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InternetNews May 18, 2004 Roy Mark |
Congress Focuses on Video Voyeurism Narrowly limited to images taken on federal property, proposed bill designed to provide model legislation for states.  |
PC Magazine June 16, 2004 Sebastian Rupley |
Policing Tech Peeping Toms Congress is now considering a bill called the Video Voyeurism Prevention Act, designed to prevent people from using digital cameras and web postings of images for lewd purposes.  |
InternetNews February 6, 2007 Roy Mark |
Concealment a Crime in Latest Data Breach Bill Additional legislation calls for criminal penalties for concealing breaches and consumer notification of 'significant' breaches.  |
PC Magazine January 10, 2007 Aaron Dalton |
Washington's Net Change How the Democrat-controlled Congress could affect technology legislation.  |
InternetNews January 11, 2011 |
Judiciary Chair Planning IP, Privacy Bills As the Senate Judiciary Committee gets rolling in the new session of Congress, Chairman Patrick Leahy offers details of an ambitious agenda that will tackle several key tech issues.  |
InternetNews March 8, 2007 Roy Mark |
Gates' Washington Trip a Privacy Affair Congress should pass 'milestone' national uniform privacy standard says Microsoft chairman.  |
InternetNews April 7, 2006 Roy Mark |
House Subpoenas Phone Data Sites Web sites selling confidential consumer telephone data are refusing to comply with a U.S. House of Representatives' request for information, prompting the Energy and Commerce Committee to issue subpoenas to a dozen companies.  |
InternetNews March 8, 2006 Roy Mark |
Second Phone Data Privacy Bill Approved Targeting both telephone data brokers and telecoms, a House panel today approved legislation that bans the sale, lease or rental of confidential telephone records.  |
InternetNews June 30, 2005 Roy Mark |
Bill Targets Trafficking in Social Security Numbers Legislation requires companies to alert customers if their credit card information has been breached. The bill also prohibits requiring individuals to use Social Security numbers as their account numbers.  |
InternetNews February 25, 2005 Roy Mark |
ChoicePoint ID Theft Stirs Up Congress When lawmakers return to work next week, private data protection legislation will be all the rage.  |
PC Magazine July 11, 2007 Cyrus Farivar |
Closing the Loopholes on Data Theft Millions have had personal data, including credit card numbers, stolen this year. Congress is seeking to pass a stricter, nationwide law.  |
Information Today April 21, 2011 George H. Pike |
House and Senate Propose Online Privacy 'Bill of Rights' Legislation The face of online privacy could change dramatically if legislation recently introduced in Congress becomes law.  |
InternetNews October 8, 2004 |
House Toughens Spyware Penalties For the second time in three days, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed an anti-spyware bill, this time adding criminal penalties to tough civil provisions of legislation passed on Tuesday.  |
CIO January 1, 2002 Stephanie Viscasillas |
Privacy Versus the FBI The antiterrorism law President Bush signed in late October makes it easier for officials investigating potential terrorist activity to get court orders to search companies' business records. It is important to take that into account in your privacy policy.  |
InternetNews October 6, 2004 Roy Mark |
House Passes Anti-Spyware Bill The U.S. House of Representatives voted 399-1 Tuesday night to pass legislation prohibiting unfair or deceptive practices related to spyware.  |
PC World October 7, 2002 Michelle Madigan |
Privacy Concerns Pushed to Front Lines Feds must explore, explain any effect on privacy by new policies or practices, under pending legislation.  |
InternetNews September 30, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
Calif. Gov. Signs Anti-Spyware Bill The bill privacy groups called 'unenforceable' is now state law.  |
InternetNews January 9, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
New Data Breach, Privacy Bills in Congress If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.  |
InternetNews September 22, 2010 |
Senate Ponders Update of Electronic Privacy Act Twenty four years after the passage of the ECPA, much has changed in the way companies and governments collect, store and share electronic data.  |
PC World February 20, 2001 Jennifer O'Neill |
Congress Navigates a Flood of Net Privacy Bills Lawmakers, industry juggle e-commerce and consumer concerns in review of longtime (and new) proposals...  |
InternetNews March 2, 2006 Roy Mark |
House Panel Rocks Phone Record Thieves The House Judiciary Committee approved legislation today aimed at curbing the sale of online black market telephone records.  |
InternetNews September 22, 2005 Roy Mark |
Roberts Vote Could Stall Data Privacy Law Judiciary Committee may vote today on mandating national breach disclosure law.  |
U.S. CPSC December 19, 2007 |
US Consumer Product Safety Commission Acting Chairman Nancy Nord Applauds House Vote on Landmark Consumer Product Safety Legislation The members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are congratulated for their leadership and hard work on significant product safety legislation.  |
InternetNews May 23, 2005 Roy Mark |
House Approves Anti-Spyware Bills The U.S. House plunged ahead in its anti-spyware campaign, passing two different bills targeting unfair or deceptive practices related to spyware.  |
InternetNews September 23, 2005 Roy Mark |
Senate Turns Attention to Data Privacy The Senate Judiciary Committee expects to vote next week on legislation making it a crime for data brokers to conceal a security breach involving personal data and increasing penalties for computer fraud when the act involves personal data.  |
InternetNews May 11, 2005 Roy Mark |
