Government Stories for 2011

EA, Nintendo, Sony Quietly Withdraw SOPA Support 204
Running Great Britain? There's an App For That! 165
UK Ministry of Defense Improves War Games For Console Generation 102
TSA Got Everything It Wanted For Christmas 338
FDA Backtracks On Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Proposal 172
Rackspace: SOPA "Is a Deeply Flawed Piece of Legislation" 213
Apple Fined By Italy For Misleading Customers About Warranty Terms 218
What Life Was Like Inside the Hexagon Project 104
Android Approved By Pentagon 160
US Federal Reserve Data On Loans During Crisis Released 173
Inside Obama's Twitter Blitz On the Payroll Tax 294
USTR Publishes Rogue Sites List 82
ORNL's Newest Petaflop Climate Computer To Come Online For NOAA 66
Senators Recommend FTC Perform Antitrust Investigation Of Google 315
Denver Must Prove Red-Light Cameras Improve Safety 433
Ready For Your Payroll Software Update? 105
Domestic Surveillance Drones Could Spur Tougher Privacy Laws 209
In Australia, Even Private Facebook Photos Are Public 71
North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Il Dead at 70 518
Munich's Move To Linux Exceeds Target 235
Kazakhstan Disables the Internet , Telecomix Restores 156
How Does the CIA Keep Its IT Staff Honest? 238
No SOPA Vote Until 2012 181
FCC Pays $100K To Open Source Apps Challenge Winner 15
Congress's Techno-Ignorance No Longer Funny 477
Coming Soon: Ubiquitous Long-Term Surveillance From Big Brother 191
The Most Dangerous Toys of 2011 292
Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones 1003
US Bans Loud Commercials 289
Time's Person of the Year Is "The Protester" 543
NTSB Recommends Cell Phone Ban For Drivers 938
Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone 663
Publicly Available Russian Election Results Hint At Fraud 304
EU Regulators Delay Google's Motorola Buy, Seeking More Info 45
House Panel Moving Forward With SOPA 206
FBI Rejects Freedom of Information Act Request About Carrier IQ 156
Predator Drone Helps Nab Cattle Rustlers 214
Virginia May Help People Pay For Space Burials 145
LightSquared Disrupts 75% of GPS Connections In Government Test 197
Aerospace Corp Pays $2.5m To Settle Rogue Software Dev Case 129
Two SOPA Writers Become Entertainment Lobbyists 171
TSA Facing Death By a Thousand Cuts 493
Feds Return Mistakenly Seized Domain 243
GM, NHTSA Delayed Volt Warnings To Prop Up Sales 344
Iran Shuts Down US Virtual Embassy 451
Lawmaker Proposes Cyberthreat Sharing Group 41
India Moves To Censor Social Media 171
US Launches Virtual Embassy For Iran 174
EU Targets Apple In Ebook Investigation 99
Indian Minister Seeks To Censor User-Generated Content Online 82
New US Government Project To Monitor Electronic Communication 164
Senator Uses FCC Nomination Process To Question National Wireless Network 101
USPS Ending Overnight First-Class Letter Service 713
China Telecom Companies Pledge To Stop Monopolistic Practices 68
Russian Websites Critical of Elections Targeted In DDoS Attack 156
Iran's Military Claims To Have Downed US Surveillance Drone 522
Syria Bans iPhone, Protest App 69
Fed Gave Banks Eye-Popping Emergency Loans, Without Telling Congress 629
Interpreting the Constitution In the Digital Era 144
Europe Accuses Google of Monopoly Abuse 211
How Tech Vendors Help Governments Spy On Their Citizens 102
Patriot Act Clouds Picture For Tech 203
US Senator Proposes Bill To Eliminate Overtime For IT Workers 1167
UK Recruiting Codebreakers Via Social Networks 85
Tracking Censorship Through Copyright Proposals Worldwide 34
Should Composting Be Mandatory In US Cities? 861
Angry Snake Charmer Lets Snakes Loose In Gov't Office 0
China Wants Cyber Crisis Hotline 58
UK Announces "Cyber Strategy" 56
Obama Orders Federal Agencies To Digitize All Records 186
Behind the Government's Rules of Cyber War 117
Facebook Settles With FTC, Admits Privacy Violations 138
Internet Monitoring: Who Watches the Watchers? 75
California Going Ahead With Bullet Train 709
China To Cancel College Majors That Don't Pay 463
Palantir, the War On Terror's Secret Weapon 276
US Gov't Seizes 130+ More Domains In Crackdown 219
In Australia, Immunize Or Lose Benefits 680
Senator Wants 'Terrorist' Label On Blogs 370
iTunes Flaw Allowed Spying On Dissidents 82
FBI Scolds NASDAQ Over Out of Date Patches 66
Dutch Government Officially Trusts OpenVPN-NL 53
OSHA App Costs Gov't $200k 234
Ask Slashdot: Data Remanence Solutions? 209
