Politics Stories for 2017

Did A Billionaire Harvest Big Data From Facebook To 'Hijack' Democracy? 452
Le Pen Concedes Defeat To Macron In France's Post-Hack Election 671
'Weaponized' Twitter Bots Spread Info From French Campaign Hack 255
FCC Considers Fining Stephen Colbert Over Controversial Trump Joke 520
Days Before Election: Macron Campaign Says It Is the Victim of Massive, Coordinated Hacking Campaign 233
Seattle Restored ISP Privacy Rules in the First Local Blow To Trump's Rollback 145
Unmanned US Air Force Space Plane Lands After Secret, Two-Year Mission 14
Trump Administration Rolls Back Obama-Era Nutrition Standards For School Lunches 788
San Francisco Politician Jane Kim Is Exploring a Tax On Robots 239
Senate Republicans Introduce Anti-Net Neutrality Legislation 224
Trump is Launching a New Tech Group To 'Transform and Modernize' the US Govt 192
EPA Website Removes Climate Science Site From Public View After Two Decades 167
Trump Order Helps Offshore Drilling, Stops Marine Sanctuary Expansion 163
NSA Halts Collection of Americans' Emails About Foreign Targets 48
Facebook Pledges To Crack Down on Government-led Misinformation Campaigns 108
FCC Announces Plan To Reverse Title II Net Neutrality 202
Energy Star Program For Homes And Appliances Is On Trump's Chopping Block 273
The EPA Won't Be Shutting Down Its Open Data Website After All 43
In The First Months of Trump Era, Facebook And Apple Spent More On Lobbying Than They Ever Have 54
FCC Takes First Step Toward Allowing More Broadcast TV Mergers 71
President Trump Misses 90-Day Deadline To Appoint a Cybersecurity Team After Alleged Russian Hacking 347
TED Wants To Remind Us That Ideas -- Not Politicians -- Shape the Future 263
Steve Ballmer's New Project: Find Out How the Government Spends Your Money 251
Trump To Overhaul H-1B Visa Program To Encourage Hiring Americans 619
Trump Administration Kills Open.Gov, Will Not Release White House Visitor Logs 268
GOP Congressman Defending Privacy Vote: 'Nobody's Got To Use The Internet' 307
No More IP Addresses For Countries That Shut Down Internet Access 141
US Dismantles Forensic Science Commission 281
Sorry America, Your Taxes Aren't High 903
Russian Arrested in Spain 'Over US Election Hacking' 312
The Trump Administration No Longer Wants Twitter To Reveal the Owner of an Anti-Trump Account 92
The Cost of Drugs For Rare Diseases Is Threatening the US Health Care System 311
Google Tackles Fake News With Global Fact-Checking Rollout 230
Twitter Sues US Government Over Attempt To Unmask Anti-Trump Account 248
Bannon Loses National Security Council Role in Trump Shakeup 396
FCC Limits Order On Charter Extending Broadband Service 27
This Year's H-1B Visa Applications Look A Lot Like Last Year's 310
Net Neutrality Is Trump's Next Target, Administration Says 136
Verizon, AT&T, Comcast Say They Will Not Sell Customer Browsing Histories 125
'Verified' Is Now a Derogatory Term on Twitter 416
House Approves Bill To Force Public Release of EPA Science 422
Will VPNs Protect Your Privacy? It's Complicated 141
UW Professor: The Information War Is Real, and We're Losing It 444
Ivanka Trump To Take Coding Class With 5-Year-Old Daughter 366
FCC To Halt Expansion of Broadband Subsidies For Poor People 424
Activist Starts a Campaign To Buy and Publish Browsing Histories of Politicians Who Passed Anti-Privacy Law 325
'No Turning Back' on Brexit as Article 50 Triggered 667
US Congress Votes To Shred ISP Privacy Rules 547
Facebook Launches 'Town Hall' For Contacting Government Reps, Adds Local Election Reminders 69
After Healthcare Defeat, Can The Trump Administration Fix America's H-1B Visa Program? 566
'Dig Once' Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet To Much of the US 174
Trump Adds To NASA Budget, Approves Crewed Mission To Mars 313
FBI Director Comey Confirms Investigation Into Trump Campaign 537
US Federal Budget Proposal Cuts Science Funding 649
Google Tells Army of 'Quality Raters' To Flag Holocaust Denial 429
Justice Department Charging Russian Spies and Criminal Hackers in Yahoo Intrusion 57
FBI Says It Can't Release iPhone Hacking Tool Because It Might Still Be Useful 70
The Most Striking Thing About the WikiLeaks CIA Data Dump Is How Little Most People Cared 308
Nick Denton Predicts 'The Good Internet' Will Rise Again 135
New Bill Would Allow Employers To Demand Genetic Testing From Workers 397
U.S. Jobs, Pay Show Solid Gains in Trump's First Full Month 398
