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In an effort to retain its Internet content provider's license in China, Google this week dusted off Google.cn and stopped automatically redirecting users from mainland China to the Google.hk site, w... More >
Many times, data breaches result from a security flaw in a network that allows a hacker easy access to company or customer information. Or they result from careless employee activity - like leaving... More >
When lawmakers began working on a final version of the financial regulatory reform bill , Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., and other conference committee leaders indicated they wanted to have a bill pass... More >
Barely three months after effectively pulling the plug on Google.cn by committing to stop censoring search results as required by Chinese law, Google is rethinking its position. Instead of automati... More >
On the last day of its session and the last day before Justice John Paul Stevens retires, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down several significant decisions. According to The Wall Street Journ... More >
In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, as it was originally structured, did not have enough accountability. Previously, the Securities and Ex... More >
Last week, the House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Liberties was contemplating updates to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. At the same time, the co-chairs of t... More >
As much as accelerated filers griped about the burden of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance in the initial years, a new study from business consulting and internal audit firm Protiviti revealed that their... More >
Since amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in 2006 brought discovery of electronically stored information to the forefront for many legal and IT departments, experts have said the best ... More >
Continuing in the privacy vein, Twitter has settled with the Federal Trade Commission regarding privacy charges brought after hackers accessed the San Francisco microblogging service and were able ... More >
Just as Congress is looking more closely at how Google collected data from unsecured wireless networks and what the company did with that data, the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the C... More >
After years of legal wrangling over copyright law and the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Google has won its battle with Viacom. BBC News reported Wednesday that a... More >
Most of the time I think officials at Apple just want to see how far they can push the envelope before someone calls them on it. Granted, the same is true for those who lead other companies, too. Fac... More >
Vision Critical's Matt Kleinschmit raised the issue of trustworthiness not long ago in discussing the "Quit Facebook" campaign, and it came up again when he told me how advertisers need to approac... More >
As if probes into its Wi-Fi data collection practices from several different countries isn't enough, Google now has a coalition of 30 U.S. states breathing down its neck. The Wall Street Jo... More >
When I talked to Vision Critical SVP Matt Kleinschmit about the Quit Facebook campaign that grew out of the social-networking site's many privacy gaffes of late, he also talked about social net... More >
In addition to contemplating the future of Sarbanes-Oxley and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the U.S. Supreme Court also recently decided that an employer did not violate its emp... More >
Long ago and far away (read: four years ago in a building roughly 12 miles from here), I wrote about the Free Enterprise Fund and the Nevada accounting firm of Beckstead Watts filing a lawsuit again... More >
As financial regulatory reform takes its final shape in a conference committee led by Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., and Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., members of the committee have voted to allow th... More >
For years now, experts and observers have claimed the U.S. patent system is broken. They all have different ideas about why and how to fix it. Congress floats some kind of reform legislation ever... More >
As legislators from the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate meet in conference committee to consider the final provisions of the financial regulatory reform bill, the Center for Audit Quality... More >
In recent weeks I've talked with several different experts about the risks companies must consider when deciding how and when to jump into social media as part of a corporate strategy, whether its fo... More >
For several years now, the data-retention and records management experts have said it's unrealistic to think a business can afford to keep every electronic document it has forever. Especially since t... More >
Soon after the Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed it has launched an investigation into the security flaw in AT&T's system that allowed more than 100,000 iPad device identification numbe... More >
I'm almost afraid to write this because I've written it a few times before and been wrong, but I think I'll take my chances. Last week might have marked the very end of the road for SCO in its nea... More >
As much as Google tries to convince lawmakers and regulators that its inadvertent collection of data from unprotected wireless networks when gathering information for Street View was lawful, I don'... More >
A couple of months ago after pictures of the iPhone 4 prototype showed up in Gizmodo , parent company Gawker Media found itself arguing that the search warrant executed by the San Mateo County, Cali... More >
Continuing with the health care theme, next week has been designated National Health IT Week. According to HealthITWeek.org, it's an opportunity for stakeholders in the industry to "examine ... More >
Now that health care reform is the law, health care organizations are scrambling to determine what they need to do to meet requirements, how long they have to do it, and how much it will cost. But Gl... More >
After Google agreed to turn over to regulators the data its Street View cars inadvertently collected from unsecured Wi-Fi networks in several countries, the company also committed to an outside a... More >
Days after Apple surpassed Microsoft as the world's most valuable technology company, and weeks after rumors began to fly that federal antitrust investigators were digging deeper into the Cuperti... More >
At the end of last month when the fuss about the latest Facebook privacy changes was at its height, Vision Critical watched QuitFacebookDay.com closely. Just before May 31, the day organ... More >
AT&T, Cisco Systems, DISH Network, Google, Microsoft, Intel, EchoStar and Time Warner Cable are among those joining forces to create the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (TAG), PCWo... More >
Much like it did when the company was making the decision to shut down google.cn so as not to be part of China's Internet censorship and the resulting human rights violations, Google is asking the ... More >
We know China blocks many Google services . In fact, the communist government reminded us why it does so just this week. No surprises there. But what if I told you that some schools in the U.S. ma... More >
We haven't heard much out of China since the hubbub surrounding Google's decision to leave the country died down, but this week the communist government released a white paper explaining why it... More >
As President Obama's 2015 deadline for everyone in the country to use electronic health records moves closer, doctors, hospitals and other organizations say the "meaningful use" requirements that... More >
Just as observers expected after the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted summary judgment to the Recording Industry Association of America and found LimeWire liable ... More >
The House of Representatives passed its version of a financial regulatory reform bill in December. The Senate passed its bill at the end of May. This week, negotiators from both chambers begin ha... More >
While the Federal Trade Commission was announcing the latest delay in Red Flag Rules enforcement, the chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board in the United States and the chairman of t... More >
I've been talking to several different experts lately about what employers who are reviewing their corporate blogging/social networking policies should consider. And they've all said different thin... More >
Though it previously offered to destroy the data its Street View camera cars "inadvertently" collected from unsecured Wi-Fi networks in 33 countries and Hong Kong, Google has reportedly agreed to t... More >
Here's a shocker: The Federal Trade Commission has delayed the enforcement deadline for its Red Flag Rules yet again. The number of times full compliance has been delayed for these rules, which are... More >
You'd think someone besides Facebook and Google would learn from the companies' recent privacy gaffes, but maybe not. The Associated Press reported Wednesday that Yahoo is preparing to launch new ... More >
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is still trying to reassure users (and perhaps convince regulators?) that the company is serious about giving users control over their information on the social-network... More >
For those of us who tend to think that data breaches happen far away and to everyone else comes this reminder from the public radio station right here in IT Business Edge's hometown of Louisville, ... More >
On Tuesday, I ranted about the woman who is suing Google for giving "unsafe directions" after she was hit by a car when walking down a street in Utah. A coworker described it as "the definition of ... More >
Amid all the ruckus surrounding the recent changes to Facebook's privacy controls, the folks at QuitFacebookDay.com tried to rally the troops who still care about the privacy of their information... More >
Leave it to Google to provide interesting news after a long weekend. Or to the modern human propensity toward litigation. Take this headline from CNET 's Technically Incorrect blog: Woman, hit by ... More >
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