Government Stories for 2020

Global Digital-Tax Detente Ends, as US and France Exchange Blows 70
Will America's Next President Change Its Space Program? 134
Will America's Next President Break Up Facebook? 171
'Unforced Error' in Suspected Russian Data Breach May Have Led to Its Discovery 50
The ACLU Is Suing For More Information About the FBI's Phone-Hacking Lab 31
Russia Lawmakers Pass Bills That Could Block Social Media Sites 25
DHS Is Looking Into Backdoors In Smart TVs By China's TCL 85
France Bans Use of Drones To Police Protests In Paris 23
MIT Electrical Engineer Selected For US Senate 120
SEC Formally Sues Cryptocurrency Company Ripple 40
'Dozens of Email Accounts' Were Hacked At US Treasury 24
The COVID-19 Stimulus Bill Would Make Illegal Streaming a Felony 114
How Do US Government Agencies Verify Security Software from Private Contractors? 117
FAA and Boeing 'Inappropriately Coached' Pilots In 737 MAX Testing 83
Tech Giants Will Block Kazakhstan's Web Surveillance Efforts Again 47
Law Banning 'Rental' Fees For Customer-Owned Routers Takes Effect Sunday 39
Trump Considers Clemency For Silk Road 'Kingpin' Ross Ulbricht 169
UK Politicians Call For 'Making the Resale of Goods Purchased Using An Automated Bot an Illegal Activity' 126
Senator Tries To Block Frontier's FCC Funding, Citing ISP's Various Failures 34
Electoral College Certifies Biden's Victory, As Trump Still Refuses To Concede 550
Suspected Russian Hackers Breached Department of Homeland Security 55
Russia Breached Update Server Used by 300,000 Organizations, Including the NSA 115
US Treasury Department Breached by 'Hackers Backed By Foreign Government' 64
'Save Europe from Software Patents', Urges Nonprofit FFII 33
Facebook Says Hackers Backed By Vietnam's Government Are Linked To IT Firm 11
FDA Approves Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine For Emergency Use in America 222
Proposed US Law Could Slap Twitch Streamers With Felonies For Broadcasting Copyrighted Material 208
FDA Panel Recommends Approval of Pfizer's Covid Vaccine For Emergency Use 152
Germany, France, 11 Other EU Countries Team Up For Semiconductor Push 45
Kazakhstan's Government Begins Intercepting HTTPS Traffic In Its Capital 126
New Report: Havanna Syndrome Could Be Directed Microwave Energy 86
TikTok Misses US Deadline For Sale Without Punishment 36
Trump Signs Another Executive Order on Governmental AI Development 62
Trump To Congress: Repeal Section 230 Or I'll Veto Military Funding 511
UK Seeks Site For World's First Fusion Power Station 47
Massachusetts Lawmakers Vote To Pass a Statewide Police Ban On Facial Recognition 50
Ford Calls On Automakers To Support California Fuel Economy Deal 168
Pirate Bay Founder Warns US Govt Against Mafia-Esque Copyright Lobby 32
Report Claims America's CIA Also Controlled a Second Swiss Encryption Firm 100
How Lion Air's Boeing 737 Max Experienced a Near-Crash The Day Before 2018's Fatal Crash 73
What Happened After Silicon Valley Tried to Make Telecommuting Permanent 114
America's Top Court Strikes Down Covid-19 Restriction On Religious Groups 465
IRS Could Search Warrantless Location Database Over 10,000 Times 16
Amazon Partners With the US Government To Stop the Sale of Counterfeit Goods 72
US Congress Passes an IoT Security Bill 'That Doesn't Totally Suck' 80
The US Could Soon Ban the Selling of Carrier-Locked Phones 62
Biden Team Lacks Full US Cybersecurity Support in Transition Fracas 212
Massive, China-State-Funded Hack Hits Companies Around the World, Report Says 99
'Extremely Aggressive' Internet Censorship Spreads In the World's Democracies 239
