Government Stories for 2015

Feds: Your Employer Can't Stop You From Recording Conversations At Work 139
NSA Cheerleaders Discover Value of Privacy Only When Their Own Is Violated 267
Lessig: Future Tech Will Help Privacy Catch Up With the Internet 35
1st Circuit Injunction Re: TSA's New Mandatory AIT Search Rule Fully Briefed 122
Coding Styles Survive Binary Compilation, Could Lead Investigators Back To Programmers 164
Drone Registration Is FAA's Way of Getting You To Read Their "EULA" 131
Brazil's Biggest City Wants To Charge Fees For Uber Rides 77
CFR China Expert: US Tech Firms Should Worry About Beijing's New Anti-Terror Law 50
Russia Cancels All Moon Missions Till 2025 135
NASA Uncertain How To Proceed In Developing Deep Space Module 120
Dutch City To Experiment With Paying Citizens a "Basic Income" 474
TSA Moves Closer To Rejecting Some State Driver's Licenses For Airline Travel 428
Database of 191 Million US Voters Exposed On Internet 77
FAA's Drone Laws Clash With Local Regulations 115
China Passes Law Requiring Tech Firms To Hand Over Encryption Keys 170
North Korea's Operating System Analyzed 98
How a Young IRS Agent Identified the Man Behind Silk Road 163
Dissecting a $231 Million High-Tech Boondoggle 139
Justice Department Shuts Down Huge Asset Forfeiture Program 232
Australian Government Tells Citizens To Turn Off Two-factor Authentication 146
Motion Filed In 1st Circuit To Enjoin TSA's New Mandatory "AIT" Screening 129
Wyndham Settlement: No Fine, But More Power To the FTC 17
FTC Issues New Rules for Native Advertising on the Internet 120
USPTO Power Outage Damages Equipment and Shuts Down IT Systems 62
Investigation Into Security Director Who Hacked the Lottery Expands 167
Schneier: We Need a Better Way of Regulating New Technologies 123
TSA Body Scanner Opt-out No Longer Guaranteed 278
US Stops British Muslim Family From Boarding Flight To Visit Disneyland 704
The Science Behind the Paris Climate Accords 118
DOE Launches Nuclear Waste Disposal Initiative 143
DHS's Ongoing Drone Boondoggle 77
FAA Drone Rules May Already Be Outlawed By Congress 226
FAA Admits Names & Addresses In Drone Registry Will Be Publicly Available 300
ICANN's Ex CEO Fronts Chinese Initiative On Running the Internet 55
Tim Cook Calls Apple's Tax Questions 'Political Crap' 456
Should a Mars Colony Be Independent? 295
US Budget Bill Passes With CISA Surveillance Intact 153
White House Expected To Announce Big Computer Science Push 161
NSF and Federal Partners Award $37M To Advance Nation's Co-robots 13
LifeLock Agrees To Pay $100 Million Fine In Settlement With FTC 50
Catalogue of Government Gear For Cellphone Spying 69
Do Tax Breaks For Data Centers Make Sense? 94
Tacoma Goes All In To Support Municipal Fiber 90
The FAA To Facilitate American Commercial Participation In the ESA Moon Village 31
CISA Surveillance Bill Hidden Inside Last Night's Budget Bill 166
Go To Jail For Visiting a Web Site? Top Law Prof Talks Up the Idea 563
Marco Rubio and Other Senators Move To Block Municipal Broadband 352
'Do Not Track' Bill Aims To Let Consumers Reject Online Tracking 75
Carly Fiorina Says Government Needs a Way To "Work Around" Encryption 345
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Now Can Perform Marriages In New Zealand 209
Bangladesh Extends Social Media Ban, Blocking Twitter and Skype 44
NY Attorney General Wants Public To Report Broadband Speeds 99
FAA: Small Drones Must Be Registered By February 533
A Typo Almost Derailed Paris Climate Deal 339
North Carolina Town Defeats Big Solar's Plan To Suck Up the Sun 760
Why Governments Lie About Encryption Backdoors 247
WSJ: New Education Bill To Get More Coding In Classrooms 88
FBI: Just Don't Call Them Backdoors 347
DHS Deployed Plane Above San Bernardino To Scoop Up All Phone Calls After Attack 147
Paris Climate Deal Adopted 292
Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump 365
Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 543
US Navy's $700 Million Mine-drone Won't Hunt 92
France Will Not Ban Wi-Fi Or Tor, Prime Minister Says 89