US Government Probes Huawei and ZTE 122
88-Year-Old Inventor Hassled By the DEA 757
AT&T/T-Mobile Merger 'Not In the Public Interest' 190
Hosting Services May Be Breaking Syrian Sanctions 106
South Africa Passes Secrecy Bill, Makes Whistleblowing a Dangerous Act 118
Debt Reduction Super Committee Fails To Agree 954
Plate Readers Abound in DC Area, With Little Regard For Privacy 268
Swedish Pirate Party Member To Be EU's Youngest MP 152
Open Source Tool Lets Anyone Redistrict New York 102
In the EU, Water Doesn't (Officially) Prevent Dehydration 815
France To Tax the Internet To Pay For Music 209
US Gives Raytheon $10.5M For 'Serious Games' 108
Feds Investigating Water Utility Pump Failure As Possible Cyberattack 136
New Media Giants Take Out Print Ad Against SOPA 234
The $443 Million Smallpox Vaccine That Nobody Needs 290
Syrian Protesters Roll Out New iPhone Apps 105
Feds Helped Coordinate Occupy X Crackdowns 803
GAO Criticizes IRS Over Serious IT Deficiencies 57
Google Makes Its Search System Slightly More Transparent 50
Pirate Party Gains Another Seat In EU 156
French Power Company Fined For Hacking Greenpeace 196
Commercial Space: Spirit of Apollo Or Spirit of Solyndra? 157
Failures Mark First National Test of Emergency Alert System 451
Shanghai Government Proposes 100 Community Hackerspaces 76
The Political Assault On Los Alamos National Laboratory 215
Bipartisan Internet Sales Tax Bill Introduced 548
FBI Takes Out $14M DNS Malware Operation 57
Obama To Veto Anti-Net-Neutrality Legislation 355
Stop Online Piracy Act Supports Blacklisting, Says EFF 73
Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found On SUV 761
Scott Adams Proposes a Fourth Branch of Government 341
Bill Gates Advocates Tax On Financial Transactions 694
DARPA Seeks Input On Securing Networks Against Attackers 119
Could Crowd-Sourced Direct Democracy Work? 594
Slashdot Asks: Whom Do You Want To Ask About 2012's U.S. Elections? 343
White House Responds to ET/UFO Petitions 232
FEMA, FCC Hope To Forestall Panic Over National Emergency Alert 210
Copyright Demands Push Largest European Usenet Provider Permanently Offline 199
Did Feds' Use of Fake Cell Tower Constitute a Search? 191
Australia Approves Final R18+ Gaming Guidelines 67
Iranian Police Tracking Dissidents Using Tech From Western Companies 161
The CIA's Social Mining Department 110
DOJ Drops FOIA Rule To Permit Lying 151
Honolulu Tops 2011 Digital Cities Survey 35
Libya Elects Engineer To Acting Prime Minister Post 188
Julian Assange Loses Extradition Appeal 311
1st Strikes Issued Under New Zealand Anti-Piracy Laws 123
PROTECT-IP Makes Its Way To the Floors of Congress 145
White House Responds To Software Patents Petition 276
First Android Device Certified For DoD Personnel 79
Multi-Target Photo-Radar System To Make Speeding Riskier 506
Federal Contractors Are $600 Screwdrivers 593
Student Loans In America: the Next Big Credit Bubble 768
Ohio Emergency Responders Stage Mock Zombie Invasion 219
Helping the FBI Track You 193
Schools In Portugal Moving To OSS 319
Weaponizable Police UAV Now Operational In Texas 416
When Having the US Debt Paid Off Was a Problem 633
Blue Coat Concedes Its Devices Operating in Syria 90
RIM Helps Indian Authorities Access BlackBerry Messages 74
Rural Broadband to Replace POTS As Beneficiary of US Gov't Subsidies 208
Hackers Briefly Controlled US Government Satellites 261
PROTECT IP Renamed To the E-PARASITE Act 373
Americas New CIO Wants To Disrupt Government and Make It a Startup 287
New Version of PROTECT IP Bill May Target Legal Sites 115
FTC To Monitor Google's Privacy Practices For 20 Years 51
Nationwide Test of the Emergency Broadcast System 271
Solar Panel Trade War Heats Up 232
Feds Take USAjobs.gov Back From Monster, Performance Tanks 175
Senator Introduces Bill To Stop Warrantless GPS Tracking 133
A Digital Direct Democracy For the Modern Age 308
Proposed UK Online Libel Rules Would Restrict Anonymous Posting 219
TSA Doing Random Truck Searches On Tennessee Highway 578
Librarian Attacks Amazon's Kindle Lending Program 191
When Political Mapping Leaks Into Science Research 154
Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) 2247
ACTA Signed By 8 of 11 Participating Countries 213
EU Debates Installing a Black Box On Your Computer 459
German Surveillance Trojan Spies On Fifteen Apps 69
Feds Shy Away From Raiding Email Without Warrant 71
A Day In the Life of Privacy 103
