regulation

The Obama Administration is backing a new data privacy bill of rights aimed at protecting consumers against indiscriminate online tracking and data collection by advertisers.

"Fatally premature and should be dismissed" is a great personal criticism, but not a good defense from a regulator who believes in its mission.

As more hospitals and clinics plug patient monitoring equipment and other devices into traditional data networks, the closer the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) comes to regulating the networks as medical devices.

Verizon's latest suggestion to ensure net neutrality is to suggest non-telecom vendors are to blame for network throttling and eliminate "anticipatory" limits on its behavior.

The Federal Trade Commission suspects privacy may be at risk on the Internet, plans tips to help companies avoid doing that. Recommendation 1.: Don't.

The Obama administration is reportedly considering plans to step up policing of Internet privacy issues and to establish a new position to direct the effort.

Government needs to better understand the realities of running profitable businesses -- and quickly -- as it imposes security regulations that can affect the profitability of corporations battling in a competitive environment.

Popular social networking sites, such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, are causing a stir in the financial services community as well as other highly regulated industries as companies seek ways to control how the sites are used to communicate with potential clients and colleagues.

What programming languages might be good for regulatory specification? Here are some observations on new roles for computing in financial regulations.

Internet security is a horizontal issue that we regulate vertically, and this is putting us all at risk.

Watch out, libertarian techies -- big government has upped its ante in a number of tech issues dominating headlines. In the near future we could see the Feds impact the future of unfettered Internet access, electronic books, and Apple policy for how its products are used.