New Guidelines for data handling in the US

Dear all, 

an article from the Washington Post that talks about the introduction of new 
measures to prevent massive loss of data by loss of laptops. It seems that 
organizations have to use encryption now (why didn't they before?):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/27/AR2006062700540.html

Best, 
-- 
Rigo Wenning            W3C/ERCIM
Staff Counsel           Privacy Activity Lead
mail:rigo@w3.org        2004, Routes des Lucioles
http://www.w3.org/      F-06902 Sophia Antipolis