Government & Public Sector

More than 1,400 Canadians, primarily in the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta, have been notified of a major security breach by Equifax Canada Inc., a national consumer-credit reporting agency.

As moves to commercialize government-owned software gather pace, the question arises - how much intellectual property the state can call its own?

The White House has released details of its proposed fiscal 2005 U.S. IT budget, which is showing signs of increased strain amid a ballooning national deficit, the continued war on terrorism and the urgent demands of homeland security.

Maher Arar, the Ottawa software engineer who was controversially held in Syria for 10 months, does not act like a man with much to hide.

"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong." -- H.L. Mencken That...

Critics and supporters of a new Europe-wide antipiracy law were disappointed by a compromise text approved Tuesday by the European Parliament.

The U.S. Senate voted to approve an amendment restricting federal tax dollars from being used on jobs going overseas, a day after a U.S. representative introduced a bill prohibiting federal grants and loans from going to some companies that send jobs out of the country.

As if e-mail spam and viruses weren't enough to contend with on a daily basis, consumers must also continue to be wary of e-mail identity theft methods that are using trusted company names to lure victims.