Federal and state laws and regulations

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This week’s blog will focus on relevant federal and state laws and regulations within government in preparing trust from agencies and developing strategies to who things and people accountable. Every organization has rules and regulations that must be taken serious and necessary to abide by all rules. When setting up laws and regulations there always has to be a beginning/framework that protects information and citizens. These ideas have been beneficial because it stops illegal activities that may exist as we have seen many times throughout our government. Understanding regulations and laws is something that citizens have to invest their time to gain the knowledge needed to be relevant when the time presents itself.

Within the United States, five sources consist of constitutional law, statutory law, treaties, administrative regulations and the common law which play a major part in society. We all know that federal laws take place in Congress as well for regulations getting approved and state laws plan the same role. E-Governance/E-Government have to protect themselves at all time from lawsuits that may exist from error from the technology and the people who oversee it. E-government is predicated on leveraging the capabilities and power of IT to deliver services provided by governments at local, municipal, state, and national levels (Grant and Chau, 2015).

New technologies have become the transaction of fostering a shift change in how we use information and process data. As you look at Wall Street, it has so many laws and regulations because of the corruption such as fraud, insider trading, etc., because having these types of avenues implemented can help with security, privacy, and data. E-Government itself deals with information that requires security and privacy of personal and governmental agencies. As I research information and look at articles to help justify what is being given to the world, its important keep growing as technology grows. Fjermestad and Romano (2007) stated: "that security can be interpreted in the symbolic meaning referring to any illegal activity or any unfortunate casualty" (p.66). The main purpose is to prevent and maintain stability at levels of government and other organizations.

         Technology will continue to transform how we view government functionality and the communication with society. An example of how the government controls regulation just look at how it shut down the mergers between AT&T/T-Mobile and Comcast/Verizon over the past few years because they want to give smaller independent companies a fair shake with customers. FTC (Federal Trade Commission) is relevant to e-Governance based on the decision help citizens such as the telemarketers making their numbers known on caller ids. Without regulations and laws then a lot of illegal practice would continue.