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Text messaging attacks have increased significantly this year, according to a Cisco Systems report. Many messages appear to come from banks and ask recipients to call a number to verify account information.
A federal court has ruled that an employee may pursue a lawsuit against his employer over the use of keylogging technology. The technology, used for employee monitoring, might violate federal law, determined the court, if the company’s actions affected interstate commerce.
A federally funded program to reduce gun violence has been in place for years in the United States, but it is not implemented consistently across the country. A new report examines how well it’s been working.
Laboratory reports used in criminal cases may not be used at trial unless scientific experts testify to the validity of the reports, according to a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision. The ruling centered on a defendant’s right to confront his or her accuser under the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Two recent cases reaffirm an employer’s right to terminate a potentially violent employee. In one case a psychologically disturbed doctor was fired after he threatened to kill his supervisor and coworkers. Another lawsuit involved a teacher who was fired after she declared that she could kill 22 people in front of a host of witnesses, including her 22 students.
The EU’s 14-year-old Data Protection Directive has caused headaches for global business operations. Now even some supporters say it is increasingly outmoded in a globally networked world and could benefit from a formal review. That’s just one finding in a RAND study on the issue.
Lawmakers at a recent House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing expressed concerns over a civil nuclear agreement between the United States and the United Arab Emirates. Read the transcript and watch the video online.
Lawmakers on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia recently held a hearing on a whistleblower protection bill (S. 372). The bill was introduced by Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-HI), who chairs the subcommittee.
The bill would expand whistleblower protection of federal employees to clarify that any disclosure is protected under the law, to provide a process to review suspensions and revocations of security clearances, and to protect disclosures of censorship of scientific information.
A bill (S. 773) introduced by Sen. John Rockefeller (D-WV) would develop a program to review and improve cybersecurity.
The bill would establish a cybersecurity advisory panel to provide guidance to the President on cybersecurity issues relating to the federal government’s data systems. Under the proposal, the Secretary of Commerce would provide cybersecurity status and vulnerability information to the panel and would also create regional cybersecurity centers to help small and medium businesses protect their data systems.
A new law (P.L. 111-30) extends penalties for antitrust violations established in 2004 under the Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act. The new law extends the penalties through June 22, 2010.
The enhanced criminal penalties for antitrust violations that were extended by the law include maximum prison sentences for individuals increased from three to 10 years; maximum individual fines increased from $350,000 to $1 million; and corporate fines increased from $10 million to $100 million.
A new law in Washington State (formerly H.B. 1844) requires that state employees who are responsible for issuing drivers’ licenses, vehicle licenses, or state IDs undergo a criminal background check. The checks will be required before a person is hired and repeated every five years for current employees.
Nebraska legislators have enacted a law (formerly H.B. 155) establishing new identity theft crimes. Under the law, knowingly providing false personal identifying information or a false identification document to a court or law enforcement officer is a felony. Knowingly providing such false information to a prospective employer with the goal of gaining employment is a misdemeanor.
An employee who claims that her employer should have known about inappropriate conduct in the workplace may not sue her employer for sexual harassment, according to a federal appeals court. The court ruled that the employee did not report the harassment to a management-level employee, so the company had no way of knowing about the inappropriate behavior. (Huston v. Procter & Gamble, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, No. 07-2799, 2009)
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