information technology initiatives and banking bailout plans, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act also called for a national broadband strategy . The Federal Communicatio... More >
Well, if this doesn't prove my point... No sooner had I written about the HITECH Act's popularity among readers in 2009 and said that it would continue to be a hot topic this year than I found... More >
Monday I noted that posts about online privacy were among my most read of 2009. Posts about the HITECH Act and electronic health records were also at the top of the list. Interestingly, ... More >
To ring in 2010, fellow IT Business Edge blogger Ann All wrote about her most-read posts of 2009 , based on Google Analytics statistics. I, too, checked out the Google stats as we were closing out t... More >
The Kindle e-book reader was Amazon.com's top-selling product this year, according to Northwest Innovation . The e-commerce jugggernaut also claims the e-reader is "the most gifted item" in the co... More >
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