Microsoft's general counsel and senior vice president of Legal and Corporate Affairs, Brad Smith, told the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, DC, that the existing law on electronic privacy should be upgraded to fit today's cloud-computing technologies, like Web-based email and online productivity ap... |
24 September 2010
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Science-fiction novels and movies have pictured the future of humankind in a robotized world for a long time, where mechanical entities are self-aware, and perfectly able to fend for themselves, and make decisions. In such a scenario, the Three Laws of Robotics, proposed by SF writer Isaac Asimov in his books, do app... |
19 August 2009
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A UK authority has recently taken a stand against the private genetic test industry, which, it says, needs more regulations, in order to ensure that the results it puts forth are reliable. The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee argued that there was too much leeway at the moment for the private sector, a... |
7 July 2009
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It would appear that someone from an advertising agency sent the wrong spam message to the wrong people. On Thursday, two US senators have decided to neutralize spam messages, describing them as a “nuisance to millions.” The bill will be entitled the m-SPAM Act of 2009, and is meant to drastically reduce ... |
3 April 2009
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Experts at the Cornell University (CU) have created a remarkable, new algorithm for computers, which is able to derive basic natural laws from raw scientific data. That is to say, rather than people clogging around a table over coffee and determining why, for example, gravity exists, the entire task will be performed... |
3 April 2009
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The European Union's Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) has been the main basis of Sweden's new Local IPRED Law, which states that ISPs can be forced to give copyright holders the personal data of their clients. On April 2nd, when the measure officially came into effect, monitoring s... |
3 April 2009
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On Friday, president Obama and his team made the first step towards setting things in the American health care system right, when they announced that they were looking to review and replace the decisions that Bush made before he left the White House. These resolutions basically gave health care employees the poss... |
28 February 2009
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The Australian Law Reform Commission has decided to forward a bill aimed at making people feel secure as far as their privacy is concerned, without the need of cutting off access to nearly all Internet resources. "People appreciate that other interests often come into the balance - such as freedom of speech, child pr... |
11 August 2008
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Now, this is outrageous! Thinking about security is one thing, but taking the fun part away from the Internet is just too nave to work. While taking a look at the Economic Times webpage I learned that a new law is about to be issued in India. I understand that these guys have been facing cyber-security problems, but w... |
5 October 2007
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The web isn't what it used to be anymore, and now I'm thinking about the positive changes. If during the last century e-crime would most likely go unpunished, mainly because of the lack of laws, well, things are quite different now. Governments have finally opened their eyes and seen that cyber-crime is jus... |
3 October 2007
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