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- Who is protecting your electronic rights?
- Materials provided to the Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF indicate that in 2006, the FBI received access to e-mail from an entire computer network instead of the single e-mail address that was approved by a secret intelligence court as a part of a national security investigation. From the...
- Tags: Law, Majority, Problem, U.S. Congress, Bush, E-mail, Government, Vertical Industries, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Tricia Liebert
- Blog posts 2008-02-18
- What my grandmother taught me about IT security
- The Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act of 2007 passed the Senate by unanimous consent. As is often the case in our nation's legislature, the two houses of the federal legislature -- the House of Representatives and the Senate -- are working at roughly redundant purposes, and have each...
- Tags: Cybercrime, IT Security, Information Technology, U.S. Congress, Lesson, Data Security, NIST, Key, House, Dual_EC_DRBG, NSA, Government, Identity Theft, Security, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Chad Perrin
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- Should the United States control the Internet?
- Next week in Brazil, a group of 2,000 businessmen, government workers, and concerned citizens will meet to talk about the future of the Internet. Though the forum was supposed to focus on spam, free speech, and cheaper Net access, it appears that there will be a lot of talk...
- Tags: U.S., ICANN, U.S. Congress, Internet, Andy Moon
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- Yahoo! accused of lying to the Congress
- Compromising privacy is business?China is ‘complex’ business territory, but is that an excuse for blatant violation of user privacy?
- Tags: pr.arun@..., U.S. Congress, Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-07
- Yahoo accused of lying to Congress
- Executives from Yahoo faced a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing for providing false information relating to the company's role in disclosing a former journalist's identity that led to his arrest. In clear cut language, committee chairman, Tom Lantos, lambasted Yahoo General Counsel, Michael Callahan, with "inexcusably...
- Tags: China, Yahoo! Inc., U.S. Congress, E-mail, Online Communications, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-11-07
- Congress is working to make electronic surveillance more pervasive
- A U.S. Senate committee has forwarded a bill to the Senate Judiciary Committee that would give the NSA broad powers to conduct electronic surveillance, particularly with regards to electronic mail and instant message traffic. In addition, the bill would retroactively immunize telecommunications providers who, between 9/11/01 and the date...
- Tags: Surveillance, Wired Inc., IM, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, NSA, E-mail, Instant Messaging, Blogging, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Online Communications, Internet, Andy Moon
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
- Congress is working to make electronic surveillance more pervasive
- Oversight already exists for such programs.It's called the Constitution of the United States of America.RE: Retroactively making companies immune to litigation for illegally providing any government agency with information...Do we really want to set this kind of precedence? Does anyone really think we should let the government break the...
- Tags: Litigation, U.S. Congress, Andy Moon, Constitution
- Discussion threads 2007-10-22
- America's plans for a hasty and complete withdrawal from Iraq
- Sorry folks, I cannot give you the URL for this article because it requires membership and password to access at foreignpolicy.com. So you don't get to see the pretty pictures that accompany the article.Assuming the article is true -- I can't locate it at snopes -- then obviously America has...
- Tags: Construction, jardinier, U.S. Congress, diplomacy, embassy
- Discussion threads 2007-09-20
- Last minute reprieve for Internet radio
- The Congress on Thursday heard of an unexpected last minute reprieve for Internet radio, so that the drain on corporate bandwidth will continue if not firewalled out. Internet radio now pays only songwriting royalties. Sound Exchange convinced the U. S. Copyright Office to cede to it the...
- Tags: Internet Radio, Radio, U.S. Congress, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, John Bartley K7AAY
- Blog posts 2007-07-13
- [i]Congress shall enact no law . . . . .
- [i][b].....that does not apply equally to all Americans. [/i][/b]- Nobel Laureate economist/philosopher Friedrich A. Hayek when asked if he could propose one law that would restore, promote and preserve liberty in our country the USA, what would that law be? If this "law" were to become the 28th Amendment to...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, U.S. Congress, maxwell edison
- Discussion threads 2007-06-28
- Call it the green Supreme Court
- Why on an IT "tech" site......do we keep getting these Democratic Party talking-point stories that have practially nothing to do with IT?The Other Side of the CoinContrary to popular news reports, there is a large body of scientific evidence that indicates global warming is not caused by human activity.If you're...
