Tag: Politics

Illinois Legislation Asks Dating Websites To Post Background Check Information
Online dating has always been a risky business; you never know if you could be talking to Mr./Ms. Right or the Zodiac Killer. According to an article in the...
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ACTA: French MEP Resigns Over “Charade” In Parliament
ACTA has taken a blow already today with the resignation of the French MEP (Member of European Parliament) who was in charge of investigating the bill. On his...
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Hawaii Could Force ISPs To Log All Browsing History, Indefinitely
In the current political climate, with all the buzz about SOPA & PIPA and now H.R.1981...
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Facebook and Twitter Users: The FBI Is Watching You
The FBI is shopping around for a contractor to do some snooping for them on social media websites like Facebook and Twitter. In a document called "...
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Bill C-11: SOPA’s Canadian Hellspawn
Blocked websites. Infinite copyrights. Draconian entertainment industries. Judicial targeting of "pirate" sites. Users' loss of Internet access. If you've followed the news of...
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SAT Fraud and Entrepreneurs
New York State's Kenneth LaValle, chairman of the New York Senate Higher Education Committee is proposing legislation that would make any kind of fraud on the SAT's a felony. The a...
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President Obama Doesn’t Support SOPA, But Signs ACTA?
Move over SOPA, tell ACTA the news? Or is this more of a case of "move over SOPA, it's ACTA time?" Or does, "Stop! ACTA time!" work? For me, it's "just when you thought it was s...
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Hackers Take Control of U.S. Railway
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has just released reports on a cyber attack which occurred on December 1st of this past year. Nor...
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Colorado Judge Denies Fifth Amendment Applies to Encryption Passphrases
"I find and conclude that the Fifth Amendment is not implicated by requiring production of the unencrypted contents of the Toshiba Satellite M305 laptop computer,"...
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“Polish Underground” Takes Down Government Websites
In Warsaw, a group call the "Polish Underground" targeted the Polish Government's website. This comes following the weekends attack on websites belonging to Poland's president, pri...
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EFF Held An AMA Q&A Today On Reddit About SOPA, PIPA, et al.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's activism team visited the land of Reddit today with a mission: .ditto16153426481762...
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Sen. Chuck Grassley’s Twitter Account Hacked, Grammar Temporarily Improved
Word's spreading around the Twitterscape that U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa had his Twitter account hacked this afternoon. Politico is saying that the hacker is a supporter o...
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H.R. 1981 Is A Turd Wrapped In Cotton Candy
Sometimes it feels like we're all just playing a big game of electronic privacy whack-a-mole. And if we hold true to that analogy, the next mole that needs to be whacked might loo...
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Rand Paul Held By TSA For Refusing Pat-Down
U.S. Senator Rand Paul is currently being held by the TSA in Nashville, Tennessee, after he reportedly refused a full-body patdown after setting off the scanners. Moira Bagley...
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Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom Doesn’t Make Bail
Seven of Megaupload's employees and the company itself are accused of providing copyrighted material online without paying royalties. The company's staff and Founder Kim Dotcom has...
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