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US Congress ignites Net filter fight
News In the past, the ACLU has successfully blocked free-speech threatening amendments that had been attached to appropriations bills, including the Communications Decency Act. Schools and libraries that receive federal funds will find new strings...
[December 19, 2000, 15:10]
Red Hat must wait for SCO ruling
Talkback Finally, IBM's latest amendments to its counterclaims cover essentially all the issues that Redhat raised in its suit. Judge Robinson ruled that Redhat had a case against SCOG that should proceed toward trial.
[April 11, 2004, 22:34]
Proxy war darkens HP-Compaq merger
News The family has been regularly filing amendments to its 16 November proxy statement. Walter Hewlett has fired off another round in his budding proxy war with Hewlett-Packard, this time highlighting the poor performance of HP and Compaq Computer...
[December 6, 2001, 6:31]
Police slammed for 'hysterical' response to EU privacy directive
News NCIS is pitching a reverse of the truth by claiming that amendments to this Directive will change the status quo," said Bowden. The National Crime Intelligence Squad (NCIS) last week issued what Caspar Bowden, director of the Foundation for...
[August 13, 2001, 12:52]
Government power over cryptography dented by Lords
News The Bill will receive its third reading in the Lords next Wednesday and campaigners are concerned that amendments to the Bill do not go far enough. An amendment that would significantly limit government powers to access encryption keys was defeated...
[July 14, 2000, 15:32]
ICO urges gov't to retain data-theft laws
News Thomas said in a statement: "There has been widespread support for the government's decision to strengthen the law and — if data protection is to be taken seriously — it is vital the government and other parties should stand firm against any...
[April 2, 2008, 9:30]
Anti-piracy bill may hit consumers
News A few weeks later, Biden introduced a bill titled the "Anticounterfeiting Amendments of 2002. After the 59-year old Delaware Democrat took over the Foreign Relations committee last year, the software and entertainment industries enlisted him in...
[July 30, 2002, 6:27]
Xerox, Microsoft unveil tech plans
News Instead of photocopying thousands of pieces of paper containing amendments to bills and other information -- and then delivering them by foot to each lawmaker -- a page of the legislature floor showed how he ran the paper documents through a Xerox...
[May 19, 1999, 7:54]
California juggles anti-spam bills
News While both bills would fine spammers, Bowen warned that late amendments to Murray's bill would force spam recipients to prove "actual damages," while hers would assign fines of $500 per unsolicited email.
[July 3, 2003, 11:49]
Government web-monitoring plans on hold
Blog This data sharing would be enabled by amendments to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. Government plans to compel ISPs to process and store details of all web communications have been put on hold until after the next election.
[November 18, 2009, 16:39]
A Year Ago: Briton accused of Middle Eastern hacking
News Bu Melha added that the case highlights the need for amendments to the country's criminal law. A British man has been arrested and charged with computer hacking in the United Arab Emirates after allegedly breaking into the country's...
[June 26, 2001, 6:06]
Briton accused of Middle Eastern hacking
News Bu Melha added that the case highlights the need for amendments to the country's criminal law. A British man has been arrested and charged with computer hacking in the United Arab Emirates after allegedly breaking into the country's...
[June 26, 2000, 10:05]
Blind man faces prosecution for listening to child porn
News The Protection of Children Act 1978 initially made it illegal to produce photos of children being sexually abused, whilst the Criminal Justice and Public Order Amendments in 1994 expanded this definition to deal with pseudo images of child...
[June 25, 2001, 18:24]
Tuesday
Blog On top of last week's business of allowing the record companies to hack into your computer and destroy anything they don't like, we now see the Anticounterfeiting Amendments of 2002, a bill presented to the US Senate.
[August 5, 2002, 11:18]
US presses ahead with patent reforms
News The bills were identical when they were unveiled with some fanfare at a press conference back in April but are now slightly different, thanks to various amendments. The US patent system transformation long sought by hi-tech industry players like...
[July 23, 2007, 9:22]
Misleading URLs may become illegal
News The House Rules committee on Tuesday adopted a procedure that permits both amendments, and six others, to be considered during debate over an unrelated bill to create an "Amber Alert" notification network for child kidnapping cases.
[March 27, 2003, 10:12]
Europe moves to monitor all Internet traffic
News However, the new proposals go much further and would require changes to the data protection and privacy directives, as well as demanding massive amendments to the telecommunications directive currently being reviewed by the European Parliament.
[May 17, 2001, 7:48]
EP: 'Patent directive is flawed'
News The JURI committee will vote on Rocard's proposed amendments on 20 June. JURI, the legal affairs committee of the European Parliament, agreed on Monday that the directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions includes serious...
[May 24, 2005, 18:00]
Snoopers' charter - changes are not enough
News Richard Clayton, advisor to the Foundation for Information Policy Research -- which has led the fight against RIP -- believes a lot of the amendments -- particularly the controversial part III which deals with seizure of encryption keys -- are...
[June 28, 2000, 16:22]
Word blunder reveals government terror doubts
News Joe Fantuzzi, chief executive of document management firm Workshare, said today's gaffe is just the latest example of how changes and amendments which get saved into a document's meta data can come back to haunt the sender.
[September 17, 2005, 11:05]
