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White Paper To understand the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, bank compliance officers should think back to the Clinton administration's efforts in the early 1990s to achieve healthcare reform through a massive restructuring of the... [03 Jul 2008]
CALEA: Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994
White Paper On October 25, 1994, President Clinton signed into law the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). To ensure that law enforcement agencies can continue to conduct court authorized surveillance of wire or electronic communications... [03 Jul 2008]
Electronic Signature FAQ for the Insurance Industry
White Paper The recently passed Electronic Signature in Global and National Commerce Act (E-SIGN) signed by President Bill Clinton will now enable true e-business solutions by giving electronic signatures the same legal weight as wet ink signatures on paper. [03 Jul 2008]
Just whose legislation rules the internet?
Comment Since then Google has bought Blogger.com and everyone who's anyone appears to have a weblog - Hillary Clinton, David Cameron, Bart Simpson and more. Given these facts, and pursuant with section 230(c) of the Communications Decency Act, Blogger does... [05 Mar 2008]
Hillary Clinton talks tech
News Read on for Hillary Clinton's responses. Hillary Clinton: Broadband is the infrastructure of the 21st century. Clinton: My BlackBerry. The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act's section restricting the "circumvention" of copy protection measures... [03 Jan 2008]
US fills top cyber-security post at last
News Previous cyber security "tsars" have been, besides Purdy, Richard Clarke, a veteran of the Clinton and first Bush administrations who left the post with a lucrative book deal. Clarke was effectively succeeded in quick succession by Howard Schmidt... [19 Sep 2006]
US telco mega-mergers under scrutiny
News Sullivan, who was appointed to the federal bench by former President Clinton, said he's considering extra steps - such as requiring the administration to republish the merger agreements in national newspapers or holding another hearing where... [13 Jul 2006]
Report slams US VoIP-tapping policy
News The nine contributors include Vint Cerf, Google's chief internet evangelist and one of the net's founding fathers; Steven Bellovin and Matt Blaze, both prominent computer security professors who specialise in security; Clinton Brooks, a former... [13 Jun 2006]
US to block minors' access to MySpace?
News That law, signed by President Clinton in December 2000, requires schools and libraries that receive federal funding to block access to off-colour material. Fitzpatrick's bill, called the Deleting Online Predators Act, or Dopa, is part of a new... [11 May 2006]
Internet - Protecting Children From Unsuitable Material and Sexual Predators: Overview and Pending Legislation
White Paper Protecting children from unsuitable material and sexual predators on the Internet has been a major concern for Congress and the Clinton Administration. The major provisions of the first, the Communications Decency Act (P.L.were overturned by the... [30 Aug 2005]
508 Compliancy: Procurement for Organizational Diversity
White Paper On August 7, 1998, President Clinton signed into law the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998, which covers access to federally funded programs and services. This white paper identifies the technical standards set forth by the Access Board and who... [08 Jun 2005]
New cybersecurity post planned by US
News First there was Richard Clarke, a veteran of the Clinton and first Bush administrations who cashed out with a lucrative book deal. Clarke was effectively succeeded in quick succession by Howard Schmidt, known for testifying in favour of the... [17 May 2005]
5 years ago... Clinton to give grants to trainee cyber-snoopers
News 07.01.00: President Clinton is planning a scholarship scheme for university students who study computer security and work for the government after graduation. Of course it wasn't without controversy in Clinton's day, and is far from widely accepted... [07 Jan 2005]
US Attorney General resigns
News Under Ashcroft, the Justice Department ramped up online obscenity prosecutions and - after suffering a severe setback from a federal appeals court - settled the Microsoft antitrust case filed in 1998 under the Clinton administration. [10 Nov 2004]
Why US presidents can't keep their tech promises
Comment Not only was the ACLU's effort wasted, but Clinton ended up signing the Communications Decency Act, and his deputies strong-armed Congress into approving the Digital Telephony Law - which today is creating no end of problems for VoIP companies. [01 Nov 2004]