FCC Takes Spectrum From Auto Industry In Plan To 'Supersize' Wi-Fi 49
FAA Chief '100% Confident' of 737 MAX Safety As Flights To Resume 170
Companies Could Face Hefty Fines Under New Canadian Privacy Law 35
Trump Fires Election Security Director Who Corrected Voter Fraud Disinformation 587
Trump Administration, In Late Push, Moves To Sell Oil Rights In Arctic Refuge 373
15 Asia-Pacific Countries Form World's Largest Trade Bloc, Exclude the US 295
Swiss Report Reveals New Details On CIA Spying Operation 36
Antitrust Investigations and Policy Towards China: How Biden's Victory Impacts Tech 61
President Biden Will Rejoin the World Health Organization on His First Day 281
What Biden's Victory Means For Net Neutrality - and for Ajit Pai 173
Former Astronaut Wins US Senate Seat Once Held By Republican John McCain 82
Uber and Lyft Will Push For More Laws Classifying Drivers as Independent Contractors 73
A Biden Victory Positions America For a 180-Degree Turn On Climate Change 251
Boeing's 737 Max: Carrying Passengers Again In December? 85
Electric Bike Motors Will Be Shut Down When Entering Residential Areas of Amsterdam 106
T-Mobile Will Stop Saying Its 5G Network Is Better Than It Actually Is 36
US Formally Withdraws From Paris Climate Agreement 250
Police Will Pilot a Program To Live-Stream Amazon Ring Cameras 84
A New Idea: Replacing Daylight Saving Time With 'Universal Solar Time' 234
In World First, Slovokia Plans To Test the Entire Country For COVID-19 80
Support Grows For Universal Basic Income Trials in UK 177
Zuckerberg Acknowledges 'Risk of Civil Unrest' After US Elections, Promises Newsfeed Updates 314
Why Do We Keep Setting Our Clocks Back an Hour? 290
Trump's TikTok Ban Temporarily Blocked by US Judge 85
SpaceX Will 'Make Its Own Laws On Mars' 293
Russian Hackers Targeted California, Indiana Democratic Parties In Repeat of 2016 Attacks 58
China's Leaders Vow Tech 'Self-Reliance,' Military Power and Economic Recovery 108
iOS 14's Upcoming Anti-Tracking Prompt Sparks Antitrust Complaint In France 114
NSA Ducks Questions About Backdoors In Tech Products 84
White House Science Office Says Trump Ended COVID-19 Pandemic as US Hits Record Cases 445
Russia Orders National Mask Mandate As COVID-19 Cases Spike 59
CBP Refuses To Tell Congress How It's Tracking Americans Without a Warrant 72
'How 30 Lines of Code Blew Up a 27-Ton Generator' 110
'Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet' 29
Is Right to Repair Gaining Momentum? 64
The Battle Over Chips is About to Get Uglier 74
Russians Who Pose Election Threat Have Hacked Nuclear Plants and Power Grid 66
Hackers Behind Life-Threatening Attack On Chemical Maker Are Sanctioned 77
T-Mobile Screwups Caused Nationwide Outage But FCC Isn't Punishing Carrier 38
Drivers Sue Uber Over Pressure To Support Prop 22 77
Google AI Tech Will Be Used For Virtual Border Wall, CBP Contract Shows 76
FCC Defends Helping Trump, Claims Authority Over Social Media Law 116
The Police Can Probably Break Into Your Phone 96
FCC To Delay $9 Billion Rural Broadband Push To Fix Data Flaws 49
Privacy Advocates Alarmed By Singapore's World-First Face-Scanning Plans 25
What If the Government Ran a Social Network? 190
Another California City Launches a Two-Year Guaranteed Income Program 136
Make Remote Work Permanent? No Way, Say Bay Area Leaders 169
US Antitrust Regulators Could Target Google's Chrome Browser For Breakup 45
Trump Scrambles To Loosen America's Biometric Data and Gig Worker Regulations 184
FCC Will Move To Regulate Social Media After Censorship Outcry 325
China Starts Digital Yuan Trial By Giving $30 To 50,000 People 55
