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Article | 14/05/2013 Court orders names to be withheld before release of Aaron Swartz records
A U.S. federal court has modified a protective order to allow disclosure of the court records of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, but ruled that names ...
Article | 13/05/2013 Survey: US residents oppose Internet sales tax
The U.S. Senate has, by a wide margin, supported a bill allowing an Internet sales tax, but the legislation appears to be a tougher sell to the public...
Article | 9/05/2013 Obama plays up 3D printing's military applications under new manufacturing plans
3D printing has been attracting more attention in recent months as a tool to create gadgets, toys and miniature works of art. Now President Barack Oba...
Article | 9/05/2013 US lawmakers introduce apps privacy bill
New legislation introduced by a group of U.S. lawmakers would require mobile application developers to obtain consent from consumers before collecting...
Article | 9/05/2013 FCC moves toward new airplane broadband service
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has taken a major step toward helping more airlines offer in-cabin wireless broadband, with the agency voti...
Article | 9/05/2013 Obama administration expands open data access
U.S. President Barack Obama has signed an executive order requiring that government data be made available in open, machine-readable formats, expandin...
Article | 9/05/2013 California may outlaw 3-D printed guns
Proposed legislation in California aims to ban guns made using 3-D printing, after an organization Defense Distributed fired a handgun made with the t...
Article | 8/05/2013 San Francisco axes cellphone warning law in settlement with CTIA
San Francisco killed its cellphone radiation warning law on Tuesday by agreeing to settle a lawsuit by the mobile industry group CTIA.
Article | 8/05/2013 Study: US military too reliant on foreign-made equipment
The U.S. military's reliance on foreign-made products, including telecommunications equipment and semiconductors, is putting the nation's security at ...
Article | 8/05/2013 Senators want sanctions against countries supporting cyberattacks
Two U.S. senators will push Congress or President Barack Obama's administration to pursue trade and immigration sanctions against China and other coun...
Article | 8/05/2013 Proposed U.S. law aims to counter cybertheft with import bans
A bill proposed in the U.S. Senate aims to block imports of products containing U.S. technology stolen online, a move that appears primarily directed ...
Article | 7/05/2013 Syria 'disappears' from the Internet, security firm says
Internet traffic to and from Syria, which is in the midst of a civil war, appears to have dried up.
Article | 7/05/2013 Caesars Palace deals Google Glass out of its game
A year before Google's futuristic-looking, computerized eyeglasses are even expected to hit the market, they have been banned -- again.
Article | 7/05/2013 FTC sends warning letters to 10 data brokers
More than 20 percent of data brokers checked by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission allegedly violated a U.S. privacy law when sharing personal data wit...
Article | 6/05/2013 US Senate approves Internet sales tax
The U.S. Senate has voted to allow states to collect sales tax from online retailers, making it more difficult to buy tax-free products online.