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E-Commerce Compliance as it Relates to Licensing – Auditing is a Must for Companies

Do you know what the licensing agreements your organization has signed say and mean?  If not, you are at risk for large fines and possibly even larger legal fees.  Organizations have been formed to identify companies that are not complying with licensing agreements, with software vendors for example. 

So what can you do?  The first thing you should have done is an audit.
An audit is the first step and has been recommended by others dealing with software licensing matters.  Depending upon what the audit reveals, proper action can be taken to ensure compliance. 

How To Hide Your Web Site Content As Part of An Emergency Management Plan

LOS ANGELES / Chatsworth, California: Metrolink is a commuter train agency in Los Angeles California which recently had the the unfortunate experience of having one if its engineers crash killing 25 victims and injuring over 100 other people.  Their spokesperson admitted that the train wreck was caused by human error. She later resigned, or was asked to resign, while Metrolink withdrew its admission of responsibility for the deadly train accident.  Within a short period of time, Metrolink had pulled its web site, replacing it and redirecting all pages to a single page "Emergency Alert" with a well crafted and terse message about the accident and train scheduling issues.  A search of archive.org reveals that Metrolink was shrewd enough to preclude archive indexing. It is impossible to see what information they 'had' on their web site about who they are, what they do and other biographical information. DomainTools keeps an image archive of the site, which is available here. Wouldn't you just love to know what information is contained in their "Safety" section which appears on their top navigation tabs?

Google Will Delete IP Information From Search Log After 9 Months

Official Google Blog: Another step to protect user privacy

Another step to protect user privacy

Today, we're announcing a new logs retention policy: we'll anonymize IP addresses on our server logs after 9 months. Back in March 2007, Google became the first leading search engine to announce
a policy to anonymize our search server logs in the interests of
privacy. And many others in the industry quickly followed our lead.
Although that was good for privacy, it was a difficult decision because
the routine server log data we collect has always been a critical
ingredient of innovation. We have published a series of blog posts explaining how we use logs data for the benefit of our users: to make improvements to search quality, improve security, fight fraud and reduce spam.