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Sprint's Public Safety Deal for Nextel Comes Home to Roost

2008-05-05 14:25:10 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...safety deal and gained new spectrum as part of its acquisition of Nextel: That's all unraveling now. The FCC and the courts are saying that a 26-June-2008 deadline for vacating its 800 MHz holdings in favor of public safety groups would hold even if the new users weren't on the band. The delays for new users getting on the band are reportedly...
 
Tags: public safety deal, public safety, sprint, cost sprint billions, cost, nextel, reportedly sprint, public safety migration, delay sprint
 
 
 
 
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Safety feedback loops and new car safety features

2007-11-07 21:23:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...Safety Technology Replacing Common Sense? " The author of the article is concerned that all of the safety features in cars will in the end make them less safe as drivers become less and less accustomed to needing to pay attention while driving This argument reminds me a little bit of the snarky Apple ad about Windows UAC. It is a fine line...
 
Tags: safety, car safety technology, safety features, technology, line, fine line, job, systems, witness
 
 
 
 
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Nevada Department of Public Safety applicants exposed

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2008-03-07 10:20:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Safety Crown, Stanley and Silverman Victims Job applicants Number Affected 300 Types of Data Names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and other personal information required for thorough background checks Breach Description A private firm working for the Nevada Department of Public Safety has lost personal information provided by 109...
 
Tags: personal information, lost personal information, sensitive personal information, nevada, confidential personal information, information, nevada payroll information, nevada department, nevada dps
 
 
 
 
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Information Security, Governance, Compliance and Safety Belts

2008-03-20 07:47:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
...safety belts compulsory in 1970. This is now almost universal practice I don't know the exact statistics but a study done in South Africa found that more people used safety belts after it was made illegal to not use them than when it was left up to the driver The conclusion really is that people are more likely to obey a rule because it is...
 
Tags: safety belts, belts, information security, safety belts compulsory, people complain, people, information security equivalent, safety belt laws, laws
 
 
 
 
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mandate internet safety lessons in schools?

2008-04-09 00:34:08 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...safety clipped from www.liquidmatrix.org Virginia First To Require Internet Safety Lessons clipped from www.liquidmatrix.org Very nice. It would appear that common sense is starting to catch on! The Commonwealth of Virginia (one of my my former stomping grounds) has come out as the first US state to mandate internet safety lessons in...
 
Tags: internet safety lessons, virginia, online safety, org, hope, schools, common sense, liquidmatrix, defeat threats
 
 
 
 
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FCC should reduce or eliminate public safety spectrum license fees

2008-04-22 00:00:00 by Brad Reed in Network World on Security
 
Chief Harlin McEwen, chairman of Public Safety Spectrum Trust, said today that the Federal Communications Commission should consider drastically reducing or even eliminating the reserve price it has placed on the public safety spectrum on the 700MHz band
 
Tags: public safety spectrum, federal communications commission, chief harlin, 700mhz band, reserve price, chairman
 
 
 
 
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MySpace, states team up for children's safety

2008-01-14 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b82cb0 in Network World on Security
 
An agreement between MySpace and most U.S. state attorneys general will significantly increase the safety of minors on the popular social network and boost the ability of police to catch and prosecute sexual predators who use the Web, said MySpace and several participating attorneys general Monday
 
Tags: myspace, prosecute sexual predators, popular social network, attorneys, safety, significantly increase, boost, police, monday
 
 
 
 
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MySpace's four commandments for safety

2008-01-15 12:18:49 by Editor in ElectricNews.net - SECURITY
 
Social networking site MySpace has unveiled a new statement on the 'Key Principles of Social Networking Site Safety
 
Tags: site myspace, site safety, key principles, social, statement
 
 
 
 
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Harvard Net Scholars Spearhead Safety Task Force

2008-02-28 15:50:00 by Associated Press in Wired Security
 
The creation of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force fulfills an agreement to keep a more watchful eye for sexual predators who haunt social networking sites like MySpace
 
Tags: watchful eye, haunt social, sexual predators, sites, myspace, agreement, creation
 
 
 
 
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Read Marys article to get some good tips on ID safety

2008-03-21 00:57:02 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog