United States Stories for 2007

TSA Limits Lithium Batteries on Airplanes 595
WTO Awards Caribbean Country Right to Ignore US Copyright 460
FBI to Put Criminals Up in Lights 315
Government Makes NIH Research Open Access 162
USPTO Reaffirms 1-Click Claims 'Old And Obvious' 80
Wisconsin Mulls an Earmarked Video Game Tax 63
US To Extinguish (Most) Incandescent Bulb Sales By 2012 1106
Circuit City Rewards Execs As Stock Tanks 354
FBI Prepares Vast Database of Biometrics 152
FCC Ignores Public, Relaxes Media Ownership 244
Colorado Decertifies E-voting Machines 169
Dodd's Filibuster Threat Stalls Wiretap Bill 483
Telecom Immunity Showdown in the Senate Today 221
DoubleClick Goes MIA At FTC Chief's Old Law Firm 39
More Details Emerge On Domestic Spying Programs 282
DOJ Doesn't Like the Idea of A Copyright Czar 215
US Government Caught Manipulating Wikipedia 471
Copy That Floppy, Lose Your Computer 766
Congress Creates Copyright Cops 533
Most In US Have False Sense of Online Security 161
How To Beat Congress's Ban Of Humans On Mars 447
The $10 Billion Poker Game Begins 169
NJ Blogger Fights for Anonymous Free Speech 406
FCC May Move to Cap Cable Company Size 73
All US Border Crossings Now Require A 'Terrorist Risk Profile' 710
Texas Science Director Forced To Resign Over ID Statements 984
Government-Sponsored Cyberattacks on the Rise 96
FBI's Bot Roast II Sees Great Success 129
U.S. House Says the Internet is Terrorist Threat 457
FCC Delays Vote On Cable TV Regulation 111
Flawed Online Dating Bill Being Pushed in New Jersey 192
Feds Have Access To Cellphone Tracking On Request 140
Anatomy of the VA's IT Meltdown 137
US Senators Take On The ESRB Over Manhunt 2 386
Mixed News on Wiretapping from 9th Circuit US Court 93
In The US, Email Is Only For Old People 383
Hushmail Passing PGP Keys to the US Government 303
The Last DC Power Grid Shut Down in NYC 533
Anti-P2P College Bill Moving Through House 334
US Control of Internet Remains an Issue 303
Vuze Petitions FCC To Restrict Traffic Throttling 159
New NSA-Approved Encryption Standard May Contain Backdoor 322
Wikileaks Releases Sensitive Guantanamo Manual 643
All Fifty States May Face Voting Machine Lawsuit 436
MA Proposes Two Year Jail Term for Online Gambling 248
White House Ordered to Preserve All Email 259
FCC Moves To Regulate Cable TV Competition 104
US Official Urges Americans To Reconsider Privacy 515
Bill Would Tie Financial Aid To Anti-Piracy Plans 425
FCC Planning Rules to Open Cable Market 70
Ex AT&T Tech Says NSA Monitors All Web Traffic 566
NY Rejects E-Voting, DOJ Trying to Force the Issue 228
FBI May Have Datamined Grocery Stores With Help From Credit Companies 442
EFF Documentation Victory in Telco Spying Case 89
FTC Announces Crackdown on Do Not Call Violators 162
Bill to Require Open Access to Scientific Papers 213
House Narrowly Avoids Having to Debate Impeachment of Cheney 1033
Congressional Commitee Rips Yahoo Execs 293
REAL ID In Its Death Throes, Says ACLU 315
US Wants Courts to OK Warrantless Email Snooping 476
Emailed Threats Less Crazy Than Snail Mail 113
Database Finds Fugitive After 35 Years 459
FCC Complaint Filed Over Comcast P2P Blocking 178
FTC Seeks Anti-Spyware Authority 63
US Voting Machines Standards Open To Public 115
New Robots Hunt Pirates by Sea 207
FBI Accused of Abusing Criminal Database 433
Senators Call For Hearing On Carrier Content Blocking 152
FEMA Sorry for Faking News Briefing 403
eBay's Lobbying Efforts May Include the CIA 38
Internet Connection Tax Held Off for A Few More Years 100
Terror Watch List Swells to More Than 755,000 512
FBI Coerced Confession Deemed "Classified" 456
FCC Looks To Offer Consumers More Wireless Choice 65
Senator Slaps Down FISA Telecom Immunity 206
Seven States Extend Microsoft Antitrust Judgment 200
White House Wins On Spying, Telecom Immunity 658
Bill Introduced to Congress Would Allow ID Theft Restitution 166
TSA to Contractors - Encrypt Your Laptops 132
Yahoo! Accused of Lying to Congress about Chinese Journalist 122
