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- Pretexting bill to be fast-tracked through Senate
- Pretexting bill to be fast-tracked through SenateSo in other words...It's, of course, illegal for regular citizens to break the law, but this law legalizes the same act which was previously illegal for law enforcement. Allowing law enforcement to circumvent the regular government procedure of GETTING A COURT ORDER, pushes...
- Tags: U.S. Senate, pretexting
- Discussion threads 2006-12-07
- Pretexting bill to be fast-tracked through Senate
- There are a lot of things Senate wont get to before the end of the 109th Congress, but if Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has his way, the Senate will get to pass a bill making pretexting definitively illegal, News.com reports. Pretexting of course was the scheme used by...
- Tags: pretexting, U.S. Senate, Congress, Law enforcement, State &, Local Govt, Government technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-07
- Senate may vote on pretexting bill this week
- Senate may vote on pretexting bill this weekI don't understandWhy to law enforcement agencies need to resort to pretexting to obtain telephone records? If they have a legitimate need for the information they should be able to call the phone company, indetify themselves and get the info. The thrust...
- Tags: pretexting, warrant, U.S. Senate
- Discussion threads 2006-12-07
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- Joe Biden loves RIAA, DRM; hates encryption, George Bush
- Joe Biden loves RIAA, DRM; hates encryption, George BushAre You Ready????To have your privacy taken away? For some joker to place more power with the RIAA and MPAA than your own persons.Anyone to push corporate initiatives to be funded by the tax payers should not be in office. ...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, George W. Bush, Dems, digital-rights management, Joe Biden, RIAA
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- 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
- Cerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over again
- Cerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over againCerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over again[i]Rather than a volume cap, I suggest the introduction of transmission rate caps, which would allow users to purchase access to the Internet at a given minimum data rate and be free...
- Tags: Pricing, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, NETWORKING, Net Neutrality, Vint Cerf, simple pricing, pricing strategy, Internet, Cerf, network
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- No penalties for colleges that don't enforce anti-P2P
- Although George Bush is expected to sign the Higher Education Act, reauthorized by both the House and Senate, provisions requiring academic institutions to police peer-to-peer traffic on campus has many colleges nervous. According to Ars Technica, the act does not contain any penalties for colleges that don't prevent copyright...
- Tags: anti-P2P, P2P, Institution, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Fixing McCain's techno-ignorance
- The New York Times' Mark Leibovich takes note of the tittering twitters over John McCain's recent admission that he's not exactly tech-savvy. "Not only did John McCain not invent the Internet, he can barely use it," he sniggers. McCain's argument, as Cynthia Brumfield summarizes, is that as...
- Tags: John McCain, Leibovich, E-mail, Web Site Development, Scanners, Online Communications, Internet, Hardware, Peripherals, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-03
- Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2: United Kingdom
- Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2: United KingdomDatabasesSince you're paying attention... look at bills, proclamations, edicts, etc. in other parts of the world including the USA.The senate just passed a sweeping communications bill that has the same effect as the UK's "proposal". Seems that the G8 or some other organization...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, Nate, Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2, Microsoft Windows NT
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- The (un)Biased Parties Explain Online Ad Biz to Capitol Hill
- Just so we understand each other, the Internet is like a series of tubes, kind of like tunnels. And large amounts of data get moved through those tunnels, like in the back of a truck, you see. And inside those tunnels, there are advertisements - sort of like the billboards...
- Tags: Google Inc., Internet Search Advertising, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Online Advertising, Search, Internet, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Ad-to-ad combat: Covering your Web tracks
- You're worried about the constant advance of ads tied to your behavior online. You're not going to wait for Congress to get around to mandating clear privacy protections online, as suggested last week in a modest proposal. What's an avid Web user to do? ...
- Tags: Web, Advertisement, AnchorFree Inc., HotSpot Shield, Mark Smith, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- News to know: Midori; Yahoo; iPhone; VMware
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: On the road to Midori: RedHawk, MinSafe and Sapphire Next Microsoft enterprise instant messaging/VOIP server: Think 2009 Microsoft to push XP SP3 via Auto Update on July 10 Microsoft to deliver SQL Server 2008 in August...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Open Source, Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., VMware Inc., Phishing, 3G, Cyberthreats, Hardware Upgrade, Spam, Strategy, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- Telecom immunity passes Senate, Obama votes yes
- Telecom immunity passes Senate, Obama votes yesugh.Freedom undermined by "security" AGAIN.
- Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Obama, U.S. Senate, telecommunications
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- FTC opposes online privacy law
- Google and Yahoo favor a national online privacy law, the companies' lawyers told the Senate Commerce Committee but the Federal Trade Commission said its plans for industry self-regulation would solve the problem. Not at the hearing: the ISPs whose latest moves into tracking user behavior for better advertising were the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Commission, Online Privacy, FTC, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Sales Force Management, Internet, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Telecom immunity passes Senate, Obama votes yes
- The Senate – with a yes vote from Barack Obama and a no vote from Hillary Clinton – passed the regrettable wiretapping bill today, which grants lawsuit immunity to telecommunications companies, The Wall Street Journal reports. Despite a spirited resistance by some Democratic senators who...
- Tags: Immunity, U.S. Senate, Vote, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Government, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Senate, Web ad titans joust over behavioral targeting
- Senate, Web ad titans joust over behavioral targetingCongress is blackmailing...these companies. As soon as lobbyists and involved parties pad the pockets of the various senators all will be OK and they will be allowed to rape the consumers privacy as originally planned.Lawmakers have learned it can be very lucrative to...
- Tags: ad titan, Senate Web, behavioral targeting, U.S. Senate, advertisement, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- 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
- A Modest Privacy Proposal
- The Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee is holding a hearing tomorrow on Privacy Implications of Online Advertising. Appearing before the committee headed by long-time Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) are lawyers for Google and Microsoft, as well as Facebook's chief privacy officer -- and Robert R. Dykes, the chairman...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Internet Service Provider, Service Provider, Internet Service, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Business Services, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- House approves telecom immunity in 'compromise'
- House approves telecom immunity in 'compromise'Bush finally managed to do in the Constitution and Bill of RightsIn one blow, done, gone, end of the representative republic that used to be the United States of America.Long live the Republic of Socialist Horrors I Totalitarianism.God Save the World Now.How exactly is this...
- Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, telecommunications, telecom immunity, government, Shrub Administration
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Gerontologists see something worse than death
- Gerontologists see something worse than deaththe worst of allis being poor and unable to work for a decent wage.When the retirement age is raised to the highest in the world, who would hire some cripple and sick men or women on a decent wage.It appears that in order to 'manage'...
- Tags: Gender and diversity, Benefits, payroll solutions, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Strom Thurmond, decent wage, retirement age, Gerontologists, salary, John Glenn
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
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