Government & Public Sector

For almost a month now, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has been collecting comments about the pros and cons of creating a No Spam Registry that would attempt to do to spam what the Do Not Call registry did to telemarketing calls. How does it look? According to a recent article in The Washington Post, the cons have it, in more ways than one.

On March 4, 2004, the Hong Kong government released the 2004 Digital 21 Strategy, its third such strategy paper since 1998. Like before, the paper marks out an ambitious roadmap for development across the whole gamut of information and communications technology (ICT) business and activities. It might be of interest to pull together the new laws that are implicit prerequisites for delivery of the latest strategy. In doing this, I have found that the lawmakers will be kept very busy, although some of what is necessary is already in the pipeline.

In a bid to protect Europeans' rights to privacy, the European Parliament Wednesday voted by 276 to 260 in favor of referring a draft agreement between the European Commission

The number one threat to the sensitive data stored on your PDA or smart phone remains physically losing the device, but other threats are looming on the handheld horizon.

Following a wave of indictments this month that netted guilty pleas to securities fraud and other charges from several former finance executives at Computer Associates International Inc. (CA), speculation is turning to the fate of the company's chief executive officer (CEO).

U.S. companies are expected to invest billions of dollars this year in technologies and consulting services to help them comply with Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and other regulations. But few will be able to quickly leverage those investments to improve their internal business processes, IT executives and analysts said this week.

More than a dozen corporate IT auditors attending a conference this week said they're struggling mightily to document the controls used within their IT departments in time to meet the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance deadlines that most large companies are facing late this year.

With compliancy deadlines recently passed and some fast approaching, the software vendor community is making strong efforts to automate much of the manual processes involved in obtaining, protecting, retaining and storing sensitive information.