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US exports DMCA in trade treaty
News In his letter to Congress on Tuesday, Bush said the Chile pact "provides for state-of-the-art intellectual property protection and recognises the importance of trade in the digital age by including significant commitments on trade in digital...
[July 16, 2003, 14:12]
US Congress wades into Internet control row
News In a letter to Commerce and State Department officials, the lawmakers said the Bush administration should retain strong oversight over the Internet domain name system, specifically the root servers that guide traffic to huge databases containing...
[October 10, 2005, 16:40]
Domain name price hikes attacked
News Representative Rick Boucher, a Virginia Democrat, urged the Bush administration in a letter earlier this year to examine the proposal carefully, saying it could have "serious anti-competitive implications.
[June 8, 2006, 8:40]
.XXX gets pulses racing
News The Bush administration is objecting to the creation of a .XXX domain, saying it has concerns about a virtual red-light district reserved exclusively for pornography. ICM Registry - the for-profit company in Florida that plans to operate the .XXX...
[August 16, 2005, 17:25]
Tech industry cheers Bush pick for DoJ
News Several members of the tech industry are cheering president-elect Bush's pick for attorney general, saying Republican John Ashcroft's hands-off approach to commerce could be a boon for business.However, some are less certain about Ashcroft's...
[January 5, 2001, 8:46]
US quarantines visa system after virus attack
News In a letter sent to Congress earlier this year, President Bush said Class contains about 13 million name records, which increases the State Department's ability to recognise individuals who might be a threat to national safety.
[September 25, 2003, 8:50]
Email answer to anthrax risk
News I wouldn't put it past him, but we don't have any hard evidence," Bush said to a group of reporters in Washington. On Monday, President Bush emphasised that he had "no hard data yet" linking the anthrax exposures and bin Laden.
[October 17, 2001, 8:53]
Marillion sought for McKinnon concert
Blog Comment I'm going to write a good old fashioned paper letter to Mr Bush seeing as he is not allowed any access to e-mail. Come to think of it, US presidents get to pardon people before they leave office. You can see what I'm getting at.
[November 23, 2008, 15:30]
US backs merging Net, phone numbers
News The Bush administration is lending its support to an international proposal to map telephone numbers to Internet addresses. In a recent internal letter, the Commerce Department recommended that the United States participate in an emerging...
[February 14, 2003, 7:42]
VoIP firms plead to keep phone tax exemption
News Chris Cox, a Republican from California, has sent a letter to President Bush asking him to "direct the IRS immediately to affirm that this 100-year-old tax does not apply to the Internet, but only to traditional analog voice services.
[September 30, 2004, 16:55]
.XXX porn domain may rise again
News A few weeks later, in August 2005, the Bush administration made a move unprecedented in ICANN's eight-year history by sending a letter saying: "The Department of Commerce has received nearly 6,000 letters and emails from individuals expressing...
[May 22, 2006, 10:50]
Belated objections may scupper US e-voting
News Diebold, which has deployed 33,000 touch-screen voting machines in the United States, first gained notoriety after its chief executive wrote in an August fund-raising letter that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to...
[December 8, 2003, 12:05]
Whois database 'contributes to identity theft'
News In September, the Bush administration ordered ICANN to improve the "accuracy of Whois data". More than 50 organisations from around the world signed a letter to Paul Twomey, chief executive of ICANN, asking for better protection of the personal...
[November 6, 2003, 12:00]
US cyber spies want more rights to snoop on foreigners
News However, Specter and the Bush administration have given repeated assurances the President will submit the programme he has publicly confirmed for review, if the bill passes in the precise form he wishes.
[July 27, 2006, 12:05]
Pentagon data-mining raises eyebrows
News The TIA project became public in early 2002 when President Bush chose Admiral John Poindexter, who had been embroiled in the Iran-Contra scandal, to run Darpa's Information Awareness Office. I remain very deeply concerned that TIA technology will...
[June 25, 2003, 13:37]
Efficient servers may get 'Energy Star'
News President George Bush signed a bill that urges Americans to buy energy-efficient servers, and the Department of Energy has begun trying to get involved in helping companies become more energy-efficient.
[January 2, 2007, 7:41]
US aims to bring down China's regulatory wall
News On Thursday, the Bush administration filed suit with the World Trade Organisation over the VAT. Recently, The Bush administration slightly relaxed its stance on the exportation of 130-nanometre semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China and...
[March 19, 2004, 14:45]
US casts doubt on EU's Microsoft decision
News The quiet protest from the Bush administration comes as concern is growing on Capitol Hill over the European Commission's penalties, which came after the Justice Department agreed to a consent decree that includes ongoing federal court oversight...
[March 31, 2004, 8:45]
US 'will not enforce' encryption laws
News US District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel in San Francisco threw out the case after the Bush administration said it would no longer try to enforce portions of the regulations, according to parties involved in the proceedings.
[October 16, 2003, 15:20]
US voices openness to private Net control
News The Bush administration took that position all the way to a world Internet summit in Tunisia last November. A number of the responses consisted of a two-paragraph form letter that urged the United States to "work cooperatively with all stakeholders...
[July 27, 2006, 16:20]