US House Votes To Renew Internet Tax Ban 123
Phone Companies Refuse to Give Congress Data on Spy Program 279
Web Accessibility Gets a Boost In California Court 283
Florida Literally Scraps Touch-Screen Voting 177
Airlines Have to Ask Permission to Fly 72 Hours Early 596
US Faces $100 Billion Fine For Web Gambling Ban 522
Amended Internet Tax Ban Will Not Include VoIP 139
Al Gore Shares Nobel Peace Prize with UN Panel 937
How the U.S. Became Switchboard to the World 256
Qwest Punished by NSA for Non-Cooperation 170
Googlestalking For Covert NSA Research Funding 150
FCC Declines To Probe Disclosure of Phone Records 97
DHS Injects Itself With DDoS 136
The 700MHz Question 148
Why Is US Grad School Mainly Non-US Students? 1131
1-Click Rejection Rejected 201
Cyber Crime A Distant #3 Priority for FBI 154
Parts of the Patriot Act Ruled Unconstitutional 414
First New Nuclear Plant in US in 30 years 838
Justice Department's Bio-terror Mistake 477
The Soldier of the Future 289
Unisys Investigated For Covering Up Cyber-Attacks 114
FBI Boosts Servers For Faster Criminal Searches 90
Will China Beat the United States Back to the Moon? 482
Telecom Companies Seek Retroactive Immunity 177
NSA Tasked With 'Policing' Government Networks 93
MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport 1547
Do Not Call Listings to Expire in 2008 247
Suit Seeks 'A La Carte' TV Channel Choices 350
US Senate Fails To Reinstate Habeas Corpus 790
Examining Presidential Candidates' Tech Agendas 274
US Register of Copyrights Says DMCA Is 'Working Fine' 224
GPS Transitions to New Control System 170
DOJ To Open Price-Fixing Query Into NAND Memory Market 19
Eavesdropping Helpful Against Terrorist Plot [UPDATED] 486
Help Find Steve Fossett 439
FAA Gets a Big-Screen Touch Table 130
Justice Department Opposes Net Neutrality 292
DHS Ends Data-Mining Program 75
Judge Strikes Down Part of Patriot Act 673
Air Force Mistakenly Transports Live Nukes Across America 898
FEC Will Not Regulate Political Blogging 171
Green Cars You Can't Buy 528
Chinese Military Hacked Into Pentagon 405
US May Invoke "State Secrets" To Stop Banking Suit 211
DoJ Finds Microsoft Antitrust Compliance 'On Track' 110
DOJ Still Looks To Have Suit Against Verizon Tossed 79
Financial Services Firms Simulate Flu Pandemic 150
The US Rural Broadband Crisis 586
Torrentspy Disables Searching For US IPs 277
U.S. Attorney General Resigns 845
FCC Head Supports Ala Carte Cable 295
Pirate Banned From Using Linux 698
Highway Safety Agency Silences Engineers 284
Antigua May Be Allowed To Violate US Copyrights 482
Another US Tech Trade Deficit 498
NID Admits ATT/Verizon Help With Wiretaps 299
Secrecy of Voting Machines Ballots At Risk 256
Free Tuition for Math, Science, and Engineering? 766
Most Laws Attempting Limits of Violent Videogames Fail 365
US Shuts Down Controversial Anti-Terror Database 238
FCC Puts 4.6 Billion Minimum Bid on Spectrum Auction 165
TSA's "Behavior Detection Officers" 281
Putting Anti-Evolution Candidates On the Spot 1583
Failing Our Geniuses 815
Behind the USPTO's Working With Peer-To-Patent 39
DHS To Share Spy Satellite Data Over the US 161
Microsoft Questions FCC's 'White Spaces' Decision 142
Security Threat In the New Wiretapping Law 167
US Spy Agencies See Bloggers as Journalists 77
DHS Plans Changes in Air Passenger Screening 154
FCC Rejects Cheap/Fast Internet Device 194
Federal Journalist Shield Law Advances 79
Vote Swapping Ruled Legal 496
Internet Radio's 'Second Chance' Bogging Down in House 105
IRS Freely Gives Out Employee User Name/Password Info 146
House Approves Warrantless Wiretapping Extension 342
Mod Chip Raids In Perspective 186
Diebold Voting Machines Vulnerable to Virus Attack 122
Decision on Virtual Taxation Coming Soon 52
FCC Commish - US Playing 'Russian Roulette' with Broadband 290
Bill Would Criminalize Attempted IP Infringement 211
Web Contracts Can't Be Changed Without Notice 169
US Paperless Voting Bill Advances 153
FDA Sees Nanotech Challenges In Every Product Category 21
Intern Loses 800,000 Social Security Numbers 492
