“Securities and Exchange Commission guidelines on when companies should disclose cyber-attacks have become de facto rules for at least six companies, including Google Inc. and Amazon (AMZN).com Inc., agency letters show. The six companies were asked to break silence and tell investors in futur...
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DARPA Director Regina Dugan is leaving government for a new job at Google, another in the growing list of government technology executives leaving for the private sector. More here. The Army cautioned deployed military personnel about the use of Geotagging on social media, which runs the risk of e...
The White House proposed on Thursday a “privacy bill of rights” that would give consumers more control over their data but relies heavily for now on voluntary commitments by Internet companies like Google Inc and Facebook....
Long Island’s business and technology leaders began an effort Tuesday to start a new industry here that would focus on protecting companies, government agencies and individuals from cyber attacks that have been increasingly causing chaos in the financial world and other industries. More than 1...
Google today dismissed concerns by a former senior federal IT official that the company’scontroversial new privacy policy would create problems for customers of Google Apps for Government (GAFG)....
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has completed its transition to a cloud-based Google email system, according to a blog postfrom the Internet search giant, making it the largest federal agency to host its email entirely in the cloud....
via Nextgov While an Internal Revenue Service mobile application that lets taxpayers check the status of refunds is secure, according to a federal watchdog, he scolded the IRS for breaking procedural rules to get it to market quickly. The IRS2GO app, which also allows users to receive tax tips and t...
via TMCnet In an effort to curb unfair practices associated with free web based services, the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness (CRE), a federal regulatory body, recently petitioned the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a public process establishing a “trade regulation” for web-ba...