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Europe raising bar on security, privacy
The European Union's eEurope initiative seeks to ensure public trust in the information economy and electronic government
Digital Government
Europe faces PKI Challenge
Mirroring the Federal PKI Steering Committee's goal of interoperability, European officials will work to unite various publickey infrastructure technologies
People
O Canada's e-prowess
While U.S. federal online efforts remain in the formative stage, about half the transactions between Canadians and their government now can be performed online.
People
Exposing 'human trade'
The State Department is going online to help fight the international trafficking of human beings.
Digital Government
New nets heat up Antarctica
Antarctica is a desert on ice. Although the continent holds more than 90 percent of the world's ice, it only averages a few inches of precipitation annually and is one of the least friendly places on Earth for human habitation.
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Site to monitor global slave trade
The State Department is sponsoring a Web site to draw attention to the international crisis of trafficking in human beings
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Treaty portal to get power search
Those seeking treaty information on the State Department's portal will soon find a new search function that will include treaties, compliance, inspection and other data
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Cohen: Superpower status has a downside
Cyberwarfare and other security threats simply come with the territory when your country is the world's only remaining 'superpower,' Defense Secretary William Cohen told a group of veterans last week.
Digital Government
CIA uses technology to reform culture of distrust
Intelligence experts and critics argue that the Internet has turned the notion of 'central intelligence,' as in the Central Intelligence Agency, into an oxymoron.
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Global governments shape e-economy
A report from an international policy and technology consulting firm looked at foreign nations' 'ereadiness' five strengths needed for an economy to function in an IT world
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Superpower status risks cyberattack
Cyberwarfare comes with the territory when your country is the world's only remaining 'superpower,' Defense Secretary William Cohen said
Digital Government
Key space station tech still weak
Problems still exist in the development of displays for the International Space Station's primary command and control computers, NASA's Inspector General reported
Digital Government
Lab certified to test security software
CygnaCom Solutions Inc.'s Security Evaluation Laboratory has been certified to test information security software based on international criteria
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Iraq foils high-tech weapons inspections
Iraq has dismantled an automated video surveillance monitoring system installed by the United Nations at several weapons facilities, the CIA reports
Digital Government
Report: China to tax E-Commerce
The United States has a ban on Internet taxes, but China will not let electronic commerce go tax-free, the director of the country's State Administration of Taxation has said
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Lack of embassy e-mail 'laughable'
A Florida congressman argues that risks to American interests were too great not to wire the State Department's overseas missions
Digital Government
U.S. updates encryption export policy
U.S. companies can now export any encryption product to any end user in the 15 European Union nations and eight other U.S. allies
People
Still facing a Cold War chill
The Clinton administration must rethink arms control policies if it is to deploy a limited missileinterception system and avoid a nuclear arms control crisis with Russia, experts recently warned Congress.
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