Government Stories for 2019

How Tech Companies Could Skirt California's Strict New Privacy Law 33
Are Government Shutdowns of the Internet Becoming The World's New Normal? 111
Trump Could Mandate Free Access To Federally Funded Research Papers 194
New Law Finally Bans Bullshit Cable TV Fees 49
How Cruise Ships Bring 1,200 Tons of Toxic Fumes To Brooklyn a Year 71
Electric Bikes and Scooters Will Stay Illegal In New York Thanks To Governor Cuomo 82
Huawei Reportedly Got By With a Lot of Help From the Chinese Government 47
The US Government Has Approved Funds for Geoengineering Research 150
Pentagon Wants Open-Source 5G Plan in Campaign Against Huawei 64
Iran Curbs Internet Before Possible New Protests 21
Russia 'Successfully Tests' Its Unplugged Internet 41
Mike Bloomberg Is Plowing Millions of Dollars Into a Secretive Tech Firm Called Hawkfish 62
New York Governor Promises Net Neutrality Legislation In 2020 21
The Navy's Flawed Bridge Technology Set the USS McCain Up For Disaster 167
40% of Anti-Vaccine Group's Funding Came From Wealthy 'Alternative Health' Vendor 110
Vox Media Fires Hundreds of Freelance Writers, Blaming California's 'Gig Economy' Law 178
Brookline Votes To Ban Face Surveillance 32
US Government Lists Fictional Nation Wakanda as Trade Partner 65
Multiple States Are Investigating Intuit Over TurboTax Free File Marketing 36
SpaceX Is Lobbying Against Amazon's Internet-Beaming Satellites 42
Robocall Fines Rise To $10,000 Per Call Under Newly Passed Law 62
House Impeaches President Trump For Abuse of Power, Obstruction of Congress 1183
House Calls 'Save the Internet Act' One of Its Biggest 2019 Accomplishments 49
Judge Rules Edward Snowden Can't Profit From His Book 104
Facebook Fails To Convince Lawmakers It Needs To Track Your Location At All Times 25
FCC Funds 25Mbps, Data-Capped Satellite In Rural Areas 53
Will China Export Its Surveillance Technology? 54
Arizona Man Sues State Agency Over Right To Call Himself an Engineer 210
America's FCC Votes Unanimously To Divide 'Safety Spectrum' Into Wifi and Auto Applications 64
More Small Tests Are Happening For Universal Basic Incomes 285
America Considers Declassifying Military Information on US, Chinese, and Russian Space Programs 55
India Shuts Down Internet Once Again, This Time In Assam and Meghalaya 66
New Orleans City Government Shuts Off Computers After Cyberattack 30
AT&T Drops Out of FCC Speed-Test Program So It Can Hide Bad Results 53
Google Hands Feds 1,500 Phone Locations In Unprecedented 'Geofence' Search 53
988 Will Be the New 911 For Suicide Prevention 66
FTC May Try To Delay Facebook's Plan To Integrate its Apps 9
Genetic Database That Identified Golden State Killer Acquired By Crime Scene DNA Company 39
Chinese Newspaper Touts Videogame Where Players 'Hunt Down Traitors' in Hong Kong 96
Reddit Bans 61 Accounts, Citing 'Coordinated' Russian Campaign To Interfere In UK Vote 135
The U.S. Considers Ban on Exporting Surveillance Technology To China 73
Trump Administration Drops Plans For Mandatory Face Scans of Citizens 31
FTC Finds Cambridge Analytica Deceived Facebook Users 11
Filmmakers Sue State Department Over Social Media Surveillance Rules 20
US Shows a 'Concerning Lack of Regard For the Privacy of People's Biometrics' 58
2020 US Census Plagued By Hacking Threats, Cost Overruns 66
Huawei Manages To Make Smartphones Without American Chips 123
FBI Asked Sony For Data On User Who Used PlayStation Network To Sell Cocaine 39
Dutch Politician Faces 3 Years In Prison For Hacking iCloud Accounts, Leaking Nudes 31
FaceApp and Other Russian Apps Pose Potential Counterintelligence Threats, Says FBI 22
DHS Wants Airport Face Recognition Scans To Include US Citizens 104
