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Congress may require ISPs to block fraud sites

a U.S. House of Representatives bill is taking the unusual step of requiring Internet providers to block access to certain online financial scams - or face fines and federal court injunctions. For the last decade or so, Internet service providers have been dealing with requests to block access to...

Tags: Internet Provider, Financial, U.S. House Of Representatives, U.S. Congress, Internet Service Provider, Investor, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Financial Accounting, Finance, ISP, scam, Declan McCullagh

News items 2009-11-04

Joe Biden loves RIAA, DRM; hates encryption, George Bush

Does Joe Biden have more in common with Metallica's Lars Ulrich than Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg? CNET colleague Declan McCullagh has a superb analysis of Dem. vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, who has an interesting (read: depressing) voting history when it comes to tech issues. ...

Tags: George W. Bush, Declan McCullagh, Digital-rights Management, Presidential Candidate, RIAA, Vice, Encryption, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Federal Government, Professional Development, Peer To Peer (P2P), Security, Government, Career, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Daily Debrief: Corn farmers vs. Google

CNET News.com's Charlie Cooper and Declan McCullagh discuss corn farmers who are taking anti-Google fight to Washington.

Tags: Google Inc., News, daily debrief, Charlie Cooper, Declan McCullagh, google, farm, corn, lobbyist, washington, search

Videos 2008-06-11

Senators weigh China's new laws on Web censorship

CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh and Kara Tsuboi discuss the latest Senate hearing on American tech companies doing business in China. Representatives from Cisco, Yahoo, and Google come under fire for abiding by the laws of the Internet-restricting country.

Tags: Web, Law, Channel Management, Marketing, News, kara tsuboi, declan mccullagh, china, cisco, yahoo, google, senate, hearing, internet

Videos 2008-05-20

Beyond a shadow of a pornographic doubt, don't rush to judgment

Have you seen this man? Known only as "Vico," Interpol is apparently looking for him. According to the Register: Interpol says he appears in about 200 photographs of child abuse taken in Vietnam and Cambodia. His face had been "swirled" in the...

Tags: Declan McCullagh, Web, Interpol, Termination, PC, Story, Computer, No., Productivity, Workforce Management, Web Site Development, Human Resources, Internet, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-08

Bush Administration tells Internet advocates to vote Democratic

Sometimes the truth is partisan. This is one of those times. If you want an open Internet, one where you're not being blackmailed by phone monopolists at every turn, whether you're trying to download or upload, then you better vote Democratic next year. And...

Tags: Declan McCullagh, Internet, Bush Administration, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-09-07

Oh car driver, where art thou? (actually Big Brother knows)

In a commentary about the potential mandating of Global Positioning System GPS tracking devices in cars, News.com's Declan McCullagh must have been gnashing his teeth when he wrote: Trust federal bureaucrats to take a good idea and transform it into a frightening proposal to track Americans wherever they drive....The...

Tags: GPS, Declan McCullagh

Blog posts 2005-12-06

Does Gmail breach wiretap laws?

Does Gmail breach wiretap laws?Guess who Stewart Baker is?Stewart A. Baker was the National Security Agency's top lawyer from 1992-1994, where he promoted the key escrow system for the Clipper chip. EPIC, on the other hand, was a key opponent of the Clipper chip. It's curious that Declan McCullagh quotes...

Tags: E-mail providers, privacy group, Now Let, e-mail, Google Gmail, Stewart Baker, Declan McCullagh

Discussion threads 2004-05-04

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Web 2.5: Is it time we elected an Internet government?

As I watched the BBC News last night after getting in from London, I saw riots in China with death tolls surpassing those of the 1989 Tiananmen Square tragedy. Mobile phones have "stopped working" and Internet access is "limited" in the area, according to the news reports. ...

Tags: China, Web, Nation, Agreement, Internet, Channel Management, Government, Marketing, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-07-07

General: NSA doesn't want to control cybersecurity

As the 60-day cybersecurity review draws to a close, NSA director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander told the RSA conference that the agency has no desire to strip responsibility from the Department of Homeland Security, Cnet's Declan McCullagh reports. Although NSA "has tremendous technical abilities" and...

