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US Congress To Ask For Carnivore Code
News The US congress is expected to put pressure on the FBI to release the working details of its controversial "Carnivore" email monitoring system at a hearing Monday, reports the Wall Street Journal. The FBI has reportedly claimed that revealing this...
[July 24, 2000, 17:31]
US Congress Readies 'super-DMCA'
News For the last few years, a coalition of technology companies, academics and computer programmers has been trying to persuade Congress to scale back the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Now Congress is preparing to do precisely the opposite.
[April 25, 2006, 15:20]
US Congress Votes For Net Neutrality
News We are optimistic that the majority in Congress will see this legislation as an attempt to solve a problem that does not exist, and will instead focus on bringing choice to consumers by passing video choice legislation," Tim McKone, AT&T executive...
[May 26, 2006, 9:10]
US Congress Readies 'super-DMCA'
Talkback Here in Europe we are already waiting for the Software Patents tsunami to hit us full force and decimate innovation all around us. Unfortunately Mr. Arthur, every computer on the planet is a potential vessel for these changes because they can house...
[April 26, 2006, 10:13]
US Congress Votes For Net Neutrality
Talkback There can't be enough .GOV for the global Deva and their wimpcycle pricing or is that spending? It's certainly a Reno 'Bear' market for face lifts and 38 shoulder holsters. How's your sex life? Laid Law or DFi?
[May 26, 2006, 11:35]
US Congress Readies 'super-DMCA'
Talkback Non US governments and companies should think twice about using US (embedded) software that agrees with the terms of the proposed 'super-DMCA'. There's a high risk of ending up with software that has huge black-boxes inside (parts you can't even...
[April 26, 2006, 2:07]
US Congress Wades Into Internet Control Row
News Members of the US House of Representatives said this week the US should resist international pressure to give up authority over key Internet functions amid a mounting feud over the issue. They addressed the letter to David Gross, US coordinator for...
[October 10, 2005, 16:40]
US Congress Ignites Net Filter Fight
News She said the measure was "[similar to] Congress asking for an entire type of book removed from a library, which it hasn't done before". An amendment attached to a sweeping appropriations bill that Congress passed Friday would require most of the...
[December 19, 2000, 15:10]
US Congress Asked To Unpick Copy Lock Laws
News Congress is about to recess before the autumn elections, and the bill will receive a frosty reception by some key legislators if it is reintroduced in the new congressional session that begins in January 2003.
[October 4, 2002, 7:51]
US Congress Berates Yahoo In Cyberdissident Row
News Yahoo's chief executive Jerry Yang and executive vice president Michael Callahan faced a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing in Washington yesterday over providing misleading information to Congress last year as part of an investigation...
[November 7, 2007, 8:32]
US Approves Billion-dollar Cybersecurity Bill
News The US Congress approved a massive spending programme on Tuesday afternoon that allocates nearly a billion dollars for computer security research. By a voice vote, the US House of Representatives agreed to the Cyber Security Research and...
[November 14, 2002, 7:59]
Americans Support A Ban On 'uncrackable' Encryption
News A poll in the US has found widespread support for a ban on "uncrackable" encryption products, following US Congress proposals to tighter restrictions on software that scrambles electronic data. The US Congress was quick to blame sophisticated...
[September 18, 2001, 14:57]
Kazaa In Child Porn Investigation
News The US Congress is targeting peer-to-peer networks again -- and this time politicians aren't fretting over music and software piracy. Congress' first two attempts to restrict sexually explicit Web sites have been rejected by courts, and last week...
[March 13, 2003, 10:01]
Echelon: Sigint Under The Spotlight
News During the 1970s, after the Watergate revelations toppled US president Richard Nixon, special committees set up by the US Congress documented numerous abuses by US intelligence agencies, including NSA.
[June 30, 2000, 9:35]
EBay Heads To The Top For Patent Reform
News E-commerce giant eBay has asked the US Supreme Court to decide a patent issue currently pitting the computer technology and pharmaceuticals industries against one another in Congress. The issue of patent infringement injunctions is before the US...
[July 28, 2005, 8:50]
Americans Shrug Off Copyright Concerns
Talkback In a ever widening response to the latest outrage against civil liberties by RIAA and its subsidiary the US Congress, we have ceased buying the CD's they accuse us of not buying (we refuse to "FEED THE SHARK") we are also noting the brand name...
[August 15, 2003, 21:45]
File-swapping Legal Fight Gathers Steam
News A hotly contested wrangle in the US Congress over how to outlaw file-swapping networks just took a new twist. The Copyright Office, an influential agency organised under the US Congress, prepared the draft legislation after a meeting last Thursday...
[September 3, 2004, 9:35]
US Anti-spyware Bill Rises From The Ashes
News The US Congress didn't quite get around to approving an anti-spyware bill last year - such a bill died while awaiting a Senate floor vote. During a hearing on Wednesday, politicians said spyware was a growing threat that required prompt action by...
[May 12, 2005, 9:35]
US Presses Ahead With Patent Reforms
News The US patent system transformation long sought by hi-tech industry players like Microsoft, Amazon.com and Cisco may finally be gaining momentum in US Congress. Even if the measures do not ultimately move forward in Congress this year, some of the...
[July 23, 2007, 9:22]
US Exports DMCA In Trade Treaty
News Congress is being asked to approve a trade agreement with Chile that would export a controversial US law: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. In 1998, the US Congress enacted the DMCA over the objections of some librarians and computer scientists...
[July 16, 2003, 14:12]