Putin Signs Law Making Russian Apps Mandatory On Smartphones, Computers 64
Prominent Tech Execs Sign Renewed Commitment To Paris Agreement 131
What Happened After The Explosion at a Virology Campus in Siberia? 34
Facebook Bows to Singapore's 'Fake News' Law, Posts 'Correction' 37
How Russian Trolls Spread Propaganda Using Uplifting Tweets 164
Walmart Dodged US Tax on $2 Billion by Routing Cash Through Multiple Countries, Whistleblower Says 226
Only a Few 2020 US Presidential Candidates Are Using a Basic Email Security Feature 88
Oracle Responds To Wage Discrimination Claims By Suing US Department of Labor 125
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Are Still Rising, UN Report Says 263
AT&T and Verizon Agree To Change Their eSIM Practices 15
It's Way Too Easy To Get a .gov Domain Name 42
Psilocybin For Major Depression Granted Breakthrough Therapy By FDA 89
US Police Already Using 'Spot' Robot From Boston Dynamics In the Real World 36
The California DMV Is Making $50 Million a Year Selling Drivers' Personal Info 62
Police Can Keep Ring Camera Video Forever, and Share With Whomever They'd Like 107
What Caused Uber's Fatal 2018 Crash? NTSB Reveals Its Findings 82
Defecting Chinese Spy Offers Information Trove To Australian Government 82
NYC Creates a High-Level Position To Oversee Ethics In AI 58
DOD Joins Fight Against 5G Spectrum Proposal, Citing Risks To GPS 33
Russia Bans Sale of Gadgets Without Russian-Made Software 78
FCC Chairman Wants Public Auction To Repurpose Satellite Bands For 5G 65
Senator Introduces Bill That Would Block US Companies From Storing Data In China 49
India Says Law Permits Agencies To Snoop on Citizens' Devices 35
Facebook, Google Donate Heavily To Privacy Advocacy Groups 30
Why Two Pentesters In Iowa Are Facing A Criminal Investigation and Trespassing Charges 110
Most Americans Think They're Being Constantly Tracked, Study Finds 73
Germany Forces Apple To Let Other Mobile Wallet Services Use iPhone's NFC Chip 56
White House Unveils Rules Requiring Online Disclosure of Hospital Prices 119
Andrew Yang Wants To Tax Digital Ads, Launch a New Algorithm Regulator 126
Amazon Appeals Pentagon's Choice of Microsoft For $10 Billion Cloud Contract 78
Uber Hit With $650 Million Employment Tax Bill In New Jersey 152
GitHub Faces More Resignations In Light of ICE Contract 226
The NYPD Kept an Illegal Database of Juvenile Fingerprints For Years 63
Facebook Says Government Demands For User Data Are at a Record High 31
A US Federal Court Finds Suspicionless Searches of Phones at the Border is Illegal 127
IRS Identifies 'Dozens' of New Crypto, Cybercriminals 57
EPA To Limit Science Used To Write Public Health Rules 273
Thousands of Bots Are Retweeting Claims of Voter Fraud In Kentucky 314
Phones and PCs Sold In Russia Will Have To Come Pre-installed With Russian Apps 75
DHS Will Soon Have Biometric Data On Nearly 260 Million People 40
A Bipartisan Group of Senators Wants To Extend the Space Station To 2030 56
Vast Dragnet Targets Theft of Biomedical Secrets For China 58
Former Twitter Employees Charged With Spying For Saudi Arabia 32
IBM Calls For Regulation To Avoid Facial Recognition Bans 60
Alcohol Breath Tests, a Linchpin of the Criminal Justice System, Are Often Unreliable 136
Undercover Reporter Reveals Life In a Polish Troll Farm 101
US Begins Formal Withdrawal From Paris Climate Accord 245
Facebook Rebrands To 'FACEBOOK' As Calls For Government-Led Breakup Continue 62
ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says 70
Are Amazon's 'Ring' Cameras Exacerbating Societal Inequality? 437
Waymo Complains California's Government Says Its Robotaxi Service Must Be Free For Now 36
New Russian 'Sovereign Internet' Law Gives Government Sweeping Power Over Internet 77
