As a child, the main point of playing tag was to avoid being tagged. Many people are learning lately that the same thing applies to Tagged.com, a social networking Web site that has made the experience of being tagged anything but fun. The site has been around since 2004 and boasts 70 million members to…
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Fingerprint plan for Turkish ID cards raises debate
A draft bill that anticipates the use of fingerprints on national identity cards for adult citizens has sparked controversy among Turkish lawmakers. According to the draft bill, which was approved by the parliamentary planning and budget commission, a biometrical fingerprint will be included on the identity cards to be given to all Turkish citizens over…
Canadians ok with sharing tax information: survey
There’s been a sharp increase in the number of Canadians who think it’s OK for the Canada Revenue Agency to share their tax information with other federal departments and provincial governments. According to a major survey conducted for the CRA by Corporate Research Associates Inc., one in two Canadians think sharing tax information is a…
POLICY 2009
Location: Imperial College London, UK IEEE International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks The symposium brings together researchers and practitioners working on policy-based systems across a range of application areas including policy-based networking, privacy and security management, storage area networking, and enterprise systems. POLICY 2009 has grown out of a highly successful series…