Tags: Cybersecurity, NSA, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-22

Obama continues Bush's secrecy policy on mysterious IP trade deal

OK, just what is so secret about a copyright-protection treaty? There is this proposal - the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. It's a secret and repugnant proposed treaty with some pretty extreme provisions. Only what we know about the provisions is limited to what has leaked out, because the actual terms...

Tags: Treaty, IP, Obama, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Network Technology, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-13

Is Craigslist 'Pimp 2.0'?

The Web was supposed to be the "disintermediator" - the destroyer of unnecessary middlemen. Craiglist might have been intended to disintermediate newspaper classified advertising although Craig always denied that but now it seems it has become the ultimate disintermediator - a pimp. At least that's...

Tags: Craigslist, Gender And Diversity, Recruitment & Selection, Sales Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sales, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-06

Election Day '08: Where to get live results

There's no better time in history to watch election results on the fly. Some, but not all, of us will have access to a television, where you can watch results stream in on ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC or Fox. But for those of you...

Tags: Result, Associated Press, Election Day, Twitter, CNN, Palm Beach Post, Northwestern, Corporate Communications, Blogging, RSS, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Marketing, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-04

Hollywood preps new copyright bills

Declan McCullagh reports over at News.com that Hollywood is gearing up for another copyright expansion attack. Two major bills this time: No. 1 is the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act, sponsored by Leahy and Specter, the ranking members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. It...

Tags: American Library Association, Hollywood, Intellectual Property, Piracy, Federal Government, Tv & Home Theater, Purchasing & Procurement, Research & Development, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Government, Personal Technology, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-12

Tech policy and presidential politics: Is it a vote getter?

Welcome to the week that is the Democratic National Convention followed by another one with the Republican National Convention. We'll get coverage out the wazoo with a heavy dose of the technology implications from our sister site and parent, News.com and CBS News, respectively. While the technology policies of Barack...

Tags: VP, Policy, Strategy, Regulations, Management, Government, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Programming note: Politics meets tech

In the next few weeks, CNET and CBS will be tag teaming the Democratic and Republican national conventions surfacing technology issues as they pop up. Dan Farber has all the details and ways you can submit questions. Dan writes: With the Democratic and Republican national conventions...

Tags: CBS Corp., CBS Interactive Inc., Convention, Corporate Communications, Dan Farber, Larry Dignan, Marketing, Programming, Republican

Blog posts 2008-08-15

FCC to vote against Comcast, which questions its authority

The FCC is set to vote to fine Comcast for its blocking of BitTorrent traffic, with the two Democrats voting with chairman Kevin Martin. The two Republicans have come out swinging against the action. But Comcast -- and News.com's Declan McCullagh -- say the FCC lacks...

Tags: FCC, Comcast Corp., Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-28

NebuAd: Galileo or pariah?

So, it would seem we have found the outer limits of user tracking and ad-serving. At a House hearing yesterday, NebuAd ran into universal condemnation for its plans to monitor broadband customers' web visits and deliver targeting advertising, reports News.com's Declan McCullagh. Contemptible. Goes against everything...

Tags: Web, Advertisement, Cable Company, Internet Service Provider, Notice, NebuAd, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Cable, Channel Management, Network Technology, Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Senate, Web ad titans joust over behavioral targeting

A U.S. Senate panel on Wednesday picked apart behavioral Web advertising as executives from the likes of Google, NebuAd and Facebook touted their privacy controls and even went as far as noting that ads are good for you. The hearing before the Senate Committee on Senate Committee...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Advertisement, Privacy, Internet Service Provider, Behavioral Targeting, Service Provider, U.S. Senate, Online Advertising, Internet Service, NebuAd, Privacy Law, Tom, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-09

News to know: Ubuntu; Firefox 3; RIM; CTIA

Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is Ubuntu becoming the generic Linux distro? Paula Rooney: Firefox 3 Beta 5 released, RC1 Freezes April 8 Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 - Fastest browser yet! Release notes Larry...

Tags: Ubuntu, Research In Motion Ltd., Mozilla Firefox, Mobile, Network, SAP AG, CTIA, Data Centers, Cellular Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-03