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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...
Article | 6/03/2013 Activist launches campaign to change the DMCA
The author of a successful White House petition calling on government officials to legalize the unlocking of mobile phones has turned his attention to...
Article | 4/03/2013 White House: Unlocking mobile phones should be legal
U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has sided with more than 100,000 petition signers who asked the government to legalize the unlocking of s...
Article | 20/02/2013 Petition asks Obama to legalize unlocking of mobile phones
More than 85,000 people have signed a Whitehouse.gov petition asking U.S. President Barack Obama to reverse a decision by the Library of Congress maki...
Article | 8/01/2013 US Library of Congress saving 500 million tweets per day in archives
The U.S. Library of Congress is now storing 500 million tweets per day as part of its efforts to build a Twitter archive, and has added a total of abo...
Article | 26/10/2012 iPhone jailbreaking still legal in US, but don't meddle with an iPad
Modifying Apple's iPhone software to install applications not approved by Apple will still be legal under new exemptions to take effect on Sunday in t...