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Maybe high-speed internet is infrastructure after all, say US Republicans in proposal to spend $65bn over five years

Our plan is better than President Biden's, they claim, with few details

So, where does Silicon Valley stand on S.230? Zuck wants 'industry best practices', Pichai demurs, Dorsey urges more Bluesky thinking

House panel to quiz web giant CEOs this week. Expect a degree of deja vu

United States Congress stormed by violent followers of defeated president, Biden win confirmation halted

Updated Images of evacuated and invaded offices, Senate PCs still left switched on shared online

When it comes to privacy, everyone says America needs a new federal law ASAP. As for mass spying, well, um… huh what’s that over there?

Analysis Congressional hearing on Privacy Shield oddly productive affair

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?

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

Comment With few exceptions, the questioning was a national embarrassment

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

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

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

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

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

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'

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

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

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

Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats not happy with Ajit Pai

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!

'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'

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

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