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(3/20/2007) Biometrics and encryption aren't exactly new. For most of us, neither is wildly exciting either. But the prospect of combining these two security pieces has sparked a call to action by Ontario's privacy commissioner. | (3/15/2007) The glitch that has plagued Canada Revenue Agency for the past two weeks appears to be fixed. The agency was able to restore their tax processing systems a day ahead of schedule. | (3/2/2007) IT leaders this week debated which standards should be used to build interoperable health information systems - an effort complicated by patient privacy concerns, technology hurdles and competing vendor interests. | (1/16/2007) The U.K. government wants to relax data protection laws so it can share people's personal data across different government agencies, but critics are decrying the proposal as another move toward a "big brother" state.
| (11/8/2006) Watchdog groups are being swamped with reports of problems with electronic voting machines across the U.S., including votes being incorrectly recorded Tuesday. | (8/14/2006) The inspector general's office at the U.S. Department of Transportation disclosed that a laptop PC containing the names, addresses, birth dates and Social Security numbers of 133,000 Florida residents was stolen from a car in Doral, Fla., on July 27. | (8/2/2006) Canada leads the U.K. and other countries in its efforts to track and investigate Internet fraud, according to a new report from the Britain's Attorney General's office. | (7/27/2006) A laptop containing personal information on more than half a million New York state workers has been found after it disappeared from the offices of a third-party data management company. | (7/24/2006) When it comes to Americans' feelings about offshoring personal data, much depends on the type of information and where it's being sent, according to a recent survey by the Ponemon Institute. | (7/3/2006) The registration process between business and citizens and Canadian government's at all levels through digital and alternate accompanying channels is the focus of InterGovWorld's current news coverage of all types of government registration. | (6/21/2006) In an effort to advance the net neutrality debate in the U.S. Congress, two groups have offered their own proposals to prohibit broadband providers from discriminating against competing Internet content, while allowing providers to separate out part of their networks for specialized products. |
  | |  | | Blog Spotlight: Sandford Borins |  | As Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto, Sandford Borins brings InterGovWorld.com readers exclusive insights into how and why the public sector is changing. You'll find new perspectives and questions, observations and objectives, lessons and answers. Cover to Cover, the blog by Prof. Sandford Borins, appears every Thursday. Inside Cover to Cover | |
| | | Unified Communications |  | Unity is a word often heard in the public sector, with myriad agencies and departments looking to foster collective thinking around some of today's most pressing issues. The word, however, doesn't usually get mentioned in the same breath as technology. That's a situation, though, that might soon be changing, thanks to a new software platform known as unified communications.
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