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Lawmakers Proposing Millions for Elementary School Surveillance Cams

2008-04-15 21:00:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
Federal lawmakers are considering a proposal to let public schools use millions in federal safety grants to install surveillance cameras. The measure, which would up funding to $50 million a year, will be debated in a key committee Thursday
 
Tags: federal safety grants, key committee thursday, install surveillance cameras, public schools, federal lawmakers, millions, million, proposal, measure
 
 
 
 
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Lawmakers call on NebuAd to change privacy notification

2008-07-17 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Congressional lawmakers question NebuAd's CEO about the company's Web-tracking service
 
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Lawmakers call on NebuAd to change privacy notification

2008-07-17 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
Several U.S. lawmakers called on behavioral advertising vendor NebuAd to change its privacy notification procedures so that customers have to opt in for the company to track their Web habits instead of opting out
 
Tags: privacy notification procedures, change, vendor nebuad, lawmakers, web habits, behavioral, track, opt, customers
 
 
 
 
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Laptop = Cinderella, USB = Drizella? I.e. did the USB beat the rap?

2008-02-19 19:53:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...lawmakers? Is the laptop, the Cinderella of the family that the lawmakers hate so much? And did the USB, Drizella , (which apparently is the stepsister's name according to Disney :)) get away And finally, is this analogy a really bad one
 
Tags: usb, usb keys, protect usb keys, usb key, lawmakers, breach notification lawmakers, rich, breach notification laws, rich mogull
 
 
 
 
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Colorado Division of Motor Vehicles cited in audit report

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2008-07-11 09:18:07 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...lawmakers learned Tuesday at an interim transportation committee hearing Reference URL The Denver Post Report of The State Auditor, Driver's License and Identification (ID) Card Security Report Credit Jessica Fender, The Denver Post - Brought to the attention of The Breach Blog by an informed reader Response From the online source cited...
 
Tags: information, personal information, information security, information security breaches, sensitive information, information security strategy, information security program, security, cyber security
 
 
 
 
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Risk Management Lessons from the Mortgage Meltdown

2007-12-14 16:54:17 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management
 
...lawmakers to get involved. Weve seen other industry-wide risk management failures heading toward this level of attention with pharmaceutical , food , and toy companies. The risk of attracting tighter regulatory pressure should help encourage greater risk and compliance responsibility, and in some cases, cooperation around industry standards...
 
Tags: risk, risk exposure, risk management decisions, intelligent risk, risk-savvy media, risk management professionals, goldman sachs, goldman sachs performance, risk management information
 
 
 
 
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Show 005 - An Interview with Ed Felten

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2006-08-28 18:05:36 by rmacmich in The Silver Bullet Security Podcast
...lawmakers and the importance of public policy and the law to computer scientists. Ed also outlines the challenges of raising a bright 11-year-old A partial transcript of the interview in IEEE Security & Privacy Freedom to Tinker - Ed Feltens blog Eds Predictions for 2006 Wikipedia: Series of Tubes Subscribe to IEEE Security & Privacy
 
Tags: eds predictions, ieee security, discuss eds relationship, information technology policy, bright 11-year-old, feltens blog, privacy, computer scientists, public policy
 
 
 
 
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House Leaders Oppose Telecom Immunity

2008-02-09 23:15:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
House leaders send a letter to fellow lawmakers saying they strenuously oppose handing amnesty to telecom companies that helped the government's secret, warrantless wiretapping program
 
Tags: house leaders, strenuously oppose, telecom companies, fellow lawmakers, government, letter, secret, program, amnesty
 
 
 
 
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YADSB (Yet Another Data Security Bill)..

2007-12-20 21:39:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...lawmakers are gettting serious (maybe they always were) about data breach legislation. Rep. William Clay has just introduced a new bill , H.R. 4791, to address some of these issues. This follows previously failed starts, in June, with a similar proposal from Rep. Tom Davis We conducted a consumer survey of approximately 400 consumers during...
 
Tags: bill, specific bill, single federal law, data breach legislation, william clay, similar proposal, tom davis, consumer survey, black friday
 
 
 
 
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Britain mulling "random" audits to enhance data protection..