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Veterans can breathe a little easier over the massive May data theft at the Veterans Administration (VA). The FBI and the VA’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) do not think the data on a laptop and an external hard drive stolen from a VA employee’s home has been used for identity theft purposes, according […]

There’s been another government data breach. This time it’s the U.S. Navy. Late Friday afternoon, the Navy announced approximately 28,000 sailors and their family members were exposed to potential identity theft when a civilian Web site posted five spreadsheets with the personal data of military personnel. According to the Navy, there is no evidence that […]

WASHINGTON — Note to Internet telephone users: Your monthly bill is about to go up. In a long anticipated move, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruled Wednesday Voice over IP (define) services must contribute a portion of their revenues to the Universal Service Fund (USF). If VoIP providers follow the lead of local and long […]

WASHINGTON – Angry veterans aren’t waiting for Congress to take action over the recent Veterans Administration loss of 26.5 million personal records of veterans. Tuesday afternoon, a coalition of veterans groups filed a class action lawsuit demanding the VA name those who are at risk for identity theft. The suit seeks $1,000 in damages for […]

A prominent Washington IT trade group is taking exception to a new government draft report raising privacy concerns over the use of RFID for human tracking. The Department of Homeland Security’s Emerging Applications and Technology Subcommittee said in a 15-page report that the use of RFID in identification cards or tokens could lead to illegal […]

The Bush administration is refusing to release a report about the impact of outsourcing and offshoring on the U.S. IT and semiconductor industries. Instead, the Commerce Department is releasing a 12-page synopsis of the report mandated by Congress in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2004 as a sop to the weak-kneed on free trade. The […]

UPDATED: If politics makes strange bedfellows, “certified e-mail” is making a lot of disparate groups downright kinky. This afternoon, groups from across the political spectrum — from the Gun Owners of America to MoveOn.org to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) — will all bed down together to rise up against America Online’s (AOL) plan to […]

WASHINGTON — The nation’s leading technology companies were lectured and hectored yesterday by lawmakers accusing them of collaborating with Chinese censors. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco sat through almost two hours of opening statements – almost all them blisteringly critical of the Internet powerhouses — by a House subcommittee on human rights. And that was […]

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Kevin Martin is worried about mounting rumors of a proposed “two-tiered” broadband delivery system by the Baby Bells. Under the plan being quietly pushed in Congress by the Bells, broadband providers would be able to charge Internet companies, such as Yahoo, Google and Amazon, an extra fee to deliver high-bandwidth […]

E-mail faces significant challenges from real time communications, spam and bugs and viruses, according to a new report from IDC. For e-mail to retain its status as the dominant form of electronic communication, e-mail solution providers and their customers must uphold the high value of e-mail while reducing the associated costs and risks, the report […]