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US lawmakers seek power to shut down foreign sites

Senators in the US have proposed a bill to give the Department of Justice powers to shut down foreign sites accused of illegal file-sharing Read more

21 September, 2010 by Greg Sandoval

SOPA anti-piracy bill stalls after DNS blow

US lawmakers have removed a provision of the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act... Read more

16 January, 2012

US senate to vote on Protect IP bill in January

US lawmakers will debate a bill to protect copyright upon their return in... Read more

20 December, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

US Congress probes iOS app makers over privacy

...in Washington to discuss the company's privacy policies regarding mobile devices, US lawmakers have turned their attention to developers of third-party applications for... Read more

23 March, 2012 by Josh Lowensohn
US politicians put SOPA on hold

US politicians put SOPA on hold

...The Stop Online Piracy Act has officially been put on hold by US lawmakers, it was announced on Friday. US reprentative Lamar Smith said that... Read more

23 January, 2012 by Don Reisinger

Copyright enforcement organisation found torrenting

...and sister organisation the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) have lobbied US lawmakers to introduce legislation to let the government shut down websites that... Read more

19 December, 2011

Google's Schmidt takes antitrust fire in Washington

...Google's chairman Eric Schmidt testified in front of US lawmakers in Washington DC on Wednesday as he answered charges that the... Read more

22 September, 2011 by Greg Sandoval

Apple, Google face US Senate questions over privacy

...to appear again in Washington, DC on Thursday to answer questions from US lawmakers in a new hearing that will also include Facebook. The topic... Read more

17 May, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

Jobs says Apple will testify over iPhone location tracking

...cell tower, Wi-Fi and GPS information, Apple was questioned by prominent US lawmakers over the company's intentions. Apple responded to the matter publicly... Read more

28 April, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

Nasa prepares for potential US government shutdown

...official said. A stopgap spending bill expires at midnight on Friday. If US lawmakers do not agree on compromise funding for the rest of fiscal... Read more

8 April, 2011 by William Harwood
A decade of tech scandals

A decade of tech scandals

...Five years ago, Yahoo was denounced by US lawmakers and human rights groups after the web portal turned over information... Read more

27 November, 2010 by Staff

Google and Verizon offer net neutrality proposal

...the two companies and in a legislative framework proposal document sent to US lawmakers. In what Google and Verizon called a "principled compromise", the companies... Read more

10 August, 2010 by David Meyer

US lawmakers worry RFID will hurt privacy

California's legislators will meet later this month to address privacy issues surrounding radio frequency identification tags Read more

12 August, 2003 by Alorie Gilbert

US lawmakers reject changes to digital copyright law

A report commissioned by the US Congress concludes that the digital transmission of work would interfere with a copyright holder's exclusive right to reproduction Read more

10 September, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

Analysis: US lawmakers in Web-regulating frenzy

Tennessee lawmakers are pushing a bill that would tag porn sites with specific domain names to warn parents of their... Read more

31 March, 1998 by Lisa M Bowman

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