Tag: FEDERALGOVERNMENT

A few weeks ago, Google publicly admitted that its Street View cars had inadvertently collected personal data from unprotected Wi-Fi networks, and promised to implement tighter security measures to prevent future breaches. The company's mea culpa was enough to satisfy the Federal Trade Commission, which closed its investigation into the incident shortly after the announcement. The FCC, on the ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/03/24/senators-propose-national-id-cards-to-curb-illegal-immigration/'; As the Department of Homeland Security continues to urge states to adopt its national identification card program, Senators Chuck Schumer and Lindsay Graham have proposed a radically new alternative -- another national identification card. Homeland Security's Real ID initiative, ...

Vivek Kundra has been named the first Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) by President Obama. The CIO for the White House is a newly created post that will carry a variety of responsibilities, not the least of which is overseeing how the technology budget is spent by the federal government. Kundra will be responsible for making sure that federal agencies are able to communicate and share ...

Last year, the federal government's computer systems saw a 40-percent increase in cyberattacks, reports USA Today. From 2007 to 2008, reported incidents of attacks on governmental computer systems rose from 3,928 to 5,488, according to a report by the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team. While these numbers could conceivably be a result of more thorough tracking techniques, Joel Brenner of ...