Tag: rules

June 23, 2022

In today’s business world, compliance training is a given. It is the single most important tool for ensuring a safe and productive workplace, and it is required by law.  In a rapidly changing and complicated regulatory world, it’s more important […]

October 8, 2020

The Department of Homeland Security is making headway with a cybersecurity talent management system, top agency IT officials said, but it is a painstaking job to re-engineer the agency’s long-standing hiring processes. The agency is working to change hiring regulations […]

June 18, 2020

The Supreme Court ruled against President Donald Trump on Thursday in a set of cases over his effort to end the Obama-era immigration program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. The ruling will protect hundreds of thousands […]

February 24, 2020

A U.S. appeals court on Monday upheld Trump administration changes that include additional hurdles for those seeking abortions through a federal program that helps low-income women. The 7-4 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned decisions issued […]

January 29, 2020

President Trump signed the revised North American Free Trade Agreement into law on Wednesday, fulfilling a key campaign promise and bringing more than two years of tumultuous negotiations over the continent’s trade rules to a close. The trade deal, now […]

January 16, 2020

For the first time, the Iowa Democratic Party will report three sets of results from the party’s presidential caucuses. And there is no guarantee that all three will show the same winner. Each set of results represents a different stage […]

August 28, 2019

Facebook is tightening its rules around political advertising ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential elections, an acknowledgement of previous misuse. But it’s not clear if it will be enough to stop bad actors from abusing its system. The changes include […]

March 27, 2018

Leveraging a multibillion federal subsidy, the nation’s communications chief is looking to new rules that would bar foreign telecommunications equipment suppliers who are deemed a threat to national security. At the Federal Communications Commission’s next public meeting on April 17, […]

March 7, 2018

Internet of Things (IoT) devices should never be equipped with universal default passwords, and any credentials or personal data within the device must be securely stored, while devices must provide be easy for consumers to configure and delete data from. […]

April 5, 2017

Opera Software today boasted that the number of new U.S. users of its namesake browser more than doubled days after Congress voted to repeal restrictions on broadband providers eager to sell customers’ surfing history. Opera debuted a VPN — virtual […]

March 16, 2017

A Democratic senator pressed the Department of Homeland Security for clarity on the designation of election systems as critical infrastructure in response to reports of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. In a letter to DHS Secretary John Kelly, […]

March 2, 2017

Microsoft today announced that it would offer customers more options for installing — and delaying — monthly security updates and once-or-twice-a-year feature upgrades in the Creators Update slated to ship this month or next. “What we heard back most explicitly […]

January 19, 2017

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency on Wednesday updated rules relating to the collection, retention and dissemination of information of U.S. persons, including putting a limit of five years on holding certain sensitive data and introducing restrictions for querying the data. […]

November 23, 2016

The Justice Department is eliminating a key legal gap that has stymied or killed past federal botnet investigations, Leslie Caldwell, assistant attorney general announced. Under new rules, federal law enforcement won’t be required to file in almost 100 individual federal […]

October 28, 2016

The Obama White House is offering new guidelines on how agencies should go about modernizing legacy IT systems. The draft policy, released Oct. 27, comes from federal CIO Tony Scott and , Office of Management and Budget Director Shaun Donovan. […]

September 29, 2016

Small businesses are driving the demand for commercial drone aircraft in the U.S. The federal government has taken first steps in rolling out drone regulations, and industry representatives came to Capitol Hill this week to argue that those rules need […]

August 31, 2016

An EU regulatory group Tuesday imposed tough new rules on European ISPs, in a move that advocates for net neutrality are hailing as a great victory. The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications published a 45-page report that essentially […]

April 19, 2016

Microsoft has cited new European data protection rules in support of its claim that the U.S. government should use inter-governmental agreements rather than a warrant to force the technology company to provide emails stored in Ireland that are required for […]

March 17, 2016

The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation today approved the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization bill. In an amendment to the bill filed by Senators Heller and Cantwell, the Senate committee instructs the FAA to create rules for […]

December 15, 2015

Private owners of small unmanned aerial systems are required to begin registering the drones with the government, according to new Federal Aviation Administration rules released on Dec. 14. The agency has been working double-time to get the registration process set […]