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The Riley Report  A periodical with commentary on IT policies and practices by Thomas B. Riley

This month’s report looks at how the development of different security laws are having an impact on privacy.  The column is based on a paper prepared by the author entitled: Security Laws and Privacy: Striking the Balance.  It examines three jurisdictions, the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, how they are approaching anti-terrorism laws, and the possible impacts these laws are having on privacy in these countries.  The paper makes the argument that privacy is an intrinsic right in democracies and must be preserved, but recognizes that the right balance needs to be found between these competing pieces of legislation.  

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Security Laws and Privacy: Striking the Balance

This Report looks at how the development of different security laws, are having an impact on privacy. The report makes the argument that privacy is an intrinsic right in democracies and must be preserved but also recognizes the necessity to find the right balance between security and privacy in order to deal in an effective manner with today's terrorism threats facing many countries. Read as PDF. Read as Word document

 

INTERNATIONAL TRACKING SURVEY REPORTS: 2003

This is the fourth in a series of five reports assessing international developments in the policies and public administration issues now driving e-government and e-governance. This report addresses the differences between e-government and e-governance in our growing global information society. 

The French version is also available on this site.

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This third report in our 2003 series on information policies and e-governance, e-government and e-democracy, addresses the nature of government information in a growing global information society and how applications of information distribution can better assist the public in contributing effectively to the knowledge society. Thus, the third report in this series assesses the pivotal role that information is taking in e-government and why governments are starting to look at ways to distribute wider amounts of information to the public. These reports represent guidelines for policy implementations for e-government that can be used by governments, whether they are developed or developing countries. 

The French version is also available on this site.

This is the second in the series five policy papers and their relation to e-government. Research for this paper has shown that the application of Knowledge Management is beginning to grow within many government departments. This paper explores the growing subject matter and offers some case examples. A French translation of this paper can be found here. 

This Report on the relationship of Information Management to e-Government is the first of a series of five International Tracking Survey Reports. The next four Reports, to be released over the next four months, deal with Knowledge Management, the Information Society and the relationship of E-government to E-democracy. The Final report in the series will be on the evolution of e-democracy and online consultations. A French translation of this paper can also be found here. 

 

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