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US lawmaker: Mobile users should be able to delete data

A U.S. lawmaker has proposed legislation that would allow mobile phone users to ask apps to stop collecting their personal data and to delete information collected in the past.

By Grant Gross | 17 January, 2013 21:51

Tags: U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Steve DelBianco, telecommunication, NetChoice, Hank Johnson, Al Franken, mobile, legislation, government, privacy, 4g, 3g, U.S. House of Representatives, security
FTC: Companies should limit facial recognition in some cases

Web companies using facial recognition technology should avoid identifying anonymous images of consumers to someone who could not otherwise identify them, unless the companies have the consumers' consent, a U.S. Federal Trade Commission report said.

By Grant Gross | 22 October, 2012 20:36

Tags: U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Federal Trade Commission, regulation, security, Al Franken, government, Thomas Rosch, internet, privacy, Facebook
Senate votes against measure to kill net neutrality rules

The U.S. Senate has voted against a Republican measure that would have overturned net neutrality rules passed by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission last December.

By Grant Gross | 11 November, 2011 05:10

Tags: U.S. Senate, telecommunication, regulation, John Kerry, Al Franken, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, legislation, government, internet, Internet service providers, broadband, Kay Bailey Hutchison
Senators question if Google has biased search results

Several U.S. senators accused Google of giving search preferences to its own suite of services over competitors, but executive chairman Eric Schmidt denied that his company is manipulating search results during a hearing Wednesday.

By Grant Gross | 22 September, 2011 07:18

Tags: antitrust, yelp, regulation, Al Franken, internet, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Susan Creighton, Mike Lee, Google, Nextag, legal, eric schmidt, Richard Blumenthal, Jeff Katz, government, search engines, advertising
Senators push for changes in cybercrime law

The main U.S. law targeting cybercrime may need to be changed because it has allowed law enforcement agencies to target people who simply violate websites' terms of service or their employers' computer use policies, two senators said Wednesday.

By Grant Gross | 08 September, 2011 04:05

Tags: Americans for Tax Reform, Al Franken, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, legislation, Barack Obama, Electronic Frontier Foundation, harvard university, James Baker, Lori Drew, American Civil Liberties Union, security, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, legal, Center for Democracy and Technology, Aaron Swartz, government, Patrick Leahy, cybercrime, U.S. Department of Justice, regulation, MySpace.com

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What Obama's re-election may mean for technology

The US presidential election result leaves President Barack Obama in the White House and maintains the balance of power in Congress. In many longstanding technology debates, policy experts see little movement forward, although lawmakers may look for compromises on a handful of issues.

By Grant Gross | 07 November, 2012 19:06

Tags: Technology Policy Institute, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 4g, legal, Motion Picture Association of America, Center for Democracy and Technology, Greg Nojeim, Thomas Lenard, Arlene Holen, Ed Markey, Public Knowledge, U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration, broadband, telecommunication, Al Franken, Kevin Richards, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, regulation, privacy, Microsoft, intel, TechAmerica, legislation, government, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, copyright, intellectual property, Gigi Sohn, Barack Obama, Hewlett-Packard, security, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, data protection

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