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Article | 11/04/2013 US Congress panel approves Internet freedom bill
A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee has voted to approve a bill that would make it official U.S. policy to promote an Internet "free from gov...
Article | 11/04/2013 Critics: CISPA still a government surveillance bill
A U.S. House of Representatives committee failed to make the changes necessary to allay fears about government surveillance in a controversial cyberth...
Article | 10/04/2013 Critics question wording of Internet freedom bill
Legislation that would make it official U.S. policy to promote a global Internet "free from government control" could restrict the U.S. Federal Commun...
Article | 10/04/2013 EU watchdog: Data collection can't fly under 'user experience' flag
“Improving users' experience” is not justification for using consumer information in Big Data projects according to Europe's top data protection offic...
Article | 5/04/2013 Lawmakers to again push Internet freedom resolution
U.S. lawmakers want to make it clear that they're against a takeover of the Internet by the U.N.'s International Telecommunication Union and member go...
Article | 3/04/2013 Privacy group calls for changes in CISPA cyberthreat sharing bill
U.S. lawmakers need to make significant changes to a controversial cyberthreat information sharing bill because the legislation could be used to give ...
Article | 2/04/2013 Six European privacy regulators launch formal investigations of Google's privacy policy
Six European data protection authorities will conduct formal investigations of Google's privacy policy after the company repeatedly rejected their req...
Article | 26/03/2013 Activists decry computer crime proposal
A proposal in the U.S. Congress to strengthen the penalties in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is a "giant leap in the wrong direction" for digital r...
Article | 23/03/2013 US senate passes Internet sales tax proposal
The US Senate has overwhelmingly passed a nonbinding proposal to allow states to collect sales tax on Internet sellers that have no presence within th...
Article | 21/03/2013 Senators add Internet sales tax amendment to budget resolution
A group of U.S. senators have offered a nonbinding amendment to a fiscal year 2014 budget resolution allowing states to collect sales taxes on Interne...
Article | 21/03/2013 Bills would require police to get warrants for mobile phone location
A group of U.S. lawmakers has introduced legislation that would require law enforcement agencies to get court-ordered search warrants before obtaining...
Article | 19/03/2013 Lawmakers call for greater protections from e-surveillance
If U.S. law enforcement agencies agree to changes in electronic surveillance law to better protect the privacy of stored email and documents, they wan...
Article | 14/03/2013 Tech companies tell Congress to target patent trolls
The U.S. Congress needs to shut down so-called patent trolls whose infringement lawsuits are diverting company resources from hiring and research, a g...
Article | 13/03/2013 Lawmakers: Tougher computer hacking laws may be needed
The U.S. Congress may need to create stiffer penalties for criminal computer hacking to deter the growing number of attacks on U.S. government agencie...
Article | 12/03/2013 Third mobile-phone-unlocking bill introduced
Momentum is growing in the U.S. Congress to overturn a U.S. Library of Congress ruling that took mobile phone unlocking out of the legal exemptions to...