law and government
Best KM Practices in Government
White Paper Unlike many public and private organizations, federal, state and local government agencies worldwide were mandated by law and organizational directives during the 1990s to adopt electronic information systems. [03 Jul 2008]
State Of Oregon Meets Letter of the Law With StorageTek Email Xcelerator Software
White Paper When employees of the Department of Administrative Services of the state of Oregon government send e-mails, they are not just conducting business. They are creating public-record documents, and Oregon's Freedom of Information Act mandates that... [03 Jul 2008]
Government Agency Saves On Cost-Effective Office Productivity Application; Invests More in Law Enforcement
White Paper Central Scotland, one of Scotland's eight police jurisdictions, is responsible for protecting the public in its base at Stirling and the surrounding area. It wanted to provide office productivity applications to users who could not justify the... [03 Jul 2008]
WRQ Verastream Helps Minnesota DVS Improve Service and Cut Costs
White Paper Minnesota Driver and Vehicle Services is an agency that serves a variety of constituents including car owners, drivers, dealers, and lessors, driver-license and law-enforcement agencies, and state, county, and city government units. [03 Jul 2008]
An Appealing Decision: United States Telecom Association, et al., v. the FCC
White Paper The industry is charged with allowing easy access by law enforcement to call identifying information (defined as “dialing or signaling information that identifies the origin, direction, destination or termination of each communication generated... [03 Jul 2008]
Beyond Lessig's Code for Internet Privacy: Cyberspace Filters, Privacy-Control, and Fair Information Practices
White Paper Despite the increasing involvement of government agencies and rising public concern, no easy solution is in sight because information privacy raises some of the most important and difficult regulatory issues for the Internet. [03 Jul 2008]
Genetics, Privacy and Discrimination
White Paper They appear in constitutional law, laws governing professional confidentiality, an emerging set of provincial laws dealing with health information, data protection (privacy) and human rights laws, statutory torts, and the criminal law (protections... [03 Jul 2008]
Fear of Online Crime
White Paper Law enforcement officials argue that such secrecy is necessary because if the source code were public, criminals could figure out how to trick the system. Civil libertarians and some lawmakers think there should be more oversight when it comes to... [03 Jul 2008]
BEA and HP Create a Stable, High Performance System for Inlichtingenbureau
White Paper Through the introduction of the Work and Social Assistance Law the financial risk no longer lies with the national government, but with the local councils. Inlichtingenbureau was set up to avoid each local council being overwhelmed with floppy... [01 Jul 2008]
Jonathan Zittrain on why the internet is on a knife edge
News The Oxford University internet law professor argues the innovation that powered the growth of the internet and home computing was made possible by their open, "generative" structure, which allowed anyone to write software or build web pages. [30 Jun 2008]
Top Law Firm Relies on Storage From Network Appliance and 3PAR
White Paper One the top law firms in the United States represents clients in high-stakes litigation, complex financing and regulatory matters, government affairs, and corporate and technology transactions. With data growing about 30% annually, storage was... [25 Jun 2008]
German District Council Expands to Manage Data Requirements of 10 Authorities With Virtualization
White Paper When a new German Administration Reform Law came into force, their aim was to promote streamlined management of local government administration and simplify IT environments, and their IT employees had to rapidly increase the processing power of... [25 Jun 2008]
Legal Eye: Europe's copyright controversy
Comment In January 2008, the government published plans for reform of UK copyright law. But can a consensus ever be reached when the very principle of the law, and its implementation, is so inconsistent? Its award-winning technology, media and commercial... [18 Jun 2008]
Nasa hacker fights extradition
News Hearing his appeal will be the Law Lords, a group of senior judges. McKinnon's fate now hangs on the decision of the Law Lords, who will determine whether there was an abuse of process by the US authorities. [13 Jun 2008]
Cyber crime: The global battle
News There are 92 cyber crime task forces across the country made up, mostly led by the FBI, and composed of local law enforcement, government agencies and support partners. It links local criminal investigations to international law enforcement and... [05 Jun 2008]
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