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Beyond ACTA and SOPA: Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

Posted February 3, 2012 - 10:39 am

Secret meetings held in Hollywood to extend copyright legislation to device memory buffers.
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Senate to consider cybersecurity overhaul

Posted January 18, 2012 - 9:08 pm

Majority leader Harry Reid is poised to bring long-debated cybersecurity legislation to floor in hopes of broad bipartisan support, according to comments from his senior aide at the State of the Net conference.
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Issa introduces SOPA alternative in the House

Posted January 18, 2012 - 8:00 pm

Lawmakers opposing the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act have introduced alternative legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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SOPA and PIPA video cheat sheet

Posted January 18, 2012 - 10:16 am

In case you've been too watching cat videos or playing Skyrim, here are some quick videos that explain SOPA and PIPA so you can sound smarter at the water cooler.
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FAQ: SOPA and PIPA

Posted January 18, 2012 - 9:31 am

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) have been making headlines, but what are they, exactly? Here are the facts.
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'Hysteria-busting' FAQ shows no-trial terrorist detention rules just as bad as you thought

Posted December 21, 2011 - 1:19 pm

One non-partisan analyst tries do defuse tension over detention-without-trial rules in 2012 military budget. Instead, the facts support most of the worst fears about the new law, but highlight a weakness: bad laws can be challenged and overturned; bad policy can't.
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Dutch parliament deals bitter blow to online advertisers, web publishers

Posted June 22, 2011 - 3:20 pm

Will web publishers flee The Netherlands now that they're required to get permission to place cookies on users' PCs?
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New legislation and rising confidence create encouraging outlook for small business sector

Posted December 1, 2010 - 9:11 pm

With the ink still damp on the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, small business owners are already feeling more confident as this difficult year draws to a close.
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Kill bill: Senator's opposition effectively squashes proposed online copyright law

Posted November 19, 2010 - 6:42 pm

One day after the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a bill that would give the federal government power to shut down websites it deems to be engaging in copyright infringement -- without having to first prove it -- a Democratic senator said he intends to stop the legislation in its tracks (at least for this year).
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Caller ID Spoofing Ban is Bad for Business

Posted April 20, 2010 - 9:23 am

The Truth in Caller ID Act of 2010 may impact otherwise legitimate uses of caller ID spoofing.
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Federal government hosts Q&A on health insurance reform law

Posted March 31, 2010 - 9:12 am

Hear the official word in a live session with Kathleen Sebelius and Small Business Administrator Karen Mills
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Opinion: P2P law would do nothing but make Congress feel good

Posted October 7, 2009 - 2:46 pm

In response to some incidents in which peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing caused sensitive information to show up on computers that it shouldn't be on, Congress reasonably decided to hold hearings in anticipation of actions it might take that would prevent future compromises. Unfortunately, one of the actions that Congress has taken is to consider passage of the most useless law imaginable.
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Lawmakers eye bill to make P2P file-sharing safer

Posted September 29, 2009 - 3:31 pm

The House Committee on Commerce and Energy will hold a markup hearing Wednesday on a bill designed to make it safer for consumers to use peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing software.
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Cerf: Turning off pieces of the 'Net 'not sensible'

Posted September 18, 2009 - 8:22 am

In an exclusive interview, the Internet 'father' explains how he helped commercialize the Web and what he's doing now at Google.
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U.S. Expands H-1B Fraud Case Against N.J. Firm

Posted September 8, 2009 - 8:42 am

The U.S. government has filed a new, expanded indictment against a New Jersey IT services firm that prosecutors say fraudulently used H-1B visas to reap millions of dollars from reduced employee wages.
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Open source bias cheered, booed in planned EC rules review

Posted July 6, 2009 - 1:19 pm

Industry groups criticized and praised on Monday what they consider is a bias in favor of open source software in the European Commission's plans to update the rules governing industry standard technologies.
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Network shutdown bill faces changes, aide says

Posted June 26, 2009 - 7:53 pm

A bill in the U.S. Senate that would allow President Barack Obama to shut down parts of the Internet during a cybersecurity crisis will likely be rewritten and needs input from private businesses, said a congressional staff member associated with the legislation.
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FCC to probe exclusive mobile handset deals

Posted June 19, 2009 - 12:21 pm

The FCC will open an inquiry into harm caused to consumers by exclusive handset deals between mobile carriers and handset makers.
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IRS now wants to repeal cell phone tax

Posted June 16, 2009 - 7:47 pm

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is now recommending that a complicated law that would tax personal usage of business cell phones be repealed, after the agency caused an uproar last week with attempts to simplify the law.
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Real ID opposition sparks revisions to national driver's license standard

Posted June 15, 2009 - 7:55 pm

Widespread opposition to a 2005 bill designed to create a national standard for driver's licenses has prompted a revised version of the bill that no longer contains its most controversial provisions.
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New coalition pushes for 'big' broadband

Posted June 11, 2009 - 1:55 pm

Schools, libraries and health-care providers in the U.S. need broadband speeds of 100M bps to 1G bps in order to adequately serve their customers' needs, according to a new coalition pushing for "big" broadband for those organizations.
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French court to pirates: Three strikes and ... then what?

Posted June 11, 2009 - 8:31 am

France's highest legal authority has ruled as unconstitutional a government plan to cut off, without trial, Internet users accused of copyright infringement.
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Poll: US people unsure of future of innovation

Posted June 8, 2009 - 4:16 pm

About seven in 10 U.S. residents believe the next great technology entrepreneur will come from somewhere else, according to a new poll.
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US: H-1B workers outnumber unemployed techies

Posted May 27, 2009 - 8:13 am

As unemployment among tech workers increases with the recession, the U.S. government is raising broad questions as part of a federal case over H-1Bs about the connection of visa fraud to the unemployment of IT workers.
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Seven AGs call on Craigslist to show plan to prevent racy ads

Posted May 26, 2009 - 4:02 pm

While a judge in South Carolina last week moved to quiet the heated debate between Craigslist and the state's attorney general, the top legal officers from seven other states today called on the Web site to outline its plan to keep prostitution advertising off its pages.
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