On February 11, aerospace giant Boeing, leading a team including Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin working for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, successfully completed the first air-to-air demonstration of the Airborne Laser Testbed (ALTB) by destroying…
It’s not everyday that you hear Facebook’s most recent changes to its privacy practices referred to in strongly positive terms (at least by people who don’t work for Facebook), but some leading advocates of more fine-grained…
When Joy Pritts, the newly appointed Chief Privacy Officer in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, started her job on Monday, she already had a list of pending action items stemming from activities,…
During yesterday’s hearing of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, a panel of security experts urged the government to do more to push public and private sector action on critical infrastructure protection and Internet…
Government observers are well aware that there is a big difference between passing a provision in a piece of legislation, crafting the rules that implement the provision, and then putting those rules into effect. Where new…
With a lawsuit filed in federal court last week , school officials in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania are on the defensive over the alleged illegal use of remotely activated webcams in laptop computers issued to students. It…
HHS announced on Wednesday that Joy Pritts has been named the Chief Privacy Officer for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Pritts, a lawyer and Georgetown University professor specializing in health law…
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