Senator Introduces Bill Banning Facial Recognition Tech In Public Housing 47
Pentagon Awaits Possible Amazon Challenge Over Cloud Deal 50
US Opens National Security Investigation Into TikTok 30
US Interior Department To Ground Its Drones Over Chinese Spying Risk 33
After Spike In Deaths, New York To Get 250 Miles of Protected Bike Lanes 201
FCC Moves To Cut Off Huawei, ZTE From Subsidies 36
A Google Staffer Helped Sell Trump's Family Separation Policy, Despite The Company's Denials 223
How the 2018 Olympic Cyberattack Was Traced To Russian Hackers 29
America's Trade Commission Accused of 'Rewarding Bad Actors' Posting Fake Online Reviews 18
Russian Cyberattackers Stole Iranian Tools, Then Attacked 35 Countries 20
Calculation Errors and Inadequate Peer Review Led To Miami Bridge's Collapse 73
Microsoft Beats Amazon To Win the Pentagon's $10 Billion JEDI Cloud Contract 51
Netflix and Spotify Might Be Required To Issue Emergency Alerts From the Government Just Like TV and Radio 55
TikTok Raises National Security Concerns in Congress as Schumer, Cotton Ask for Federal Review 32
'Hyperstealth' Invisibility Cloak Developed For Military Use 113
47 US Attorneys General Are Investigating Facebook For Antitrust Violations 40
US Takes Step To Require DNA Samples From Asylum-Seekers 357
Andrew Yang Wants a Thorium Reactor By 2027 256
Is Andrew Yang Wrong About Robots Taking Our Jobs? 159
'How Andrew Yang Would Fix The Internet' 100
Australia's Buggy Automated System Suspended 1 Million Welfare Payments This Year 90
Russian Cyber-Espionage Group Controlled Its Malware Partly Through Reddit Posts 18
Blizzard Criticized By Bipartisan Group of US Lawmakers (Including Ron Wyden, Marco Rubio, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) 32
Would You Trust Amazon To Run Free and Fair Elections? 80
The Most Important Right-To-Repair Hearing Yet Is On Monday 32
New Bill Promises an End To Our Privacy Nightmare, Jail Time To CEOs Who Lie 166
Senators Propose Near-Total Ban On Worker Noncompete Agreements 109
Berkeley City Council Unanimously Votes To Ban Face Recognition 48
China's Helicopter Prototype Looks Like a UFO 60
FCC Votes To Approve T-Mobile-Sprint Merger 47
Twitter Says It Will Restrict Users From Retweeting World Leaders Who Break Its Rules 76
PG&E Should Compensate Customers For Power Shutoffs, California Governor Says 174
China Has Gained the Ability To Spy On More Than 100 Million Citizens Via a Heavily Promoted Official App, Report Suggests 47
Fired EPA Scientists To Release Air Pollution Report They Say Agency Unqualified To Issue 128
Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower: US Heading In 'Same Direction As China' With Online Privacy 44
Blizzard In Hot Water With Lawmakers For Hearthstone Player's Ban 170
California Bans Political Deepfakes During Election Season 168
Senator Proposes Mandatory Labeling For Products With Mics, Cameras 42
US Expands Blacklist To Include China's Top AI Startups Ahead of Trade Talks 70
Adobe Is Deactivating All Venezuelan Accounts To Comply With US Sanctions 262
Big ISPs Worry DNS-Over-HTTPS Could Stop Monitoring and Modifying of DNS Queries 156
Fake News Posters In Singapore Will Face Fines, Prison Sentences Under New Law 55
Libertarian Accused of Faking 1.5M Net Neutrality Comments Using Data-Breached Addresses 60
New Universal Basic Income Experiment Finds 40% of Money Spent On Food 268
Hong Kong Announces Ban On Masks, Face Paint That Helps Protesters Evade Facial Recognition 171
Tesla Is Being Investigated For a Software Update Meant To Limit Fire Risk 35
US, UK Sign Pact To Share Electronic Evidence in Criminal Cases 73
