Topic: The White House
This year-end special section focuses on people who represent the highest degree of professionalism in security, individuals who stand out for their technical skills, managerial prowess, insight and advocacy. SC's 2011 influential IT security thinkers • Sameer Bhalotra, White House deputy cybersecurity ...
The EEC (European Economic Community ) has pursued the former, and passed comprehensive data protection laws with coordination on information collection and data flows. Two Representatives in the House Select Committee on Homeland Security are calling for a Privacy Czar. The Privacy ...
Critics of the White House's proposed national internet identity authentication plan, intended to improve online privacy and security, say the strategy may do just the opposite. Proponents, meanwhile, believe it represents a major step toward establishing online trust.Critics of the White House's ...
The White House is hoping to come up with a comprehensive strategy to better protect people in cyberspace and is asking the public for help.. The goal, as described in a blog post by White House cybersecurity chief Howard Schmidt, is to ...
When Barack Obama was campaigning for the presidency in 2008, he promised that as president, he would " That pledge will be put to the test as the Obama administration considers whether to support a new privacy proposal released by a coalition ...
US President Barack Obama on Thursday named tech wizard Vivek Kundra to the new post of Chief Information Officer, putting him in charge of how government agencies use information technology.Kundra, 34, who championed YouTube, Twitter and Facebook in his previous job as ...
President Barack Obama Thursday put tech wizard Vivek Kundra in charge of how US government agencies use information technology in the new post of Chief Information Officer.Kundra, sought to use applications like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook in his previous role in Washington's ...
YouTube helped fuel Barack Obama's popularity. The Obama administration has stopped using embeddable YouTube videos on the Whitehouse. The main problem was that YouTube served long-term tracking cookies to every visitor to the president's blog, even if they didn't click "play" to ...
Since January, the Bush administration has committed to spending billions to keep the government's computer networks safe from cyber-spies and other malicious hackers. "Private contractors are not happy about this," says a source familiar with information security executives at contractors Northrup Grumman ...