District Attorney Critiques Gizmodo Emails In iPhone 4 Prototype Case 155
Australian Gov't To Streamline Anti-Piracy Lawsuit Process 121
SEC Says Public Firms May Need To Disclose Cyberattacks 21
US Copyright Czar Cozied Up To Content Industry 162
More Details On the German Government's Use of Malware 58
U.S. Senator Wyden Raises Constitutional Questions About ACTA 239
British Coalition Partner Attempts to Block Web Censorship Powers 58
Is the OMB Trying To End Planetary Exploration? 236
NYTimes Sues US Gov't To Know How It Interprets the PATRIOT Act 186
FTC Settles With Android Developer In Data Exposure Case 36
Blue Coat Denies Its Devices Helping Syrian Gov't 73
German State Confesses To, Downplays Government Spyware 104
California Governor Vetoes Ban On Warrantless Phone Searches 462
US Government Seizes Email of WikiLeaks Volunteer 217
Amazon Pushes For National Internet Sales Tax 392
High School Kills Color-Coded ID Program 406
German Government's Malware Analyzed 162
Florida School District Begins Fingerprinting Students 294
FBI Plans Nationwide Face-Recognition Trials In 2012 102
EU Parliament Group Opposes Long Copyrights and Oppressive DRM 172
DHS Goes Ahead With 'Pre-Crime' Detection Project 438
FCC Wants To Shift Phone Subsidy Funds To Broadband 211
Oracle To Pay US Almost $200M To Resolve False Claims Lawsuit 114
Iran Blocks VPN Ports 134
Big Brother Calls 'Shotgun' In Illinois 475
Telecomix Releases 54GB of Syrian Censorship Logs 51
Italian Wikipedia May Shut Down Due To New Legislation 292
Facebook Forming a PAC 217
Inside ICS-CERT's War Room 30
Should Science Be King In Politics? 737
Exploding Toilet Injures Two Government Workers 4
Wiki Editor Helps Reveal Pre-9/11 CIA Mistakes 176
Verizon Challenges FCC's Net Neutrality Rules 179
Privacy Groups Ask FTC For Facebook Investigation 68
Florida Reduces Penalties For 'Sexting' Teens 295
State Dept. Employee Investigated For Linking To WikiLeaks 172
An Operating System For Cities 216
Free Press Sues FCC Over Discrepancy In Net Neutrality Rules 71
Science Manual For US Judges 123
IBM Launches Parking Meter Analytics System 111
FBI Leaves Cleared Names On Terrorist Watch List 181
Healthcare Law Appealed To Supreme Court 1019
Google Drops Cloud Lawsuit Against US Government 86
Global Internet Governance Fight Looms 155
OnStar Reverses ToS Changes 90
The NSA Wants Its Own Smartphone 172
Senator Goes After 'Brazen' OnStar Privacy Shift 185
Accent Monitoring: Innovation Or Rights Violation? 448
EPA Bans CFC-Based Asthma Inhalers 394
US Gov't Pays IT Contractors Twice As Much As Its Own IT Workers 382
FCC Finalizes US Net Neutrality Rules 299
Italy Prepares '"One Strike" Anti-Piracy Law 219
Canberra Police Want Drones To Track Cars 154
Surveillance Case May Reveal FBI Cellphone Tracking Techniques 57
Ask Slashdot: Best ccTLD To Avoid Confiscation? 241
Verizon Chief Defends AT&T-T-Mobile Merger 128
UK's NHS Will Drop Delayed E-Records Project 86
Tax Loopholes No Longer Patentable 278
Justification For Canadian Copyright Reform Revealed 96
Feds Call Full-Tilt Poker a 'Global Ponzi Scheme' 436
British Govt Debates Swapping Printers For iPads 237
Senators Slam Firm For Online Background Check 196
Atlanta's Growing Video Surveillance System 189
Maine School District Gives iPad To Every Kindergartner 478
NRO Declassifies KH-9 Satellite 74
Startup Flees To Seattle Amid Amazon's Tax Fight 235
GPS Tracking of State Worker Raises Privacy Issues 173
Seismologist Manslaughter Trial Begins Next Week 185
ToS Violations No Longer a Crime (On Their Own) 162
Obama To Sign 'America Invents Act of 2011' Today 244
FCC To Test Opening White Spaces Up To Public 68
Medical Billing Codes For Injury Via Turtle Among Thousands Created by New Law 380
Jobs Bill Funds Safety Network With Spectrum Sale 147
Purported FBI Report Calls Anonymous a National Security Threat 159
UK Government Wants Google To Police Copyright 144
YouTube Disables Comments and User Uploads For Korean Users 237
How Game Makers Like EA Mine for Tax Breaks 123
How the Webb Space Telescope Got So Expensive 133
AT&T Responds To DoJ Lawsuit 140
New Legislation Would Punish Mishandling of Private Data 187
Algorithmic Trading Rapidly Replacing Need For Humans 331
Amazon Folds In California Sales Tax Deal 639
TSA Groper Files Suit Against Blogger 699
Why Patent Reform Won't Happen Anytime Soon 110
UK Government Breaks Open Source Promises 145

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