EFF Wins Access To License Plate Reader Data To Study Law Enforcement Use 62
Government Plans To Collect DNA From Detained Immigrants 232
Iraq Shuts Down Internet Access As Mass Protests Turn Violent 55
Motorola, Known For Cellphones, is Fast Becoming a Major Player in Government Surveillance 51
Leaked Zuckerberg Audio Reveals Facebook's Plan To Sue the US Government If Elizabeth Warren Tries To Break Up Big Tech 239
US Dept of Education Has Big Payday For K-12 CS, Including Tech-Backed Code.org 47
California Governor Signs Bill Allowing College Athletes To Profit 127
US Treasury Goes After the Planes and Yacht of Russia's Troll Farm Founder 59
Google's DNS-Over-HTTPS Plans Scrutinized By US Congress 130
America's CIA Reportedly Spied on Julian Assange In the Ecuador Embassy 119
Facebook and WhatsApp Will Be Forced to Share Encrypted Messages With British Police 128
Should We Build A Publicly-Funded Social Media Platform? 110
New Federal Rules Limit Police Searches of Family Tree DNA Databases 40
Study Proves the FCC's Core Justification For Killing Net Neutrality Was False 95
Amazon Is Writing Its Own Facial Recognition Laws To Pitch To Lawmakers 25
Facebook Confirms Its 'Standards' Don't Apply To Politicians 89
Microsoft Is Still Rattled Over US 'Sneak-and-Peek' Searches 65
Trump Impeachment Inquiry Opens as Call Transcript Is Released 704
China Boosts Government Presence At Alibaba, Private Giants 74
As Criticism Grows After Crashes, Boeing Committee May Recommend Organizational Changes 93
In Hong Kong, Protesters and Police Are Now Doxxing Each Other 46
Today is Code for America's 'National Day of Civic Hacking' 12
Developer Takes Down Ruby Library After He Finds Out ICE Was Using It 463
Edward Snowden Wants To Come Home: 'I'm Not Asking For a Pass. What I'm Asking For is a Fair Trial' 237
Experts Warn World 'Grossly Unprepared' For Future Pandemics 148
The FBI Tried To Plant a Backdoor in an Encrypted Phone Network 29
California Governor Signs Labor Law, Setting Up Bitter Gig Economy Fight 168
Spouse of Ring Exec Among Lawmakers Trying To Weaken California Privacy Law 45
Drivers May Choose Electric Car Alert Sounds, US Proposal Says 144
Online Lenders Publicly Shame Debtors in the Philippines Using Their Facebook Contacts 65
Two Penetration Testers Arrested For Attempted Burglary 63
EPA Rolls Back Obama-Era Regulations On Clean Water 206
Israel Accused of Planting Mysterious Spy Devices Near the White House 113
Government Orders Google: Let Employees Speak Out 72
281 Alleged Email Scammers Arrested In Massive Global Sweep 57
We Need To Prepare for the Future of War, NSA Official Says 57
NYC Mayor and Presidential Hopeful Bill De Blasio Wants a Tax On Robots 88
YouTube's Fine Criticized As Proof US Government Is 'Not Serious' About Big Tech Crackdown 63
'It Shouldn't Be This Hard To Responsibly Fly a Drone' 67
South Africa, UK Acknowledge Mass Surveillance By Tapping Undersea Internet Cables 56
COBOL Turns 60. Why It Will Outlive Us All 163
Feds Order Apple and Google To Hand Over Names of 10,000+ Users of Gun Scope App 123
Connecticut Governor Calls For 100 Percent Carbon-Free Power By 2040 192
Federal Judge Says Terrorist Watchlist Is Unconstitutional 165
Electric Car Charge Posts To Be Installed In Every New Home In England 185
Senator: Mark Zuckerberg Should Face 'the Possibility of a Prison Term' 135
Trump Administration Is Rolling Back Rules Requiring More Energy-Efficient Bulbs 391
Scottish Developers Announce Subsidy-Free Onshore Wind Farm 101
The Plan To Use Fitbit Data To Stop Mass Shootings Is One of the Scariest Proposals Yet 244
Trump Launches Space Command 190
FTC Is Investigating Juul's Marketing Practices 47
EPA To Roll Back Regulations On Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas 141
