Sentences with phrase «government over access»

Apple is currently embroiled in a heated dispute with the government over access to an iPhone involved in the San Bernardino, Calif., terror attacks of December 2015, a case with potential ramifications across all of Silicon Valley.

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Boeing had taken Denmark to court over a lack of access to documents used in the government's decision to buy the Lockheed Martin jets.
Extreme politicians at every level of government are doing everything they can to block millions of people from coming to Planned Parenthood, deny access to affordable health care, and roll back women's rights over their own bodies.
Official concerns have been building over the Chinese government's access to its smartphones and other products for intelligence gathering, allegations Huawei has repeatedly denied.
The federal and state governments, and their associated regulatory bodies, should stay out of the battle over third - party access to BHP Billiton's Pilbara iron ore railway.
They express frustration over the «confusion» government surveillance causes in the marketplace, and the «erroneous reports» that the companies allowed the government access to directly access their servers.
Whether over encryption, access to users» stored data, or notice to users of government data requests, the examples are multiplying daily, and in some sense, they echo the Standard Oils of the past.
Prime Minister Theresa May's government appears to be moving towards a «hard Brexit,» whereby Britain would regain control over its borders at the expense of access to the single market.
When settler and Indigenous people clashed over access to resources — fishing grounds, or farm land — the government gave the settlers their way, ignoring the treaties when it suited them.
The government says that proposed legislation, Bill 8, could require credit - reporting agencies to give consumers free online access to their current credit score at least twice a year and to disclose information in a credit report about any scores that were given to third parties over the past 12 months.
Yahoo! is currently in a battle with the government over e-mail access.
Under the establishment clause every person is also entitled to government that does not sponsor, support or inculcate one religion, religion in general or all religions collectively; that does not prefer one religion over another; that does not build up the real estate or the personnel of a religious institution or set up religious proprietaries not required to supply state - impaired religious access; and that does not compose, initiate or promulgate official prayers, rites or liturgies, or otherwise «play church.»
As many journalists and commentators have argued, agreements like the TPP have dubious benefits for citizens of the countries involved.ISDS provisions have been criticised by U.S. Constitutional lawyer Lori Wallach for «empowering corporations to sue governments — outside their domestic court systems — over any action the corporations believe undermines their expected future profits or rights under the pact by reporting breaches, removing online content and even denying access to Internet users».
Government prosecutors and attorneys for a former close aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo are sparring over access to evidence in the corruption trial of Joe Percoco.
These include strengthening the central government Chief Information Officer's role over ITC procurement, ensuring that ITC projects do not exceed # 100m in total value, opening up access to government data, reviewing large databases and scrapping ID cards and Contact Point.
A «human rights activist» even said, rather worryingly, that, «there is need for government to maintain control over these NGOs precisely because of their access to funds which needed to be accounted for.»
By the special grace of God I used to be a politician, I'm one of the people that people in the National Assembly will not accept and because there is an urgent need for us to take Nigeria out of recession and Post can contribute huge amounts of money to the National coffers that will be distribute among the tasks of government and most importantly, Post can render what we call financial inclusion service, that's getting the people in rural areas, farmers, artisans who don't have access to normal bank services because Post offices are scattered all over the rural places.
This money nexus is already well - advanced — ranging from the appointment of unelected business leaders to ministerial posts, the various trade - offs with Murdoch, the tobacco companies over Formula 1 racing and others, down to the merging of the political apparatus around Blair and Mandelson with lobbyists selling access to government ministers.
The report comes as government reform groups and some media organizations are urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign a bill that would bolster the ability of plaintiffs in FOIL cases to be awarded attorneys» fees when they are successful in suing over access to government records.
Explicit concerns were raised over the government's attempt to exempt the armed forces from the treaty, which it saw as a deliberate move «to remove a major public authority entirely from a basic provision on non-discrimination in access to employment».
His terms of reference make clear that «standard rules of confidentiality with regard to access to government material will apply» - meaning he will not be able to blow the gaffe on the coalition's internal agonisings over higher education.
The prime minister hired Sir Tim on Wednesday, telling MPs he» «would help us drive the opening up of access to government data in the web over the coming month,» in order for government information to be accessible and useful for the widest possible group of people.
Over 10 million households in England no longer have access to weekly collections thanks to the last Labour Government compelling councils to cut collections.
Over the next four years many disabled people will see a reduction in the overall value of their benefits, as well as specific reductions in the levels of housing benefit; unemployment benefit; the loss of disability living allowance (DLA), which contributes towards the - often significant - extra costs of living as a disabled person; as well as reduced access to social care services as a consequence of local government funding cuts.