- Tags: turbinepilot, information technology, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2007-04-11
- Women caught in wringer between Congress and inferior mammogram technology
- If true, sounds like someone got their lobbying money's worthIf true, sounds like someone got their lobbying money's worth.Help save more boobs...support early breast cancer detectionBeing a guy, the best part of a woman are her breasts in my opinion, as they serve mutiple purposes and define a woman's sexuality...
- Tags: george_ou@..., U.S. Congress, women
- Discussion threads 2007-04-05
- Women caught in wringer between Congress and inferior mammogram technology
- About three weeks ago, I had my very first baseline mammogram. My OB/GYN recommended that I select a location that offered digital imaging, and so I did. Had I read this news story beforehand, however, I may have reconsidered and elected a more traditional mammogram. Check it out: "Report: Computers hinder mammogram readings." Dr....
- Tags: Women, U.S. Congress, Health Care, Computer, Hall, Productivity, Sonja Thompson
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- Real ID is bad? Compared to what?
- Real ID is bad...* Because it's another unfunded federal mandate pushed onto the states. Congress loves to pass these kind of laws; makes them look like they are doing something, and they don't have to spend any money. Let people get mad at the states, who have to raise taxes...
- Tags: acalford, RFID, Real-ID
- Discussion threads 2007-04-05
- Gore takes global warming fight to Congress
- The "inconvenient truth" is......that Al Gore and his hyperbole is a fraud, and in the long run, he's going to do far more harm for the environment than good. The biggest threat to the environment is poverty, and his enviro-economic agenda virtually guarantees that for most Americans and virtually...
- Tags: U.S. Congress, JohnMcGrew@..., global warming
- Discussion threads 2007-03-22
- Sick and Tired.
- As I think of the posts I have made on this site alone not to mention the other sites I frequent, to say that I am not a big fan of George Bush is probably a gross understatement.Now, having said that, I can't take it any longer. I have...
- Tags: Inkling, Gonzales, U.S. Senate, initial reaction, U.S. Congress, dismissal, White House
- Discussion threads 2007-03-20
- Berners-Lee pushes Congress on 'nondiscriminatory' Web
- Berner's- Lee 1 Bono 0 in Game 1I think Bono's defense of DRM and Berners-Lee's quick retort to it: equivalency to "having to slam on your brakes" instead of "slowing down to 55 mph" gives Tim this game. Berners-Lee's more pragmatic approach: lets see what people will do if...
- Tags: Games, U.S. Congress, Web, johnstont@..., Berners-Lee, Bono
- Discussion threads 2007-03-13
- Martial Law
- Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...http://www.downsizedc.org/blog/2007/mar/09/didnt_know_that_was_in_the_bill Here is an excerpt from the blog: "However, with the inclusion of a seemingly insignificant rider into the massive def
- Tags: politics, off-topic, U.S. Congress, Inkling, G.W.
- Discussion threads 2007-03-09
- Gates calls for 'infinite' H-1Bs, better schools
- not again, same song, 97th verse.....And just why do you suppose it is that US universities are not turning out enough computer scientists? Because there's no career path there! And why is that? Because Bill and buddies have been lobbying
- Tags: software, career, outsourcing, programming, foreign workers, labor, U.S. Congress, robinsys, H-1B, job, worker
- Discussion threads 2007-03-08
- Attorney general to talk data retention with new Congress
- In other news,Attorney General Alberto Gonzales insisted today that poor infants should be used as after-dinner snacks for Republican campaign contributors."How are oil company executives expected to feed themselves on only $400 million a year? It is critical that these pillars of society be able to seek tax loopholes with...
- Tags: Alberto Gonzales, nighthawk808, off-topic, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2007-01-19
