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CDT: Cybersecurity bills raise major civil liberties concerns
A group of cybersecurity bills that the U.S. Congress may soon vote on contain serious privacy and civil liberties flaws, with some of the bills allowing private companies to share a wide range of their customers' online communications with government agencies, the Center for Democracy and Technology said.
By Grant Gross | 05 April, 2012 04:02
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Few tech issues will move in Congress for the rest of the year
As the U.S. Congress begins to gear up for November's elections, several technology-related issues remain unresolved. Lawmakers have pushed in recent months for new cybersecurity legislation, online copyright enforcement provisions, new online privacy protections and an Internet sales tax, but progress will get tougher in the coming months.
By Grant Gross | 14 March, 2012 05:52
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Republican senators introduce their own cybersecurity bill
Seven senior Republicans in the U.S. Senate have introduced cybersecurity legislation after saying that an earlier bill would create costly regulations for businesses.
By Grant Gross | 02 March, 2012 07:34
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Cybersecurity bill would create costly regulations, say critics
Leaders in the U.S. Senate are trying to fast-track new cybersecurity legislation that will create costly new regulations for some businesses, some critics said Thursday.
By Grant Gross | 17 February, 2012 10:23
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Senators push for privacy, data security legislation
Democratic members of a Senate committee promised Wednesday to push hard for new online privacy protections and for legislation that would require companies to put security monitoring tools on their networks.
By Grant Gross | 30 June, 2011 04:41
Features about John McCain
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Hot search terms: Joe the plumber, 'lipness test'
Google Trends provides some great insight into what people are thinking about, even if they don't always help us to understand what this insight means in terms of the candidates' positioning.
By Thomas Powell and Joe Lima | 28 October, 2008 12:16
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Palin piques the blogosphere
Blog mentions are, like search terms, something of a special case. They probably show the least conclusive representation of candidate support, because there is no way to assess whether such mentions reflect a preponderance of positive or negative evaluations of the candidates. Anecdotal evidence suggests that negative mentions of candidate A by blogs supporting candidate B, and vice-versa, are very common indeed.
By Thomas Powell and Joe Lima | 28 October, 2008 12:15
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Friending Obama
When you take a close look at the traffic patterns within the Web 2.0-based community, the popularity gap between the two presidential candidates increases. Obama's favored by a 4-to-1 margin compared with the 2-to-1 margin when we looked at other Internet Web traffic trends.
By Thomas A. Powell and Joe Lima | 28 October, 2008 12:15
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US Election: What's in a domain name
The tale told by other Internet traffic trends, also rings true when taking domain registration into account. Using DomainTools to query for domains, we saw 2,357 domains for Obama and 1,431 domains for McCain.
By Thomas A. Powell and Joe Lima | 28 October, 2008 12:15
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Can the Web predict the next president?
IT professionals have historically monitored network traffic patterns to better understand network usage, to expose security events, and to generally promote overall network health. Traffic analysis can likewise be applied to the Web to understand a wide range of behavior patterns ranging from social media networks to suggestion systems in e-commerce to even the current hot topic: the presidential race.
By Thomas A. Powell and Joe Lima | 28 October, 2008 11:15
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