Senate Debating Data Privacy Changes Senate Commerce Committee opens series of hearing on data broker practices.  |
InternetNews May 22, 2007 Roy Mark |
House Passes Anti-Spyware Legislation I SPY Act earns third approval from House. Will Senate reject legislation for third time?  |
InternetNews March 9, 2006 Roy Mark |
Phone Data Privacy Bill Heats Up in Senate Momentum for a telephone data privacy bill began building in the U.S. Senate Wednesday, with Sen. George Allen introducing legislation to outlaw the acquiring, selling or soliciting of someone else's phone records without their express consent.  |
InternetNews September 29, 2004 Roy Mark |
House Toughens Penalties on P2Ps Bill calls for criminal penalties of up to five years for willfully distributing copyrighted works.  |
PC World July 27, 2001 Cara Garretson |
Should a Web Site's Privacy Policy be Set by Law? Tech leaders say they want the flexibility to write their own, but Congress leans otherwise...  |
Salon.com October 6, 2000 Simson Garfinkel |
Mano a mano with John McCain At a committee hearing on online privacy, the senator asks me some tough questions and doesn't like what he hears...  |
InternetNews March 31, 2006 Roy Mark |
Senate Passes Phone Data Confidentiality Bill A U.S. Senate panel pushed out legislation yesterday that makes it illegal to acquire, use or sell a person's confidential phone records without affirmative written consent.  |
InternetNews September 22, 2004 Roy Mark |
Senate Panel Approves Anti-Spyware Bill Anti-spyware legislation took a major step forward Wednesday when the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee approved a bill to outlaw spyware that is loaded on a computer without the user's consent.  |
InternetNews June 16, 2010 |
Sens. to Mark Up Cybersecurity Bill Next Week Leaders of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs pledge to bring week-old cybersecurity bill to a markup next week, hope for passage this year.  |
InternetNews April 10, 2006 Roy Mark |
Security Group Calls on Congress Public confidence in e-commerce will erode if Congress does not step forward and pass a meaningful national data breach disclosure law this year, according to the Cyber Security Industry Alliance.  |
InternetNews February 24, 2010 |
Lawmakers Dig In On Cybersecurity Bill Supporters of the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 remain steadfast in their support of a bill that would expand President Obama's authority to intervene in the event of a major cyber attack.  |
InternetNews December 3, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Privacy Advocates Press for Net Legislation A new effort by the Center for Democracy and Technology coincides with signs of movement in Congress on Internet privacy.  |
InternetNews December 16, 2010 |
Ecommerce Scam Bill Heads to President's Desk House clears Senate-approved legislation cracking down on "post-transaction" marketers found to have quietly enrolled unsuspecting shoppers in fee-based membership programs.  |
InternetNews February 25, 2010 |
CTIA Calls for Location-Based Privacy Rules As the privacy debate turns to location-based services, wireless association seeks clarification from Congress on the rules for sharing data with law enforcement authorities.  |
InternetNews January 25, 2006 Roy Mark |
Capitol Hill Roiling Over Online Phone Records The furor over online data brokers selling personal telephone data continues to roil on Capitol Hill with a House panel now demanding to know when the Federal Communications Commission will complete its investigation.  |
InternetNews January 28, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
International Data Privacy Day Spreads Focusing on data privacy in an age of cybercrime.  |
InternetNews May 12, 2006 Roy Mark |
Data Breach Bills Crowding Congress Seeking to make it a crime to conceal data breaches involving personal information, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Thursday jumped into the data breach debate playing out on Capitol Hill.  |
InternetNews January 19, 2011 |
Reid to Renew Senate Cybersecurity Push Senate majority leader looks to merge competing committee bills to arrive at reform legislation this year, still waiting for the White House to weigh in.  |
InternetNews November 18, 2005 Roy Mark |
A Senate Shot at Anti-Spyware Anti-spyware legislation found new life in the U.S. Senate Thursday when the Commerce Committee approved the SPY BLOCK Act, which outlaws a number of activities associated with unauthorized downloads.  |
InternetNews January 19, 2006 Roy Mark |
Lawmakers Move Against Phone Record Brokers New legislation targets the illegal selling of personal telephone record data.  |
InternetNews February 14, 2007 Roy Mark |
Senate Panel Moves on 911 Upgrades Responding to requests from emergency responder groups, the Senate Commerce Committee Tuesday approved two bills to expedite funding for 911 systems and to pre-position communications equipment for disasters.  |
InternetNews June 11, 2010 |
Feds Reassessing Breach Notification Laws Data breaches small and large continue to plague consumers and businesses at a record pace and lawmakers at all levels of government are now considering more proactive legislation to help thwart identity theft.  |
InternetNews March 11, 2005 Roy Mark |
Staggered Start For ChoicePoint Hearing Senate ID theft hearing postponed but Schumer and Corzine promise new privacy legislation.  |
Geotimes July 2007 Allyson K. Anderson |
A Political Comment on ... The Life of a Bill A brief primer on bills originating in the Senate using S. 1321, the Energy Savings Act of 2007, a bill that the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources recently proposed.  |
InternetNews March 9, 2005 Roy Mark |
House Continues Anti-Spyware Push Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously approves legislation, setting stage for full House vote to legislate spyware.  |