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President Biden Signs Two Bills Aimed at Enhancing Government Cybersecurity

Hunton Privacy

On June 21, 2022, President Biden signed into law, the State and Local Government Cybersecurity Act of 2021 (S. 1097) (the “Cyber Workforce Program Act”), two bipartisan bills aimed at enhancing the cybersecurity postures of the federal, state and local governments.

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Transition to Electronic Government: Signs of the Time

Preservica

In 2002, I accepted the position of Statewide Records and Forms Coordinator for the Wisconsin Department of Electronic Government (DEG). Today, digital information and communications technologies are ubiquitous in the public sector and every agency is engaged in e-government. Playing Catch Up.

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ELAR at SOAS to create new online archive to safeguard the world’s disappearing languages

Preservica

Founded in 2002 to preserve and make accessible endangered languages recordings as resources for linguists, social scientists and language communities, the Endangered Languages Archive documents and preserves humanities intangible cultural heritage encoded in endangered languages. SOAS is among the world’s elite university institutions.

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First Cyber Defence & Information Assurance courses to receive CILIP accreditation

CILIP

Its strategic partnership with the Ministry of Defence dates back to 1984 when Cranfield was awarded a contract to provide education for the Royal Military College of Science. Since the establishment of the UK?s

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House Passes Two Cybersecurity Bills

Hunton Privacy

3523), which is aimed at facilitating the exchange of cyber threat intelligence information between the government and certain private entities. 4257), which modifies the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 to provide for automated and continuous monitoring of the security of government information systems.

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Judging Facebook's Privacy Shift

Schneier on Security

Societies will regulate Facebook, and the quality of that regulation requires real education of legislators and their staffs. While businesses often want to avoid regulation, any focus on privacy will require strong government oversight. We wrote a similar essay in 2002 about judging Microsoft's then newfound commitment to security.

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DOS and DON’TS of a 30(b)(6) Witness Deposition, Part Five

eDiscovery Daily

April 18, 2002). Depositions of government agencies are explicitly permitted under Rule 30(b)(6), but if the agency happens to be serving as trial counsel in an enforcement action and also conducted or supervised the underlying investigation, many courts refuse to permit the deposition. Certificates, Inc. Civil Action No.