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Harvard announced today that it would amend its non-discrimination policy to protect "gender identity," following growing pressure from undergraduates to safeguard the rights of transgender students and staff...
...containers that flow through the nation's ports are inspected, and there still are no standards for container locks and seals or for port-worker identification cards. The country has spent $18 billion on making airports more secure since Sept. 11, but it has invested only $630 million to safeguard the nation's ports, even though a study last year by the Department of Homeland Security and the Coast Guard found that almost 70 of the 361 U.S. ports are vulnerable to terrorism...
...shouldn't matter whether the company is from Des Moines or Dubai, do you have confidence that they are essentially doing things that safeguard our security interest?" says Flynn. And the main weakness he sees in security arrangements at ports throughout the U.S. is that they're largely the responsibility of private companies who are expected to police themselves...
...Safeguard Your Computer Google Pack is a new collection of free software that includes virus protection and spyware-blocking to keep out programs that can damage your operating system. It?s basically a bunch of software that novices need but often don't know how to get, packaged for easy use. The virus protection is trial software, though, which may eventually have to be purchased. In addition to the safety stuff, the collection includes fun new diversions like Google Earth, which lets you zoom around the globe seeing satellite images of your favorite spots...
...official can authorize, Carter said. “The level of review that has to be done in order to present a NSL is quite stringent,” Carter said. Edgar said that some of the additions to the Patriot Act legislation being debated now would help safeguard civil liberties, such as the stipulation that a NSL must make explicit a recipient’s right to consult with an attorney. But Edgar said that other changes may actually be detrimental to civil liberties. For instance, under the current act, a person who receives an information request from...