"We're the only city that has a city center airport where tourists and business people can fly right to within walking distance of the major venues, " said John Morand of the Toronto Harbor Commission.

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Operators participating in a Commission-approved safe-harbor program may use any consent method approved by the program.

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Promptly after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt created a high-powered commission, headed by Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts, to investigate how such a catastrophic surprise attack could have occurred.

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As a result, perhaps as soon as later this month, but more probably in September, Commissioner Bolkestein will propose that the full Commission formally recognize the U.S. safe harbor principles as representing adequate data privacy standards, the official said.

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The FTC seeks to strengthen its oversight of the approved self-regulatory "safe harbor programs" by requiring them to audit their members and report annually to the Commission the aggregated results of those audits.

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In January 2003 the Microsoft SQL Server worm, known as Slammer, infected a private computer network at David-Besse nuclear power plant in Oak Harbor, Ohio, disabling a safety monitoring system for nearly five hours, says the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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Earlier this year, the Commission reached an agreement with the U.S. that a system based on safe harbor principles did represent adequate levels of data privacy, after the U.S. administration agreed to reinforce consumer access rights and set up dispute settlement procedures for consumers.

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