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Like I said, I have privacy on the brain this Friday afternoon. The latest developments in the Pennsylvania school webcam spying case are quite interesting. We noted earlier that the Federal... More >
InformationWeek reported Friday that Facebook has patented a method of "dynamically providing a news feed about users of a social network ." The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded U.S. Pate... More >
I've griped about Google a lot lately, but it seems Toyota is in even deeper trouble . U.S. legislators have launched an investigation into how early the automaker knew there was a problem before ... More >
Last week I wrote about a lawsuit brought by students who allege that school officials used the Web cameras on school-issued laptops to invade their privacy while they were in their homes. Wednesda... More >
Unless Congress acts swiftly, public companies with a market capitalization of less than $75 million will have to meet Sarbanes-Oxley 404(b) compliance requirements beginning June 15. And if what V... More >
I've written about Google's privacy principles and Facebook's privacy policy so much lately I'm sick of them. Microsoft's privacy policies, or rather, what the company is willing to hand over to ... More >
Not long ago, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued new rules requiring public companies to be more transparent regarding the structure of their boards of directors and the boards' responsi... More >
Wednesday we published an interview I did recently with Robert Houghton, the president of Ohio-based Redemtech , which specializes in change management and e-waste recycling. The company recently ... More >
To paraphrase my coworker who pointed me to the stories this morning, "It's not a good day to be Google." On the heels of user ire regarding privacy issues presented by Buzz, the company's n... More >
President Obama is trying to convince Congress to pass legislation that would end the insurance industry's exemption from federal antitrust laws , according to The New York Times . As much as I wri... More >
Last week, auditing heavyweight PricewaterhouseCoopers and federal financial management systems provider Global Computer Enterprises announced that they are joining forces to bring the federal govern... More >
The Federal Trade Commission announced this week it notified nearly 100 organizations that they had improperly released sensitive information via peer-to-peer (P2P) networks and that failure to mai... More >
Earlier this week I noted that HP's new TRIM 7 software should go a long way to make archiving and managing Web 2.0 content a little easier for those who use Microsoft's SharePoint. Thursday, I spo... More >
Friday in The Standards Blog , intellectual property attorney and open source software advocate Andrew Updegrove noted that Robert Jacobsen and Matthew Katzer have settled their dispute over model ... More >
What on earth were they thinking? The Huffington Post reported this week that a school district in Pennsylvania is being sued for violating the privacy of high school seniors and their families b... More >
I first learned of Redemtech last year when I did a series of posts on e-waste -- the regulations , the responsibility , the problem . The Columbus, Ohio-based company specializes in asset recov... More >
After months of scrutiny, it looks like the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal is finally going to get the thumbs-up from the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission. Reuters reports simpl... More >
I can't believe I'm writing about this again today, but there's more buzz on Google's Buzz. According to CNET News , Google now not only has to deal with a complaint before the Federal Trade Commi... More >
When President Obama was just the president-elect, the Secret Service and the National Security Agency were concerned that his use of a smartphone might pose undue security risks . White House staff... More >
I first heard of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, when the privacy group went on the record to complain about Facebook's changes to its privacy practices, and then again when the g... More >
When it comes to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, one of the key elements is segregation of duties . The goal is to make it a little harder for those who work with a company's money or books to commit fra... More >
This week, Hewlett-Packard is touting a new product it claims will allow compliance technology to catch up to social media. In a Venture Beat post in The New York Times , writer Paul Boutin says ... More >
Two federal agencies have again announced the availability of grant money to increase the use of health care technology and increase the number of health IT jobs available. A Reuters post at CNBC.co... More >
It's been just over a month since Haiti was rocked by a 7.0 earthquake on Jan. 12, and hundreds of thousands of people were killed. The quake leveled the capital city of Port au Prince, and with it... More >
Well, kudos to Google for at least trying. PCWorld.com reports the search giant has tweaked its Buzz social-networking service once again to address user privacy concerns. Instead of setting up u... More >
Google just can't catch a break lately. Its new social networking functionality, Google Buzz, is just a few weeks old and already critics are all over it. The biggest beef so far? You guessed it: pr... More >
