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Obama to encourage companies to share cyber threat data

February 13, 2015 publisher civil-liberties, country, internet, michael-daniel, public-nuisance, sets-the-stage, stolen-as-much, xinhua

By Joseph Menn and Roberta Rampton SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama is set to sign an executive order on Friday aimed at encouraging companies to share more information about cybersecurity threats with the government and each other, a response to attacks like that on Sony Entertainment. The order sets the stage for new private-sector led “information sharing and analysis organizations” (ISAOs) – hubs where companies share cyber threat data with each other and with the Department of Homeland Security. It is one step in a long effort to make companies as well as privacy and consumer advocates more comfortable with proposed legislation that would offer participating companies liability protection, the White House said

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Commuter infected with measles is San Francisco LinkedIn employee

February 12, 2015 publisher civil-liberties, country, disease, employee-based, francisco, internet, linked, measles-while, michael-daniel, northern, rapid-transit

By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Northern California commuter who health officials say may have exposed tens of thousands of people to measles while riding San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit system while infectious is an employee of LinkedIn Corp, the social networking company said on Thursday.