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Hard to believe but Congress just approved an IoT security law and it doesn't totally suck

Secure coding, identity management, patching, configuration controls, what madness is this?

18 Nov 2020

Big Tech's Section 230 Senate hearing was like Jack Dorsey’s beard: An inexplicable mess that needed a serious trim

CommentWith few exceptions, the questioning was a national embarrassment

28 Oct 2020

Four years after Europe sorted this, America is still going around in circles on data privacy in stuffy hearings

Federal versus state action – the endless conundrum for the United States

24 Sep 2020

Remember that backdoor in Juniper gear? Congress sure does – even if networking biz wishes it would all go away

US lawmakers demand answers in quest against Feds-only access points

10 Jun 2020

You know this Land of the Free thing, yeah? Well then, why allow the FBI to trawl through America's browsing history without a warrant?

50-plus advocacy groups call on US House of Reps to slap limits on surveillance law

20 May 2020

Signal sends smoke, er, signal: If Congress cripples anonymous speech with EARN IT Act, we'll shut US ops

Secure messaging app says it could not continue operations in America under proposed law

09 Apr 2020

Yelp finally gets its chance to tell US Congress how Google screws its listings service every minute of every day

Testimony claims search engine giant favours own products and services, even when they're rubbish

11 Mar 2020

What was Boeing through their heads? Emails show staff wouldn't put their families on a 737 Max over safety fears

Described FAA regulators being briefed as 'like dogs watching TV'

11 Jan 2020

Half a billion here, half a billion there – pretty soon you're talking real money: US Congress earmarks $425m for 2020 election security

Just another, oh, $1.675bn to go to defend systems, it is estimated

17 Dec 2019

Since the FCC won't act, Congress finally moves on robocalls by passing half-decent TRACED Act

Only took seven years of consumer hell to get this far

04 Dec 2019

Congress to FCC: Where’s the damn report on mobile companies selling location data?

Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats not happy with Ajit Pai

08 Nov 2019

US senators green-light recruitment of crack infosec teams, both public and private

Cyber-terrorists, your game is through, 'cause now you have to answer to: America, fsck yeah!

26 Sep 2019

'It’s not a surveillance program'... US govt isn't going all Beijing on us with border face-recog, official tells Congress

Lawmakers told: 'We don’t run the scans against any other databases'

11 Jul 2019

Before we lose our minds over sentient AI, what about self-driving cars that can't detect kids crossing the road?

Uncle Sam needs to step in and audit machine-learning systems, House committee told

27 Jun 2019

Hours before Congress backs robocall blocking law, guess what the FCC boss suddenly decides?

Amazing how fast Pai and his team can move when motivated

15 May 2019

They did it! US House reps pulled their finger out, voted to restore net neutrality in America!

News only spoiled by fact it was a complete waste of time

10 Apr 2019

There was yet another net neutrality hearing today in America, and it was all straightened out amicably and smoothly

No, of course it wasn't

12 Mar 2019

Good news: Congress has solutions to end net neutrality brouhaha. Bad news: Two competing sets of solutions...

AnalysisWe're gonna save America's internet, scream both sides in different ways

04 Mar 2019

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Hard to believe but Congress just approved an IoT security law and it doesn't totally suck

Big Tech's Section 230 Senate hearing was like Jack Dorsey’s beard: An inexplicable mess that needed a serious trim

Four years after Europe sorted this, America is still going around in circles on data privacy in stuffy hearings

Remember that backdoor in Juniper gear? Congress sure does – even if networking biz wishes it would all go away

You know this Land of the Free thing, yeah? Well then, why allow the FBI to trawl through America's browsing history without a warrant?

Signal sends smoke, er, signal: If Congress cripples anonymous speech with EARN IT Act, we'll shut US ops

Yelp finally gets its chance to tell US Congress how Google screws its listings service every minute of every day

What was Boeing through their heads? Emails show staff wouldn't put their families on a 737 Max over safety fears

Half a billion here, half a billion there – pretty soon you're talking real money: US Congress earmarks $425m for 2020 election security

Since the FCC won't act, Congress finally moves on robocalls by passing half-decent TRACED Act

Congress to FCC: Where’s the damn report on mobile companies selling location data?

US senators green-light recruitment of crack infosec teams, both public and private

'It’s not a surveillance program'... US govt isn't going all Beijing on us with border face-recog, official tells Congress

Before we lose our minds over sentient AI, what about self-driving cars that can't detect kids crossing the road?

Hours before Congress backs robocall blocking law, guess what the FCC boss suddenly decides?

They did it! US House reps pulled their finger out, voted to restore net neutrality in America!

There was yet another net neutrality hearing today in America, and it was all straightened out amicably and smoothly

Good news: Congress has solutions to end net neutrality brouhaha. Bad news: Two competing sets of solutions...

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