Bill Gates: 'I Was Naive At Microsoft,' Didn't Realize Success Would Bring Antitrust Scrutiny 85
There's Another Huge Right To Repair Fight Brewing In Massachusetts 117
America's 'Cyber Command' Is Trying to Disrupt the World's Largest Botnet 37
What Happens When Researchers Give Thousands of Dollars to Homeless People? 270
Faith in Government Declines When Mobile Internet Arrives 61
Microsoft Is Now the 'Adult In the Room' Among Big Tech, Says Seattle Congresswoman 91
EU Parliament Votes For 60% Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cut By 2030 101
US Appeals Injunction Against TikTok Ban 25
France Passes New Law To Protect Child Influencers 48
US Explores Curbs On Ant Group, Tencent Payment Systems 66
Trump Administration Announces Overhaul of H-1B Visa Program 181
The IRS Is Being Investigated For Using Location Data Without a Warrant 57
SEC Sues John McAfee Over Promoting Cryptocurrency On Twitter 29
Facebook Leak Shows Its Preparations to Fight a Government-Ordered Breakup 50
Two Leaders of Videogame Piracy Group Arrested 45
Trump Goes To Hospital After Testing Positive For COVID-19 279
Trump Tests Positive For COVID-19 838
Controversial Data Firm Palantir Fetches Market Value of Nearly $22 Billion In Its Debut On the NYSE 28
Apple Removes Two RSS Feed Readers From China App Store To Please China's Censors 15
Denmark: We Can Slash CO2 By 70% In a Decade And Still Have Welfare 94
Police Charity Bought An iPhone Hacking Tool and Gave It To Cops 92
Report: U.S. Anti-Trust Regulators Will Accuse Google of Crushing Competition to Maintain Monopoly 60
Amazon's Data-Request Portal for Police is Visible on the Web 6
Singapore Becomes First Country To Use Facial Verification For a National ID Service 18
America's IRS Wants Cryptocurrency Exchanges Declared on Tax Forms 100
Thailand Launches Its First Legal Action Against Facebook and Twitter 19
Silicon Valley Tech Workers Angered By Proposal to Make Some Mandatory Telecommuting Permanent 230
Universal Basic Income Gains Support In South Korea After COVID-19 132
Senators Introduce Bipartisan 'Unplug Internet Kill Switch Act of 2020,' Preventing a President From Denying Access To the Internet 82
Boeing Whistle-Blower Says Proposed 737 Max Fixes Aren't Enough 102
Feds Issue Emergency Order For Agencies To Patch Critical Windows Flaw 61
Proposal Would Give EU Power To Boot Tech Giants Out of European Market 85
Trump Pushes To Reap Biometric Data From Immigrants, Americans 87
With New Security and Free Internet Issues, What Did the TikTok Deal Really Achieve? 116
US Judge Blocks Attempt to Ban WeChat 140
Is Momentum Growing for Universal Basic Incomes? 322
Last-Minute TikTok Deal Averts Shutdown 105
US Spy Plane Impersonates A Malaysian Aircraft 158
WeChat Users Won't Be Targeted By Trump's Order, US Says 14
Cambridge Staff 'Fobbed Off' At Meeting Over ARM Sale To Nvidia, Says Union 76
Smaller Internet Providers In Canada Just Got A Big Win In Court 27
Is Boeing's '737 Max' Safe Now? 178
Production Problems at Boeing Factory Prompt Regulators to Review Lapses 63
MIT Sleep Monitor Can Track People's Sleeping Positions Using Radio Signals 15
DJI Promises 'Local Data Mode' To Fend Off US Government's Mooted Ban 47
Former NSA Chief Keith Alexander Joins Amazon's Board of Directors 30
California Amends Freelancer Law, But Still Pursues Gig-Worker Companies and Food-Delivery Services 113
Trump Administration Issues Directive Aimed At Enhancing Cybersecurity In Space 42
Trump Ban On Chinese Drone Parts Risks Worsening Wildfires 127
US Will Not Pay Millions In Dues To WHO This Year 186