It's the end of the week, and as has become our custom , I thought I'd point out an upcoming free Web cast that may be of value - especially since risk management has become such a high priority fo... More >
Last week, we learned that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement agencies want Internet service providers to keep logs of URLs visited by their customers for two years in an... More >
Whenever we talk about big data breaches, like the ones at TJX or Heartland in recent years, the question always comes up: Were there compliance problems? But if I've said it once, I've said it at ... More >
Earlier Thursday I wrote about Precursor consultant and GoogleMonitor.com publisher Scott Cleland and his concerns about Google's privacy principles. Turns out, though, that Cleland is concerne... More >
Remember all the fuss when it came to light that millions of Bush White House e-mails had been lost ? For four years, White House staffers apparently used Republican National Committee e-mail accoun... More >
As the economy continues to right itself, regulators and industry analysts alike have said that compliance is going to be an even bigger priority. Securities and Exchange Commission chair Mary Schapi... More >
Since Google released its privacy principles on Data Privacy Day last month, a debate of sorts has ensued regarding whether the company's efforts to increase transparency and choice for customers a... More >
At the SEC Speaks conference in Washington, D.C., recently, Securities and Exchange Commission chair Mary Schapiro told attendees to expect more enforcement cases in 2010, and more rule-making, too... More >
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski spoke out to set the record straight : The agency's national broadband plan and net neutr... More >
I guess the pressure from the Federal Communications Commission regarding early termination fees for smartphone contracts has finally paid off. TG Daily reports Google has "slashed" the fees on ... More >
As if we hadn't heard enough opinions already, a pretty big name in U.S. politics is weighing in on the net neutrality debate: President Obama. In a followup to his State of the Union addre... More >
The day before I wrote about Google's new privacy principles , GoogleMonitor.com publisher Scott Cleland wrote on the same topic, except his post was far more detailed and pointed. He raised sev... More >
The NSA is not the only government agency interested in what's happening on U.S. networks. CNET News reports that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is asking Internet service providers to log ... More >
The buzzworthy story of the week appears to be Google's decision to partner with the National Security Agency . The move comes after the search behemoth found itself the target of a "supersophistica... More >
Former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz said his farewell Wednesday in a haiku poem posted on Twitter. Since he made a name for himself as one of the first tech CEOs to blog regularly , it w... More >
Wednesday, I mentioned that I spoke with Vibato's Teresa Bockwoldt , who said that some would see the alleged $31 million embezzlement at headphone maker Koss as an example of why small businesses s... More >
We've covered the federal government's quest to manage cybersecurity risks for months, including the search for and appointment of the new cyber czar, the opening of the National Cybersecurity and C... More >
Ars Technica 's Nate Anderson reminded readers last week to beware watching Sunday's festivities on a screen larger than 55 inches in diameter -- if you're gathering with friends/coworkers in a publ... More >
We knew it was coming because the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority put together a task force to draft social media guidelines for broker-dealers some time ago. As of Wednesday, according to ... More >
Be careful of the apps you download for your iPhone, security expert Nicolas Seriot warns users. A flaw in the iPhone's design, along with rather lax App Store security, could make iPhone users vuln... More >
It's no big secret that the House of Representatives passed sweeping financial reform legislation last month, nor that the legislation includes a provision that would at least delay Sarbanes-Oxley ... More >
It's been nearly a year since the HITECH Act and its stimulus dollars for electronic medical records technology were introduced to the health care community. That's plenty of time for stakeholders ... More >
In addition to the trademark dispute regarding the name "iPad" and the legal questions the device itself raises, there's yet another problem with Apple's much awaited tablet: It wasn't approved ... More >
On Data Privacy Day last week, I took Google to task for its seemingly skimpy privacy principles . After pointing to Clint Boulton's eWEEK piece, I said: Those are nice generalizations, but if you... More >
How many legal questions does Apple's iPad raise? Anybody want to guess? We've touched on one concerning the name already: At this point, Apple doesn't own the rights to it. But that's just the tip... More >
Compliance Week 's Melissa Klein Aguilar wrote last week that the Clovis News Journal in Clovis, N.M., told subscribers it can no longer mail the paper on the day of publication. Because of Sarbanes... More >
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