Microsoft Vendors Win a $7.6 Billion Deal for Pentagon Software 43
DOJ: Former FBI Director James Comey Violated Policy On His Trump Memos -- But Won't Be Prosecuted 197
US Cyberattack Hurt Iran's Ability To Target Oil Tankers, Officials Say 58
It Was Sensitive Data From a US Anti-Terror Program -- and Terrorists Could Have Gotten To It For Years, Records Show 40
US Govt Considers Changing Requirements for Rocket Launches. Commercial Space Group Objects 14
Qualcomm Wins a Pause In Enforcement of FTC Ruling 5
Trump Orders US Businesses To Find Alternative To China 473
YouTube Pressured To Ban Chinese State Media Ads That Spread Misinformation About Protesters 29
Justice Department Indicts 80 Individuals, Most in Nigeria, in a Massive Business Email Scam Bust 41
How Malformed Packets Caused CenturyLink's 37-Hour, Nationwide Outage 29
Massive Ransomware Attack Hits 23 Local Texas Government Offices 52
YouTube's Algorithms Blamed For Brazil's Dangerous Conspiracy Video-Sharing on WhatsApp 69
Dreams of Offshore Servers Haunt The Ocean-Based Micronation of 'Sealand' 43
US Set To Give Huawei Another 90 Days To Buy From American Suppliers 18
Judge Orders Georgia To Switch To Paper Ballots For 2020 Elections 120
India Shut Down Kashmir's Internet Access 40
Trump Administration Asks Congress To Reauthorize NSA's Deactivated Call Records Program 59
FBI Seeks To Monitor Facebook, Oversee Mass Social Media Data Collection 105
FAA Bans Recalled MacBook Pros From Flights 39
US Significantly Weakens Endangered Species Act 146
DARPA Hopes To Develop an AI Tool That Can Detect Deepfakes 79
Antitrust Issues? Amazon Pressured Sellers Offering Cheaper Prices on Walmart.com 45
Should Some Sites Be Liable For The Content They Host? 265
Lawmakers, Intelligence Officials Welcomed To This Year's Def Con Conference 31
Does Tech-Industry Job Growth Actually Lower Wages For Some Workers? 78
White House Proposal Would Have FCC and FTC Police Alleged Social Media Censorship 140
Trump Asks Social Media Companies To Develop Pre-Crime Algorithms 333
Critical US Election Systems Have Been Left Exposed Online 128
Even Fixing Wisconsin's Foxconn Deal Won't Fix It, Says State-Requested Report 168
Feds Told Tesla To Stop Making 'Misleading Statements' On Model 3 Safety 116
High-Security Locks For Government and Banks Hacked By Researcher 46
The Fed Is Getting Into the Real-Time Payments Business 121
Proposed Bill Would Make Monopolies Pay 'Serious' Fines 98
Voter Records For 80% of Chile's Population Left Exposed Online 44
Did WhatsApp Backdoor Rumor Come From 'Unanswered Questions ' and 'Leap of Faith' For Closed-Source Encryption Products? 105
EFF Warns Proposed Law Could Create 'Life-Altering' Copyright Lawsuits 117
NYT Publishes Anti-Google Rant, Doesn't Mention Author Is Facebook Board Member 109
Hawaii Extends Thirty Meter Telescope Permit Amid Protesters 154
FCC Finally Orders ISPs To Say Exactly Where They Offer Broadband 30
FTC Antitrust Probe of Facebook Scrutinizes Its Acquisitions 19
Cisco To Pay $8.6 Million Fine For Selling Hackable Surveillance Tech 37
FTC Says 'You Will Be Disappointed' if You Choose $125 For Equifax Payout 149
'The White House Blocked My Report on Climate Change and National Security' 294
New Bill Would Ban Autoplay Videos and Endless Scrolling 247
Capital One's Breach Was Inevitable, Because We Did Nothing After Equifax 165
Amazon's Ring Reportedly Partners With 200 Law Enforcement Agencies 73
Amazon Told Police It Has Partnered With 200 Law Enforcement Agencies 83
Privacy Group Challenges FTC's Small Facebook Settlement, Also Wants an Admission of Guilt 51

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