Former IT Director Gets Jail Time For Selling Government's Cisco Gear On eBay 66
Google Removes Android App That Was Used To Spy On Belarusian Protesters 26
The FBI Botches Its DNC Hack Warning In 2016 -- But Says It Won't Next Time 90
Russia May Force Apple To Reduce Its App Store Tax To 20% 87
Trump Administration Forces Facebook and Google To Drop Hong Kong Cable 56
Andrew Yang Takes Lead Role In California Data Privacy Campaign 26
For U.S. Space Force Ranks, William Shatner Endorses 'Starfleet Amendment' 207
Cory Doctorow's New Book Explains 'How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism' 76
Texas A&M Professor Accused of Secretly Collaborating With China Amid NASA Work 52
Tesla, Intel, and Others Urge America's FTC to Oppose Qualcomm Ruling 44
American Sleep Medicine Professionals Call For an End to Daylight Saving Time 130
Report: Massive US Spy Satellite May 'Hoover Up' Cellphone Calls 85
Japan's Longest-Serving PM, Shinzo Abe, Resigns For Health Reasons 22
'The Future of American Industry Depends On Open Source Tech' 45
DOJ Finally Starts Process of Investigating Nursing Home Deaths From COVID-19 232
Microsoft's TikTok Deal Reportedly Ballooned After Trump Intervened 44
Clearview AI CEO Says 'Over 2,400 Police Agencies' Are Using Its Facial Recognition Software 14
White House Announces Creation of AI and Quantum Research Institutes 31
After 48 Years, Democrats Endorse Nuclear Energy In Platform 385
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Stoked Washington's Fears About TikTok 97
New Zealand Can't Find Source of Its New Covid-19 Cases 199
America Begins Airport Tests of Technology To Detect Drones and 'Mitigate Potential Safety Risks Posed' 36
Police in Several US Cities Used Facial Recognition To Hunt Down and Arrest Protesters 254
Palantir, Tech's Next Big IPO, Lost $580 Million In 2019 52
Microsoft Plans Cloud Contract Push With Foreign Governments After $10 Million JEDI Win 29
Telegram Messaging App Proves Crucial To Belarus Protests 21
Germany Begins Universal Basic Income Trial With People Getting $1,400 a Month For 3 Years 380
UK Will Take a Crack At Regulating Future Self-Driving Car Systems 31
Microsoft, Energy Department To Develop Disaster-Response AI Tools 8
Ex-Apple Engineer Says U.S. Government May Have Built a Top-Secret Geiger Counter Out of an iPod 64
Google Warns Australians it Really Doesn't Want to Pay for News 114
Should the U.S. Pardon Edward Snowden? 191
San Diego's Police Are Using Video from 'Smart' Streetlights 100
Belarus Has Shut Down the Internet Amid a Controversial Election 120
EPA To Rescind Methane Regulations For Oil and Gas 118
Leaked Documents Reveal What TikTok Shares With Authorities In the US 27
Should the U.K. Government Form a Coalition to Buy ARM? 124
Some Cities are Combining Basic Incomes with Local Currenices 88
WSJ: Qualcomm Asks US Government to Let it Sell Chips to Huawei 38
Cringely Predicts the U.S. Can't Stop WeChat 134
New Zealand Marks 100 Days of No Covid-19 Community Spread 60
China Is Now Blocking All Encrypted HTTPS Traffic That Uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI 103
Bill Gates Weighs In on US Pandemic Response, Encryption, and Grilling Tech Executives 86
Is the US about to Split the Internet? 165
Trump Blew Up More Than Just TikTok and WeChat 145
Government's PACER Fees Are Too High, Federal Circuit Says 17
TikTok Ban: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions With ByteDance Beginning September 20 217
Lawmakers Ask California DMV How It Makes $50 Million a Year Selling Drivers' Data 67
