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SOPA gets a hearing
John Moe Nov 14, 2011
The controversial Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA will be the sole subject of a House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. SOPA is the House version of the Senate’s Protect IP act which got strangled by Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) who echoed the views of many in the tech industry that the measure gave law enforcement far too much power in shutting down websites that are suspected of trafficking in unlicensed content...
Regulation tries to catch up with cloud computing technology. All together now: "Good luck, regulation!"
John Moe Sep 20, 2011
Politico's Tony Romm reports on efforts in Congress to figure out which laws apply and which new laws need to be created to keep up with the push...
House Democrats urge settlement on AT&T-Mobile
John Moe Sep 16, 2011
15 Democrats in the House have sent a letter to President Obama urging the administration to find some way to make the proposed Big Acquisition go...
New data security bill introduced in the Senate
Steve Henn Jul 29, 2011
I'm not sure how anyone in Congress has any time to do anything but try to figure out how to get a debt crisis deal done, but apparently, they do....
NSA & cell phone tracking
Steve Henn Jul 27, 2011
This guy say you don't need to join a hacker collective before federal agents can follow your trail in cyber space....
Game On!
Steve Henn Jul 26, 2011
Google searches about NFL teams and tickets spiked today after the league's owners and players came to an agreement to end the lockout. ...
Head of country's cyber agency resigns
Steve Henn Jul 26, 2011
The Department of Defense doesn't want to talk about why Randy Vickers resigned as director of the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team. US- CERT...
Flaws in the purposed anti-child pornography bill leave it stalled in Congress
John Moe Jul 13, 2011
As the Wall Street Journal puts it, "You might not expect to find many politicians willing to take a stand against something called the "Protecting...
Companies are not following their own Do-Not-Track policies
John Moe Jul 13, 2011
That's according to a recent study from Stanford's Center for Internet and Society. While Congress wrestles with online privacy legislation, the...
Congress holds privacy hearing
John Moe Jul 12, 2011
Reps. Mary Bono Mack (R-Calif.) and Greg Walden (R-Ore.) of the House Energy and Commerce committee start a series of Internet privacy hearings on...
