Limits on H-1B hiring by bailout recipients still in economic stimulus bill
A provision that would restrict the hiring of H-1B visa holders by banks receiving federal bailout funds was left in the economic stimulus bill by U.S. House and Senate negotiators. Read more...

Massachusetts extends compliance deadline on data security rules — again

Draft legislation would give money to e-waste research

SEC sets deadline for electronic filing of financial data

Firms Take Steps to Head Off Encryption Dangers

Geeks.com agrees to security audits in wake of data breach

Calif. DMV tried to sneak in biometrics for driver's licenses, groups claim

Google offers tool to let you track your friends' movements

Google privacy trial opens in Milan

Drive Makers Agree on TCG Encryption Standard

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Good IT salary news, plus scams, drugs and DTV
We're taking a break from (most) bad economic news this week. Among other things, a couple of new salary surveys struck encouraging notes.

Bulky trouble by the Bay
Few cities in the world owe as much to the Internet as San Francisco does. Both Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 helped to fund office construction, thousands of high-paying jobs, and soaring home prices in the city and across the whole Bay Area. The 'Net also owes a lot to San Francisco, the birthplace of Craigslist, Twitter, Blogger.com and countless other startups.

Google offers tool to let you track your friends' movements
Not content with indexing the world's information, Google is now tracking where users of its maps service are, and making that location data searchable by others.

Cloud computing and compliance: Be careful up there
If you're in an industry that requires regulatory compliance -- and who isn't these days -- it pays to check out your cloud vendor thoroughly before you leap. Here are some things to keep in mind, specifically for SAS 70, PCI DSS and HIPAA.

Digital TV delay bill dies in House
The Feb. 17 nationwide switch to digital television is still on, at least for now, after the House of Representatives failed to pass legislation that would have delayed the transition date to June 12.

Bush's exit to put new e-records system to the test
The National Archives received only 32 million e-mails from the Clinton administration eight years ago, but in a few months, it expects to get hit with 50 times that from the Bush administration, which has exacerbated the problem by dragging its feet in supplying the data.

Opinion: Red Flag Rules' Nov. 1 deadline postponed
The recent Wall Street meltdown sparked an outcry for new regulations to prevent another financial crisis. Congress is having hearings to lay the groundwork for a massive new set of laws, but most companies are woefully unprepared to meet any new e-discovery requirements.

Opinion: FTC's new Red Flag Rules cast wide identity theft net
On Nov. 1, 2008, the Federal Trade Commission's Red Flag Rules will take effect requiring any institution that extends credit to implement a program to detect, prevent and mitigate instances of identity theft.

When to shred: Purging data saves money, cuts legal risk
Many organizations hang on to more data than they need, for much longer than they should. They pay millions of dollars for e-discovery, litigation that didn't have to happen or just plain expensive storage costs.

Opinion: The elusiveness of data classification
For those who simply want to facilitate a more effective tiered storage infrastructure, the most practical approach is to align based on applications rather than data. As technologies such as advanced file system and metadata management evolve, data classification options will increase.

The new real-time location service uses multiple wireless technologies to pinpoint your location. Here's how. (Also don't miss our hands-on review of Google Latitude.) Six trends will conspire over the next year to drive e-book reading to levels that will surprise just about everybody. Bruce Allen's most recent DIY supercomputer was ranked No. 58 in the world in the months after it was built. The total number of IT jobs is declining because of the recession. But some companies are still hiring tech workers -- even Microsoft and IBM, despite their cutbacks.

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