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Article | 17/05/2013 Alleged tech support scammers settle FTC charges
Operators of two alleged tech support scams that charged consumers hundreds of dollars to supposedly fix their computers have settled charges from the...
Article | 16/05/2013 Advocates call for legal protections for copyright consumers
The U.S. Congress should consider a "safe harbor" from legal action for consumers using works protected by copyright as it launches a long-term effort...
Article | 16/05/2013 NetChoice: California privacy bills are bad for Internet
E-commerce trade group NetChoice takes aim at state legislation -- and at open access and privacy advocates -- in the newest list of bills it deems wo...
Article | 15/05/2013 Syrian Internet service comes back online
Internet traffic in and out of war-torn Syria has been restored after a disruption of nearly eight and a half hours, according to Internet traffic cha...
Article | 14/05/2013 US agencies can't track savings from data center closings
The U.S. government's effort to close 1,253 of its data centers is falling short of its goal, and agencies haven't been able to track projected cost s...
Article | 14/05/2013 TechAmerica: US tech employment grows slightly in 2012
The U.S. tech industry added 67,400 jobs in 2012, a 1.1 percent increase from a year earlier, according to a new report from the TechAmerica Foundatio...
Article | 13/05/2013 Survey: US residents oppose Internet sales tax
The U.S. Senate has, by a wide margin, supported a bill allowing an Internet sales tax, but the legislation appears to be a tougher sell to the public...
Article | 10/05/2013 Appeals court ruling could be 'death' of software patents
A U.S. appeals court has ruled that an abstract idea is not patentable simply because it is tied to a computer system, signaling what one judge descri...
Article | 9/05/2013 US lawmakers introduce apps privacy bill
New legislation introduced by a group of U.S. lawmakers would require mobile application developers to obtain consent from consumers before collecting...
Article | 9/05/2013 FCC moves toward new airplane broadband service
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has taken a major step toward helping more airlines offer in-cabin wireless broadband, with the agency voti...
Article | 9/05/2013 Obama administration expands open data access
U.S. President Barack Obama has signed an executive order requiring that government data be made available in open, machine-readable formats, expandin...
Article | 8/05/2013 Study: US military too reliant on foreign-made equipment
The U.S. military's reliance on foreign-made products, including telecommunications equipment and semiconductors, is putting the nation's security at ...
Article | 8/05/2013 Senators want sanctions against countries supporting cyberattacks
Two U.S. senators will push Congress or President Barack Obama's administration to pursue trade and immigration sanctions against China and other coun...
Article | 7/05/2013 FTC sends warning letters to 10 data brokers
More than 20 percent of data brokers checked by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission allegedly violated a U.S. privacy law when sharing personal data wit...
Article | 7/05/2013 Megaupload's lawyers: DOJ's charges have no basis in law
The U.S. Department of Justice's copyright infringement case against file storage service Megaupload is "prosecutorial overreach" based on a misreadin...

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