Homeland Security Funds LED Light That Blinds, Disorients 455
Senators Call for Universal Internet Filtering 628
Federal Science Gets More Politicized 567
Truck-Mounted Laser Guns 370
Punchscan Wins Open Source Voting Competition 98
Patent Reform Bill Approved by House Committee 95
U.S. Science and Engineering Research Flattens 273
FBI Used Spyware for Online Search 79
Executive Order Overturns US Fifth Amendment 853
First Robotic Drone Squadron Deployed 772
"Tubes" Senator Being Investigated For Corruption 613
FBI Data Mining For More Than Just Terrorists 130
FBI Employees Face Criminal Probe Over Patriot Act 217
A Flawed US Election Reform Bill 188
Bogus Company Obtains Nuclear License 247
US Military Leaks its Secrets Online 198
FCC Head Wants New Wireless Devices Unlocked 221
Court Upholds Warrantless Internet Snooping 173
NH Signs Bill That Rejects Federal Real ID 231
DOJ Accidentally Gives Lawyer Wiretap Transcript 319
Court Orders Dismissal of US Wiretapping Lawsuit 362
Captain America Buried in Arlington National Cemetary 314
Bush Commutes Libby's Sentence 1574
FTC Says 'Slow Down' on Net Neutrality 106
Permit May Be Required For Public Photography in NYC 301
Military Running a Parallel Earth Simulator 470
National ID May Have Killed Immigration Bill 481
Ban On Price Floors Abandoned, Internet Prices May Rise 544
The United States Space Arsenal 297
CIA Declassifies the "Family Jewels" 356
NY Legislature Rejects "Microsoft Amendment" 223
US Expands Airport Biometric Data Collection 231
Day of Silence On the Internet 276
American Class Divisions Through Facebook and MySpace 373
FBI Seeks To Restrict University Student Freedoms 593
Underfunded NSA Suffers Brownouts 198
US Prepares for Eventual Cyberwar 223
C.I.A. to Let "Skeletons" Out of its Closet 235
Subpoenas Issued Over NSA Warrantless Wiretapping 260
Lawyer Asks RIAA To Investigate Bush Twins 529
Crackers Cause Pentagon to Put Computers Offline 260
DARPA to Raise Robot LANdroid Army 127
800 Break-ins at Dept. of Homeland Security 276
EU Privacy Directive — Coming To the US? 180
White House E-mail Scandal Widens 839
Microsoft Moves To Change NY State Election Law 222
Maine Passes a Net Neutrality Resolution 101
Say Nothing About the Failing Satellite 193
US Can't Meet The "Grand Challenges" of Physics 444
Congress Considers Forcing Travel Registration 321
Net Neutrality Comment Period Ends Friday 111
US Falls to 24th Place For Broadband Penetration 273
FBI Finds It Overstepped Bounds in Collecting Data 107
House To Vote On Paper Trail and OSS Voting Bill 258
More States Rebel Against Real ID Act 295
Microsoft May Be Investigated By Attorneys General 260
U.S. K-12 Schools Must Comply With e-Discovery Rule 166
Classified US Intel Budget Revealed Via Powerpoint 364
Justice Dept. Defends Microsoft Against Google 329
Legal Online Gambling May Return to US 231
A Field Trip To the Creation Museum 1854
USPTO Increases Scope Of Amazon's 1-Click Patent 98
White House Derails Attempts to End Illegal Wiretapping 647
Navy Now Mandated To Consider FOSS As an Option 205
FCC Indecency Ruling Struck Down 548
Putin Threatens US Missile Bases In Europe 997
The Private Outsourcing of US Intelligence Services 256
FTC Investigating Google-DoubleClick Deal 81
Wi-Fi Hack Aids Boarding Parties 69
Best Presidential Candidate for Nerds? 1140
Govt. Report Slams FBI's Internal Network Security 70
HP Skates Away From SEC Charges 80
Senator Warns of Email Tax This Fall 552
Congress Debating "No-Work" Database 438
US Gasoline Prices Spur Telework 512
Experts Now Say JFK Bullet Analysis Was Wrong 550
US Senators Question Indian Firms Over H-1Bs 415
Congress May Outlaw 'Attempted Piracy' 768
Justice Department Promises Stronger Copyright Punishments 322
Hybrid Cars to Get New Mileage Ratings 781
US Military Launches YouTube Channel 348
Monday is Wiretap the Internet Day 264
State Bans Texting While Driving 329
For Democrats, Florida Primary May Not Count 363

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