China Expresses Concern at Revelations in Wikileaks Dump of Hacked CIA Data 122
GOP Senators' New Bill Would Let ISPs Sell Your Web Browsing Data 300
Federal Criminal Probe Being Opened Into WikiLeaks' Publication of CIA Documents 236
Big Tech Lobbying Is On the Verge of Killing Right To Repair Legislation In Minnesota 136
Trump Renominates Ajit Pai For Five More Years at the FCC 57
Sprint 'Betting Big On Trump,' Could Merge With T-Mobile Or Comcast 89
US Suspends 'Expedited' H-1B Visas 295
Mike Pence Used His AOL Email For Indiana State Business -- and It Got Hacked 445
White House Supports Renewal of Spy Law Without Reforms 61
NSA Risks Talent Exodus Amid Morale Slump, Trump Fears 251
Samsung Chief Charged With Bribery and Embezzlement 22
FCC Chairman Says His Agency Won't Review AT&T's Time Warner Purchase 104
Canada's Top Mountie Issues Blistering Memo On IT Failures 116
FCC To Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches 119
FCC Votes To Lift Net Neutrality Transparency Rules For Smaller Internet Providers 115
'Social Media Needs A Travel Mode' 144
The Only Thing, Historically, That's Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe 516
Wyden To Introduce Bill To Prohibit Warrantless Phone Searches At Border 193
Congressman Calls For Probe Into Trump's Unsecured Android Phone 507
Accenture To Create 15,000 Jobs In US 202
Samsung Chief Lee Arrested In Corruption Investigation 24
Apple Will Fight 'Right To Repair' Legislation 310
Michael Flynn Resigns As Trump's National Security Adviser 895
H-1Bs Reduced Computer Programmer Employment By Up To 11%, Study Finds 271
CS Professor Argues Silicon Valley Is Exploiting Both H-1B Visas And Workers 318
Senators Push Trump Administration For Clarity On Privacy Act Exclusions 136
Russia Considers Sending Snowden Back To US As a 'Gift' To Trump 294
State-sponsored Hackers Targeting Prominent Journalists, Google Warns 102
Republicans Are Reportedly Using a Self-Destructing Message App To Avoid Leaks 326
Jeff Bezos Talks About Music Streaming, and His Political Ambitions 70
NSA Contractor Indicted Over Mammoth Theft of Classified Data 156
Apple CEO Tim Cook Tackles Truth in the Digital Age 214
Intel To Invest $7 Billion in Factory in Arizona, Employ 3,000 People 217
French Politician Uses Hologram To Hold Meetings In Two Cities At the Same Time 101
DC Inauguration Protestors Are Being Hit With Facebook Data Searches 341
US House Passes Bill Requiring Warrants To Search Old Emails 94
Microsoft's H-1B Workers Cited In Motion That Successfully Blocked Trump's Travel Ban 476
The Netherlands Opts For Manual Vote-Count Amid Cyberattack Fears 117
Hackers Take Over Unsecured Radio Transmitters, Play Anti-Trump Song 99
Reddit Bans Far-Right Groups Altright and Alternativeright 899
Secret Rules Make It Pretty Easy For the FBI To Spy On Journalists 189
Trump's Next Immigration Move To Affect H-1B Visas; Require Tech Companies To Try To Hire Americans First: Bloomberg 834
Trump's Executive Order Eliminates Privacy Act Protections For Foreigners 952
Tesla CEO Elon Musk Joins President Trump's New Manufacturing Council 137
Trump's FCC Chairman Pick Ajit Pai Vows To Close Broadband 'Digital Divide' 292
USDA Scrambles To Ease Concerns After Researchers Were Ordered To Stop Publishing Publicly Funded Science 372
Ask Slashdot: Can US Citizens Trust Government Data? 460
New Wyoming Bill Penalizes Utilities Using Renewable Energy 502
Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President 1560
Trump Trades in Android Phone For Secret Service-Approved Device 206
Tech Firm Creates Trump Monitor For Stock Markets 203
Julian Assange Will Not Hand Himself In Because Chelsea Manning's Release Won't Happen Immediately, Lawyer Says 564
CIA Releases 13M Pages of Declassified Documents Online 88
Russia Extends Edward Snowden's Asylum To 2020, To Offer Citizenship Next Year 278
Congress Will Consider Proposal To Raise H-1B Minimum Wage To $100,000 540
Trump's Cyber Security Advisor Rudy Giuliani Runs Ancient, Utterly Hackable Website 280
What's Happening As The University of California Tries To Outsource IT Jobs To India 483
US Releases Declassified Report On Russian Hacking, Concludes That Putin 'Developed a Clear Preference' For Trump 734
Obama Administration Releases Searchable Archive of Social Media Posts 110
New Analysis Shows Lamar Smith's Accusations On Climate Data Are Wrong 502
Zuckerberg Could Run Facebook While Serving in Government Forever 181

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