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- A glimmer of hope for edtech funding
- Though it's too early to tell how it will all shake out, prospects are looking up for preservation of at least some of the education technology funding slated for budget cuts by President Bush. According to an eSchoolNews report, the Senate narrowly approved a measure by Sens. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.)...
- Tags: U.S. Senate, Arlen Specter
- Blog posts 2006-03-23
- Examining the NSA wiretaps
- Sen. Arlen Specter quizzes the attorney generalSenate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Penn., quizzes Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez about the NSA spying program on Monday.
- Tags: NSA, Arlen Specter
- Videos 2006-02-06
- Security breach laws become state's rights issue
- Security breach laws become state's rights issueThe inherently anti-consumer nature of monied corporationsThis article doesn't really touch on the issue of customer abuse. ChoicePoint evidently see Joe and Jane Public as nothing more than the raw data which funds their revenue. They are insultingly dismissive in their proven responses to...
- Tags: Identity theft, Sales channel, Hammurabi, LexisNexis, Arlen Specter, ChoicePoint Inc., security
- Discussion threads 2005-04-14
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- Senate approves telecom immunity, rejects compromises
- The Associated Press reports this dire news: The Senate voted Tuesday to shield from lawsuits telecommunications companies that helped the government eavesdrop on their customers without court permission after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. That's the Democratic-controlled Senate. After nearly two...
- Tags: Associated Press, U.S. Senate, Telephony, Government, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Telecom immunity bill advances in Senate; Dodd promises filibuster
- The battle over telecommunications immunity continued Monday with a Senate vote, 76-10, to advance for a floor vote a bill protecting the companies from lawsuits relating to cooperation with national surveillance efforts. The Times reports that most Democrats voted to move forward, as a bid by...
- Tags: Bill, Federal Government, Government, Immunity, Networking, Richard Koman, Sen., Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Telephony, U.S. Senate
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- Judiciary Committee passes on immunity for telcos
- The issue of immunity for telecommunications companies who cooperate with warrantless wiretaps is at the center of a looming showdown in Congress. Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved 10-9 a version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that doesn't include immunity, the New York Times reports. Also Thursday night,...
- Tags: Immunity, U.S. Senate, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- Compromise on NSA spying pretty one-sided
- Sen. Arlen Specter's (R-Pa) "compromise" bill PDF with the Bush administration over NSA domestic spying is getting roundly criticized by leading newspapers. The bill would allow the government to request that any lawsuit that attacks the legality of classified surveillance programs be transferred to the secret FISA court system. And...
- Tags: FISA Court
- Blog posts 2006-07-18
- Internet snooping rules upheld
- The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Bush Administration's rules for Internet surveillance, saying the FCC made a "reasonable policy choice," News.com reports. Judge Harry Edwards, who had called the FCC's arguments "gobbledygook" and "nonsense" during oral arguments before the appeals court last month, dissented. He said the...
- Tags: CALEA, FCC
- Blog posts 2006-06-09
- NSA spying comes under legal, political attack
- NSA spying comes under legal, political attackOsama loves Democrats!These stupid latte-drinking, pot-smoking, sissy-loving, funky-smelling, lie-telling, euro-loving, baby-killing, criminal-coddling, bush-wacking, cheese-cutting, same-sexers, low-lifers, soilder-hating, terrorist-hugging, truth-denying, tax-hiking, outcome-based-educating, gun-controling, freedom-stealing, God-hating, self-loving, broke-back-mountain-watching, money-give-awayers, dike-supporting, morals-dodging, hypocrites, democrats, Al Gore votenig, tree-huggers and racist color counters, get on my last nerve!Re:...
- Tags: Osama, NSA, NSA Spying, political attack
- Discussion threads 2006-04-27
- High-tech workers lobby for green cards
- Indian and Chinese high-tech workers seeking US citizenship have banded into a group called Immigration Voice with powerful friends on K Street, the home to all lobbyists, the Washington Post reports. Immigration Voice boasts 3,000 members; a fundraising goal of $200,000; and, most notably, a partnership with a high-powered lobbying...
- Tags: Quinn Gillespie, Voice, Immigration
- Blog posts 2006-04-26
- FAQ: The new 'annoy' law explained
- FAQ: The new 'annoy' law explainedI think its an anti-Goatse lawI think this is another anti-porn law, look at the 'and' at the end of A.i. they struck out. It's no longer necessary to *send* an offensive or annoying communication, or image, it's enough to simply make, create or solicit...
- Tags: U.S. Congress, OHIO ELECTIONS COMM'N, Goatse, First Amendment, McIntyre
- Discussion threads 2006-01-11
- Legislative solutions to security problems
- One thing I learned working for government is that if you don't solve your own problems, the legislature will do it for you--and you probably won't like the results. So it was with Sarbanes-Oxley and, perhaps, now with a data privacy and security. Senators Patrick Leahy...
- Tags: security
- Blog posts 2005-06-30
- Legislative solutions to security problems
- One thing I learned working for government is that if you don't solve your own problems, the legislature will do it for you--and you probably won't like the results. So it was with Sarbanes-Oxley and, perhaps, now with a data privacy and security. Senators Patrick Leahy (D, VT)...
- Tags: privacy, security
- Blog posts 2005-06-30
- Sarbanes-Oxley, IIM, and The Specter of Success
- Next Wednesday the two top people on the US Senate's Judiciary Committee, Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) are expected to introduce a bill responding to the recent surge in breaches of confidentiality among companies storing consumer data. Here's the summary from the cnet headline story ...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Act
- Blog posts 2005-06-25
- Sarbanes-Oxley, IIM, and The Specter of Success
- Next Wednesday the two top people on the US Senate's Judiciary Committee, Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) are expected to introduce a bill responding to the recent surge in breaches of confidentiality among companies storing consumer data. Here's the summary from the cnet headline story ...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Act
- Blog posts 2005-06-25
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