NHTSA Toughens Crash Test Rating Standards 165
How the Thirty Meter Telescope Ruling Will Impact Future Astronomy Projects 251
Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption 556
UK's National Crime Agency Publishes Crazy Cyber-Crime Warning Signs 151
Qualcomm Faces Antitrust Charges In Europe 33
Eric Schmidt Proposes 'Hate Spell-Checker' For Radical and Terrorist Content 305
Theremin's Bug Let Soviets Spy On USA For More Than 7 Years 99
In Kazakhstan, the Internet Backdoors You 94
Donald Trump: America Should Consider "Closing the Internet Up In Some Way" 735
Senators: Has Uncle Sam Paid Off Ransomware Criminals? 53
NASA 'Moving On' From Low-Earth Orbit 118
French Legislation Would Block Tor and Restrict Free Wi-Fi 115
Paris Climate Change Talks Yield First Draft 138
Hillary Clinton Urges Silicon Valley To 'Disrupt' ISIS 452
Congress Joins Battle Against Ticket Bots 150
How To Lead a Nation That's About To Be Swallowed By the Sea 289
California Attack Has US Rethinking Strategy On Homegrown Terror 676
FTC Appoints EFF Board Member Lorrie Cranor As Chief Technologist 50
Iran's Military Nuclear Program Lasted Longer Than We Thought 134
Court: 'Repugnant' Online Discussions Aren't Thoughtcrime 155
Choose a Better Train With Web Scraping 50
Microsoft, Law Enforcement Disrupt Dorkbot Botnet 31
Patriot Act Author Warns EU Against Dragnet Response To Terror 138
IT Worker Fired After Massive Georgia Data Breach Speaks Out 113
Microsoft Promotes New Trade Secrets Bill 28
China Blamed For Attack On Australian Bureau of Meteorology 44
IRS: We Used Stingray Devices To Track 37 Phones 63
DHS Offering Free Vulnerability Scans, Penetration Tests 79
Revealed: What Info the FBI Can Collect With a National Security Letter 93
HTTP/2.0 Opens Every New Connection It Makes With the Word 'PRISM' 200
It's Getting Harder To Reside Anonymously In a Modern City 100
BlackBerry Exits Pakistan Amid User Privacy Concerns 71
France Using Emergency Powers To Prevent Climate Change Protests 248
NSA To End Bulk Phone Surveillance By Sunday 139
Greenwald: Why the CIA Is Smearing Edward Snowden After Paris Attacks 298
BBC World Service To Provide Radio For North Korea and Eritrea 64
With $160 Billion Merger, Pfizer Moves To Ireland and Dodges Taxes 365
FAA To Drone Owners: Get Ready To Register To Fly 195
Nearly 35,000 Comment On New Federal STEM OPT Extension Rule 55
Australian State Bans Possession of Blueprints For 3D Printing Firearms 313
How Anonymous' War With Isis Is Actually Harming Counter-Terrorism 393
US and China Setting Up "Space Hotline" 15
Blackberry Offers 'Lawful Device Interception Capabilities' 137
Florida Group Wants To Make Space a 2016 Presidential Campaign Issue 118
Ex-CIA Director Says Snowden Should Be 'Hanged' For Paris Attacks 486
Donald Trump Obliquely Backs a Federal Database To Track Muslims 608
Judge: Stingrays Are 'Simply Too Powerful' Without Adequate Oversight 111
File Says NSA Found Way To Replace Email Program 93
EU Set To Crack Down On Bitcoin and Anonymous Payments After Paris Attack 275
FDA Signs Off On Genetically Modified Salmon Without Labeling 514
Manhattan DA Pressures Google and Apple To Kill Zero Knowledge Encryption 291
Georgia Gives Personal Data of 6 Million Voters To Georgia GunOwner Magazine 110
Carnegie Mellon Denies FBI Paid For Tor-Breaking Research 79
US Rep. Joe Barton Has a Plan To Stop Terrorists: Shut Down Websites 275
DoJ Going After Makers of Dietary Supplement 161
FCC Clarifies: It's Legal To Hack Your Router 85
Brazilian Army Gets Hacked After Allegations of Cheating In Security Cyber-Games 34
Quebec Introduces Bill To Mandate ISP Website Blocking 137
Same Birthday, Same Social Security Number, Same Mess For Two Florida Women 214
Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If One Is On a Watchlist? 400
Tor Project Claims FBI Paid University Researchers $1m To Unmask Tor Users 108
Broadband Bills Will Have To Increase To Pay For Snooper's Charter, MPs Warned 77
Bill Confirming Property Rights For Asteroid Miners Passes the Senate 171
