Liberty Alliance names first director, new members
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The Liberty Alliance Project signalled that it expects to have longevity when it comes to developing and promoting federated identity standards by naming its first executive director on Monday.
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The ACLU wants access to law enforcement files that it believes will shed light on how government anti-terrorism task forces have been monitoring human rights groups and individuals.
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PARK CITY, Utah  - The Sundance Film Festival  kicked off on Thursday with a political tone struck by founder  Robert Redford, who called independent film a voice of dissent  and encouraged movie-makers to speak their minds.
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The Treasury Department appointed a new director Tuesday for its agency that targets terrorist financiers and enforces economic embargoes against Cuba and other countries.
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Rep. Mel Watt, a North Carolina Democrat whose document condemning the war with Iraq became policy for the Congressional Black Caucus, was elected the group's leader Monday. He pledged to pursue more frequent meetings with the White House.
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SAN FRANCISCO - IBM Corp. has become the latest company to join the Liberty Alliance, a global consortium aimed at developing standards for managing user identities. IBM joins Oracle Corp. and Intel Corp. as a backer of the effort, which Sun Microsystems Inc. leads.
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The Liberty Alliance has announced a new president to head the organization designed to create open standards and business guidelines for federated identity management.
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Several first-time nominees, including J.J. Abrams and Walter Hill, were among the contenders named Wednesday for the Directors Guild of America's annual television awards.
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After months of flirting, IBM Corp has finally joined the industry-backed Liberty Alliance Project, potentially speeding interoperability between two rival sets of Web services specifications for federated identity.
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Dan Glickman, the new president and chief executive of the Motion Picture Association of America, has been quietly putting his stamp on the organization.
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In his first major speech to Hollywood executives Dan Glickman, the new head of the Motion Picture Association of America, said the industry must embrace new digital and Internet technologies while continuing to battle copyright pirates.
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The ACLU files Freedom of Information Act requests to find out why antiterrorism task forces have been monitoring activists. By Ryan Singel.
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PARK CITY, Utah  - The head of the Motion Picture Association of America said on Saturday a recent labor contract between major studios and film and TV directors offers a template for deals with striking writers and other guilds.
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The first meeting of national dialogue between the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and various factions started in Gaza Monday evening in less than one week after Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat&#39;s death.
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Two of the Bush administration's chief architects of the war on terror offered words of caution along with congratulations on Tuesday, a historic day for this one-time al-Qaida haven.
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(InfoWorld) - The Liberty Alliance Project has published a document outlining the legal issues enterprises should consider when networking their Web applications and identity systems with those of other businesses. The primer on creating circles of trust raises awareness around issues such as privacy, technical terminology, indemnification and dispute resolution, the organization said. The Liberty Alliance, composed of vendors such as Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and IBM, has worked on defining technical protocols used for federated identity and Web applications. It's now studying policy issues around theÂ use of federated identity technology. While vendors are now producing standards-based products that enable the secure sharing of information, the legal consequences of what happens if things go wrong aren't so well defined. Before linking their systems, two businesses have to create a contract, a process Liberty calls establishing aÂ "Circle of Trust." Since managing federation agreeements between businesses is still a new area "it's helpful to have a checklist," said Graham Titterington, principal analyst at Ovum in London. "It's a step forward." The document was written by Liberty's Public Policy Expert Group along with legal experts, the organization said.
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By Rosemary Winters, The Salt Lake Tribune  Jan. 31--James Sorensen has been tapped as Sandy's planning director.  Sorensen replaces George Shaw, who left the department earlier this month to  oversee planning for Salt Lake City.