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Senate won't quiz telcos about NSA spying
News Arlen Specter said that after discussions with the Bush administration and Senate Intelligence Committee colleagues who had been more fully briefed on the National Security Agency programme, he was "prepared to defer on a temporary basis...
[June 7, 2006, 11:00]
US Report: Senate passes CDA II, filtering measure
News The Senate passed legislation to ban the open display of sexually explicit materials judged "harmful to minors" on the Internet. It was the first time the Senate had passed such legislation since a similar measure was struck down as...
[July 24, 1998, 10:33]
Hackers deface US Senate, challenge FBI
News Senate site late Thursday, replacing the front page with a blunt message to the FBI -- "FBI vs. The hacked site was quickly taken down and senate.gov is currently offline. The senate.gov hack comes hard on the heels of two other high-profile hack...
[May 28, 1999, 8:41]
Net neutrality fight returns to Senate
News The political tussle over net neutrality shifted back to the Senate's turf on Tuesday, taking centre stage at the last public hearing before a mammoth communications bill goes up for a preliminary vote.
[June 14, 2006, 10:40]
US Senate rejects extra funds for ID cards
News Action by a divided US Senate on Thursday raises new questions about the fate of a contentious plan to outfit Americans with new digital identification cards by 2013. The Senate also agreed unanimously to adopt an amendment, proposed by vocal Real...
[July 30, 2007, 13:05]
US Senate reins in ID card act
News The US Senate took a preliminary step on Wednesday towards reining in the controversial Real ID Act, which is scheduled to become America's first federal identification card in a few years. This was a real victory for Montana and the American...
[June 28, 2007, 12:33]
Italian Senate hit by hack attack
News The Italian Senate has been the subject of a hack attack by cybercriminals who uploaded images of gay porn onto screens all around the senate building. Firstly there was the debacle when Rocco Butiglione, Italy's candidate for European Union...
[November 24, 2004, 16:00]
US Report: Senate bill would lift bans on overseas crypto
News There will finally be a vehicle in the Senate which is pro-encryption," he said. "There's no mistake about it. This is strong privacy medicine," said Alan Davidson, an attorney and policy specialist with the Centre for Democracy and Technology.
[May 12, 1998, 11:51]
US Report: Senate passes Net tax ban
News But before it can be sent to him, the bill must be reconciled with the House version, which contains none of the amendments added by the Senate. The Tax Freedom Act garnered support from a broad coalition of industry groups and anti-tax activists...
[October 9, 1998, 10:42]
Napster fury fills the Senate
News But that proposal was met with some scepticism from the committee's top Democrat, Patrick Leahy of Vermont, who said that "many in the Senate and in the House, for that matter, feel that we don't want to.jumpstart things with a compulsory licence".
[April 4, 2001, 9:01]
US Senate restarts .XXX debate
News Plans to create an Internet red-light district would be revived under a new US Senate proposal. On Thursday, two Senate Democrats, Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Max Baucus of Montana, introduced a bill called the "Cyber Safety for Kids
[March 20, 2006, 8:35]
US Senate restarts .XXX debate
Talkback Yes to the mandatory .XXX urls! Speaking as a quivering U.S.porn webmaster, it would be the best thing since glossy print! Please, please, pleaaaase, please Mr Baucus and Mr Pryor, make my sites diiiiiirty again!
[March 20, 2006, 15:45]
US Senate restarts .XXX debate
Talkback I have the strongest opinion that all the porn items and sites must be completely stopped or the access to these sites must be restricted like saudi arabia
[March 21, 2006, 6:10]
US Senate restarts .XXX debate
Talkback but that will only work if the server is registered in the US, otherwise they just have to move the server off shore and what can the US do about it then?
[March 21, 2006, 8:50]
US Report: Tech visa bill dies in Senate as session ends
News The bill, approved by the Senate last week, implements the provisions of two international treaties adopted by the World Intellectual Property Organisation in 1996. The bill to temporarily double the current number of H1B visas issued to skilled...
[October 13, 1998, 10:08]
Net neutrality fight returns to Senate
Talkback Imagine high roads on which certain car owners may travel on reserved lanes at 160mph while one lane to the left or right masses of other cars are driving at 80mph. In short: accidents waiting to happen and loads of traffic jams.
[June 14, 2006, 23:51]
US Senate restarts .XXX debate
Talkback Ok so i know this article is a bit old however I feel that commenting on it now is as appropriate as ever. I don't know what people are thinking but it seems to me that the opossition of the conservitives and bible beaters to the formation of a dot...
[August 7, 2006, 18:42]
Hacker Mitnick testifies before Senate
News And this computer was in his home and it was in the UK, in England, and I was unable to circumvent the security in that system because I didn't have control of BT [British Telecom (quote: BT)]," Mitnick told the Senate Governmental Affairs...
[March 3, 2000, 9:25]
US Report: High Tech aliens see vote go to Senate
News The bill, which has received strong support from high-tech companies, would extend the quota of H1B visas granted to highly-skilled foreign workers. Currently, 65,000 workers in this category may enter the country each year.
[September 25, 1998, 6:54]