2016 Presidential Candidate Security Investigation 97
DNA Data From California Newborn Blood Samples Stored, Sold To 3rd Parties 187
In Ireland, All RC and Drones Over 1kg To Be Registered 108
UK Gov't Can Demand Backdoors, Give Prison Sentences For Disclosing Them 187
US Spends $1bn Over a Decade Trying To Digitize Immigration Forms, Just 1 Is Online 305
Coming Set-top Box Mandate May Help Break Pay TV Firms' Hold Over Viewers 153
Going Dark Crypto Debate Going Nowhere 111
$1 Bid Wins Government Open Source Software Purchasing Experiment 124
The European Commission Is Preparing a Frontal Attack On the Hyperlink 220
NSA Uses Vulnerabilities Before It Discloses Them, Keeps Some To Itself 121
Muzzled Canadian Scientists Can Now Speak Freely With Public 197
MI5 'Secretly Collected Phone Data' For Decade 38
Canada Reinstates Mandatory Census, To Delight of Social Scientists 284
"Unsecured Memory Card" Prompts Election Fraud Investigation In Georgia 172
Full Text of Trans-Pacific Partnership Released (Officially, This Time) 247
UK and US Suspect That ISIS Bomb Took Down Flight 9268 289
Federal Prison System Wants Anti-Drone Technology 156
How California Police Are Tracking Your Biometric Data In the Field 46
Why the Snowden Situation Shows 'Protected Disclosure' Is Critical 239
How the FBI Can Detain, Render and Threaten Without Risk 318
Why Avast Won't Show Source Code To the Government, But Others Do 79
Virginia Radio Station Broadcasting Chinese Propaganda 294
US Government IT Outsourcing Is Poorly Managed 85
Feds Have a Plan For Catastrophic Solar Flares 188
EU Parliament: Citizens' Rights Still Endangered By Mass Surveillance 53
EFF Asks Appeals Court To "Shut Down the Eastern District of Texas" 67
Finland Begins To Shape Basic Income Proposal 674
Ask Slashdot: Securing a Journalist's Laptop Against a Police Search? 324
A Push To Ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty? 67
Mexican Senator Drafts One of the World's Worst Internet Laws 163
UK Plans To Allow Warrantless Searches of Internet History 136
Non-Binding Resolution: EU States Should Protect Snowden 210
Hackers, Activists, Journos: How To Build a Secure Burner Laptop 139
China Ends One-Child Policy 279
Could the Volkswagen Cheating Scandal Improve Emissions Standards? 144
Military Blimp Breaks Free and Drifts Over the Mid-Atlantic Trailing Tether 196
Debt Collectors Sneaking Robocall Exemptions Into Budget Bill 216
Pentagon Picks Northrop Grumman For Next Gen Bomber 237
EU Passes Net Neutrality Rules, Fails To Close Loopholes 59
US Senate Passes the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act 74-21 157
DRM Circumvention Now Lawful For More Devices 106
The IRS Has Stingray Devices 83
Is Buying Cuban Software Legal In the US? The Answer is Hazy 75
Judge: School's Facebook Post is a Campaign Contribution 86
Study: Standardized Tests Overwhelming Public Schools 278
Does Government Science Funding Drive Innovation? 248
California's $68 Billion Bullet Train Project Faces Major Hurdles 342
Oklahoma Earthquakes Are a National Security Threat 166
The Army Bug Bounty Program: a Critical Need In Defense 90
Full Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Intellectual Property Chapter Analyzed 109
Affordable Care Act Exchanges Fail To Detect Counterfeit Documentation 246
Google, Facebook, Microsoft Deliver K-12 CS Demands To Congress 120
Government Team Experiments With Paying For Small Open Source Tasks 90
Secret Service Allowed To Use Warrantless Cellphone Tracking 104
Security Researchers Face Revenge of Spy Agencies 120
UK Government Proposes 'License To Hack' As Encryption Proves Hard To Defeat 80
The NYPD's X-Ray Vans 190
DHS To Extend OPT To 60 Months, Says Employers, Universities, Students Demand It 178
US Will Clean Area In Spain Where Hydrogen Bombs Fell 216
Feds Looking Into Reports CIA Director's Email Was Hacked 100
The Problem With Mandatory Drone Registration 223
Despite Promises, China Still Targeting US Firms 125
Americans Show 'Surprising Willingness' To Accept Internet Surveillance 223
