Jaikumar Vijayan reports: A revised version of a cybersecurity bill first proposed last year was introduced again in the U.S. Senate today, notably without a controversial provision that would have given the President authority to disconnect networks from the Internet during a national emergency. The bill, called the Cybersecurity Act, is sponsored by Senators Jay…
Category: Laws
States give inmates access to personal data of others
Peter Eisler reports: Prisons in eight states let convicts work in jobs that give them access to Social Security numbers and other personal information for the public, despite years of warnings that the practice should end, a federal audit finds. Most of the prisoners hold jobs processing public records for federal, state and local governments,…
Britain passes tough new internet piracy bill
Emma Woollacott reports: Britain’s House of Lords has approved a bill allowing the government to shut down illegal file-sharers. Music companies are delighted. But British Telecom, Google and Facebook aren’t: they think illegal file-sharers should be fined, rather than cut off. Last week, in a letter to the Financial Times, they said the proposed amendment…
Fingerprint Submission Requirements Rule
From the Federal Register: [Federal Register: March 17, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 51)] [Notices] [Page 12803-12804] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr17mr10-107] NATIONAL CRIME PREVENTION AND PRIVACY COMPACT COUNCIL Fingerprint Submission Requirements Rule Authority: 42 U.S.C. 14616. AGENCY: National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact Council. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: Notice of the…