UNITED STATES- E-GOVERNMENT: EPA

Launches New Multilingual Websites in Korean and Vietnamese

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is launching new consolidated Web sites in Vietnamese and Korean as part of its ongoing effort to provide environmental information in Spanish, Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese, in addition to English.

These new sites compile EPA multilingual publications and materials in Korean and Vietnamese on a variety of environmental issues

UNITED STATES: Use of “Ad Networks” Surges Six-Fold as Media Companies Step Up Monetization of Unsold Online Advertising Inventory

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and Bain & Company today announced the release of a benchmark study which suggests that online publishers are increasingly turning to sales intermediaries known as ad networks to sell off excess inventories. The use of “ad networks? surged from 5% of total ad impressions sold in 2006 to 30% in 2007, according to the newly released “Digital Pricing Benchmarking Study” from Bain, the global business consulting firm, conducted in coordination with the Interactive Advertising Bureau.

EUROPEAN UNION: Public Statement on Server Based Signature Services

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

In the course of the last few years, a new architecture of electronic signatures services has emerged: Server based signature services. The main idea is that the signature creation data are not stored in a signature creation device located at the signatory, but in a central hardware security module located at the signature service provider. In order to create an electronic signature, authentication data and data to be signed or a hash of data to be signed are sent from the signatory to the provider via a secure communication channel. After verification of the authentication data, the signature is created by the hardware security module, and signed data are returned to the signatory for further processing.

AUSTRALIA: Major Privacy Law Reforms Proposed

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) report, ”For Your Information: Australian Privacy Law and Practice” (report), is the product of the most comprehensive review of Australian privacy law ever conducted. The report is 2,700 pages long and includes 295 recommendations for reform over 74 chapters, covering 10 different broad topic areas. The report also recommends the introduction of a wholly new right of action for invasion of privacy, and a requirement that serious privacy breaches be notified.