Getting Over Getting Over Uber: Tim O'Reilly Does the Math 385
NBC News Reports US Will Require Registration For Consumer Drones 235
US Identifies ISIL Hacker Linked To Military Breaches 83
FCC's WiFi Rule-Making: Making It Fair For Both Open Source and Proprietary 173
UK MPs Hold Emergency Debate After Court Makes It Legal For GCHQ To Spy On Them 140
UCF Researchers Perform World's First Automated Mass-Crowd Count 32
Big Data Attempts To Find Meaning In 40 Years of UK Political Debate 44
The United States and Israel Sign Space Cooperation Agreement 145
How Putin Tried To Control the Internet 245
Court: Lawsuit Over NYPD Surveillance of Muslims Can Proceed 253
Treat Computer Science As a Science: It's the Law 219
Australian ISPs Not Ready For Mandatory Data Retention 85
British Police Stop 24/7 Monitoring of Julian Assange At Ecuadorian Embassy 336
Bernie Sanders Comes Out Against CISA 211
Electoral System That Lessig Hopes To Reform Is Keeping Him Out of the Debate 239
Facebook UK Paid £35m In Staff Bonuses, But Only £4,327 In Corporation Tax 262
The World of Luxury Bomb Shelters 286
China Arrests Hackers At Behest of US Government 74
Over 10,000 Problems Fixed In Detroit Thanks To Cellphone App 159
EFF: the Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared 399
US Government Will Not Force Companies To Decode Encrypted Data... For Now 110
ESR On Why the FCC Shouldn't Lock Down Device Firmware 144
FAA Proposes $1.9 Million Fine For Unauthorized Drone Use 228
EU Court of Justice Declares US-EU Data Transfer Pact Invalid 205
What Non-Geeks Hate About the Big Bang Theory 406
Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached 278
Sex, Drugs, and Transportation: How Politicians Tried To Keep Uber Out of Vegas 136
Selected Provisions: TPP, CETA, and TiSA Trade Agreements 43
Soon-to-Be US Ed Chief Was Almost FB CEO's Ed Chief 30
DHS Detains Mayor of Stockton, CA, Forces Him To Hand Over His Passwords 399
EPA Gave Volkswagen a Free Pass On Emissions Ten Years Ago Due To Lack of Budget 203
Xiaomi Investigated For Using Superlatives In Advertising, Now Illegal In China 109
Former Cisco CEO: China, India, UK Will Lead US In Tech Race Without Action 109
Uber Raided By Dutch Authorities, Seen As 'Criminal Organization' 471
Carly Fiorina: I Supplied HP Servers For NSA Snooping 488
Snowden Joins Twitter, Follows NSA 206
How the FBI Hacks Around Encryption 91
Doctors On Edge As Healthcare Gears Up For 70,000 Ways To Classify Ailments 232
Europe Agrees To Agree With Everyone Except US What 5G Should Be 164
UberX Runs Into Trouble In Australia With NSW Suspending Vehicle Registration 166
Edward Snowden Promotes Global Treaty To Curtail Surveillance 110
Analysis: China-US Hacking Accord Is Tall On Rhetoric, Short On Substance 38
EPA To Overhaul Emissions Testing In the Wake of VW Cheating 203
Don't Worry, That Blimp Isn't Watching You Much 43
FTC Begins Investigating Google For Antitrust Violations Over "Home Screen Advantage" 151
GCHQ Tried To Track Web Visits of "Every Visible User On Internet" 86
Nuclear Energy: The Good News and the Bad News In the EPA Clean Energy Plan 121
Saudi Arabia Almost Bought Hacking Team 26
Speaker of the House Boehner Announces Resignation 406
Making Mining the Asteroids and the Moon Legal 162
Phone Passwords Protected By 5th Amendment, Says Federal Court 178
OPM Says 5.6 million Fingerprints Stolen In Cyberattack 93
Researchers Push For Access To Confidential Government Records of the Public 14
Legislation Requiring Tech Industry To Report Terrorist Activity Dropped 30
Michigan Sues HP Over Decade Long, $49 Million Incomplete Project 203
RIP: Tech Advocate and Obama Advisor Jake Brewer 142
South Korea's "Smart Sheriff" Nanny App Puts Children At Risk 54
Veteran FBI Employee Accused of Trying To Beat Polygraph, Suspended Without Pay 262
Delete, Dump and Destroy: Canada's Government Data Severely Compromised 85
UK Govt's Expensive Mobile Coverage Project Builds Just 8 Masts In 4 Years 75

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