Ms Turnely continued: «In the face of the government's campaign to broaden access to universities, elite public schools have actually increased the number of pupils they send to Oxbridge over the last five years, whilst ethnic minority students are twice as likely to attend modern universities than traditional universities.»
The government has previously indicated it hopes to remain a member of Europol, which co-ordinates law enforcement for cross-border crime in Europe, though non-EU partners are not allowed to have influence over the body's strategic direction and access to some intelligence sharing is limited.
Since taking over from the rather more liberal, Kenneth Clarke Grayling has attacked human rights as «political correctness», proposed dramatic restrictions to the right of individuals to challenge the state through judicial review, imposed significant restrictions on access to lawyers with no - win no - fee cases, moved the government back on to the course of building more (and bigger) prisons — despite the evidence against them — and is set on dramatically privatising up to 70 % of the probation service ceding state responsibility for offenders to commercial enterprises.
Efforts continue to make County Government more accountable and responsive to the public, providing unprecedented access to county information and data with Marc himself hosting over 60 town hall and public forums in his first 3 1/2 years as County Executive.
Rodríguez explained that the bill would expand language access to over 1.8 million New Yorkers that the city classifies as Limited in English Proficiency and allow greater connection with city government.
For example, initially we were told that he had a possession of the handing over notes of government, now are being told to wait till tomorrow before we get access to the handing over notes.»
Getso said that over the last two years, the state government had renovated more than 300 primary and secondary health care facilities in Kano, with a view to improving access and quality of healthcare services towards reducing maternal and child mortalities.
Mr Umunna had called on the government to «get real» over Brexit, warning Britain would not be able to take on big business if it only had access to the trading bloc, rather than being a full member.
In 2002, the Pentagon took heat over the Total Information Awareness program, which New York Times columnist William Safire called a «supersnoop's dream» that would create a «computerized dossier on your private life» based traffic and has access to most of the major email, chat and on commercial and government information.
«AIDS activists and government regulators have worked together, with the best intentions, over the years to speed access to drugs.
He hopes the group will come up with «concrete steps» that national governments can take over the next 5 years to «get open access to publications and data.»
Suber notes the stark contrast between the quiet brokering of SCOAP3 and the battles playing out over mandates for open - access publication by research funders such as foundations and government agencies (see Nature 486, 302 — 303; 2012).
Internet users trying to access the pages over the weekend have found that they are unavailable, apparently following a request from the Indian government.
Over the past 50 years, the role of the federal government in K - 12 public education has been to ensure equal educational access and to provide resources for those students who need additional supports.
CCSSI emphasizes that state participation remains voluntary, that local educators will retain control over instructional materials, and that the federal government will not gain access to information on individual students.
The states that comprise the consortia retain control over student information, and neither the testing companies nor the federal government will have access to individual student information.
That means putting students over special interests, expanding access to high - performing schools, empowering parents and loosening the federal government's grip on education policy decisions that are better left to local officials.
The US government is planning on implementing a program that will see $ 250 million to give kids access to over 10,000 e-book titles.
Yvonne Manzi Makolo who is the senior sales manager over at MTN Rwanda, said «the government and a lot of companies will find value in BlackBerry given that MTN Rwanda has GSM / GPRS network throughout the country, which enables easy access to its mobile internet.»
The thoughtful, detailed analysis and judgment of the proposed move by the federal government to create a national securities regulator shows how little improvement there really is likely to be for the individual investor in solving key problems: high fees for mutual funds, costly access to government of Canada securities, lack of fiduciary responsibility by the industry towards investors, inadequate civil court recourse against misbehaving financial firms, priority given to financial system protection over investor interests.
Firms with political access also scored more government contracts, earning an additional US$ 34 million in profit on average over the next year.
The reason why students are often confused with whether or not a Sallie Mae student loan is private or federal is because in 2008 our congress approved the Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act where the government took over 112 - billion dollars worth of private student loan debts (commercially originated debt).
HSUS sued the government in 2005 over public access to the reports and won a settlement in 2009 that directed the Agriculture Department to post certain data on its website related to research on animals.
American Express has no control over the application and / or approval process for Global Entry or TSA Pre ✓ ®, and does not have access to any information provided to the government by the Card Member or by the government to the Card Member.
To date, the government of Dominica, through the ministry of tourism and urban renewal, has invested over $ 3 million on restoration of access, rehabilitation and upgrading of sites, and clean - up of debris post Hurricane Maria.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the British government today (World Population Day) have been hosting a London Summit on Family Planning, aimed at expanding access to contraception and related health services for women, particularly in poor urban communities, who want more control over the size of their families.
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