FCC Lowers Some Prison Phone Rates After Blaming States For High Prices 39
Facebook Removes Trump Post For the First Time 291
US Senate Votes To Ban TikTok App On Government Devices 19
US Reaches $1 Billion Deal For Doses of Potential Johnson & Johnson Vaccine 126
New York Unveils Landmark Antitrust Bill That Makes It Easier To Sue Tech Giants 34
Twitter Faces FTC Probe, Likely Fine Over Use of Phone Numbers For Ads 23
Prosecutors Are Investigating Amazon's Treatment of Third-Party Sellers 16
Trump Fires TVA Chair, Cites Hiring of Foreign Workers 267
Chinese Games Will Force Players To Use Their Real Names 60
Will China's AI Surveillance State Go Global? 109
Amazon Says Police Demands For Customer Data Have Gone Up 11
Should the US Military Be Recruiting On Twitch? 160
GOP Congressman Turns Antitrust Hearing Into Personal Tech Support Session 136
Nancy Pelosi Mandates Masks On House Floor 247
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos 'Can't Guarantee' Policy Against Using Seller Specific Data Hasn't Been Violated 19
Trump's Plan To Regulate Social Media 292
Trump Blasts 'Trending' Section On Twitter: 'Really Ridiculous, Illegal, and, of Course, Very Unfair!' 354
Twenty Years On, Japan Government's Digital Ambitions Still Stuck In Piles of Paper 49
ICE Bars New Foreign Students From US If Classes Are Fully Online 150
Trump Campaign Angry That Cell Carriers Blocked Company Texts To Voters 103
Appeals Court Blocks Trump Appointee's Takeover of Web Nonprofit 20
New York Bans Use of Facial Recognition In Schools Statewide 29
Ajit Pai Urges States To Cap Prison Phone Rates After He Helped Kill FCC Caps 106
Full Text of US State Department Cables Finally Released, Showing Safety In Chinese Lab 220
America's Border Patrol 'Can Track Everyone's Car' By Buying License Plate-Reader Data 142
The FBI Secretly Used Travel Company 'Sabre' As A Global Surveillance Tool 74
Stockton Basic Income Program Extended. Is Support For the Idea Growing? 110
South Korea Commits $61 Billion For 'Net-Zero Society' By 2025 57
White House Reportedly Orders Hospitals To Bypass CDC During COVID-19 Data Collection 189
TikTok Pulls Out of Hong Kong 41
DuckDuckGo Restored in India, Responds to Favicon Concerns 13
US Secret Service Creates New Cyber Fraud Task Force 28
Police Surveilled Protests With Help From Twitter-Affiliated Startup Dataminr 68
Amazon Will Pay $135,000 To Settle Alleged US Sanction Violations 37
Police Are Buying Access To Hacked Website Data 41
Trump Administration Begins Formal Withdrawal From WHO 313
Foreign Students Must Leave the US If Their Universities Transition To Online-Only Learning 169
US Senate Amends EARN IT Act -- To Let States Restrict Encryption 89
Americans Lag Behind Other Countries -- and Pay More for Their Cellphone Service 144
Inside the Plot To Kill the Open Technology Fund 80
US Secures World Stock of Key COVID-19 Drug Remdesivir 391
National Mask Mandate Could Save 5 Percent of GDP, Economists Say 481
With DOJ Charges, Former VC Mike Rothenberg Could Now Be Facing Serious Jail Time 29
America Pushes Europe to Reject Chinese Baggage Screening Tech 96
How Did the World Miss Covid-19's Silent Spread? 265
Journalist's Phone Hacked: All He Had To Do Was Visit a Website. Any Website. 123
Apple 'Suddenly Catches TikTok Secretly Spying On Millions Of iPhone Users', Claims Forbes 61
Charter Seeks FCC Permission to Impose Data Caps and Charge Fees to Video Services 102
Sweden Tries Out a New Status: Pariah State 382
California City Bans Predictive Policing In US First 140
House Democrats Pass DC Statehood Bill 249

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