Government Stories for 2009

Italy May Censor Torrent Sites 194
Following In Bing's Footsteps, Yahoo! and Flickr Censor Porn In India 167
NY Times, LA Times Want Amazon To Collect More State Taxes 507
TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight 888
Fraudulent Anti-Terrorist Software Led US To Ground Planes 147
Florida Congressman Wants Blogging Critic Fined, Jailed 549
Cyber-Security Czar To Be Named 139
The Chinese Route To a Web Free of Porn 420
Legislator Wants Cancer Warnings For Cell Phones 314
Nvidia Waiting In the Wings In FTC-Intel Dispute 143
Mandatory Use of Open Standards In Hungary 163
Obama Backs New Launcher and Bigger NASA Budget 391
After Berlusconi Attack, Italy Considers Web Censorship 160
The Social Difficulty of Saving Earth From an Asteroid 391
How Europe's Mandated Browser Ballot Screen Works 169
UK Wants To Phase Out Checks By 2018 796
UK Government Seeks New Web Censorship Powers 187
White House Holding Piracy Summit 268
Aussie Gov't To Introduce Bill That Would Require ISP-Level Censorship 200
The Trial of Terry Childs Begins 502
Cuba Jails US Worker Handing Out Laptops, Cellphones 400
"Loud Commercial" Legislation Proposed In US Congress 636
Supreme Court Takes Texting Privacy Case 184
Cybersecurity Czar Job Is Useless, Says Spafford 104
Broadband Rights & the Killer App of 1900 565
US and Russia Open Talks On Limits To Cyberwar 80
House Outlaws Obama's NASA Intervention 209
White House Plans Open Access For Research 74
Three Lawmakers Ask For Enforcement Against Leak Sites 316
USPTO Asking For Ideas To Enhance Patent Quality 42
FTC Says Virtual Worlds Bad For Minors 355
FTC, Google Go After Scammers 64
Microsoft To Get Malware Bailout In Germany 226
Israeli Knesset Approves Biometric Database Law 303
Sharp Rise In Jailing of Online Journalists; Iran May Just Kill Them 233
FCC May Pry Open the Cable Set-Top Box 222
Iranian Crackdown Goes Global 313
FCC Inquires About Controversial Verizon Fees 178
New Aliens Vs. Predator Game Doesn't Make It Past AU Ratings Board 277
FCC Wants Proposals To Manage White Space Database 46
SarBox Lawsuit Could Rewrite IT Compliance Rules 124
India Hanging Up On 25 Million Cell Phones 103
German President Refuses To Sign Censorship Law 272
NASA Campaigns For Safer Launch Requirements 193
Government Delays New Ban On Internet Gambling 143
Two Senators Call For ACTA Transparency 214
Google Analytics May Be Illegal In Germany 241
New Virginia IT Systems Lack Network Backup 211
Obama Kicks Off Massive Science Education Effort 801
Brazilian Breaks Secrecy of Brazil's E-Voting Machines With Van Eck Phreaking 157
Pittsburgh To Tax Students 344
Federal Judge Says Corps of Engineers Liable For Katrina Damage 486
Microsoft Denies It Built Backdoor Into Windows 7 450
New York State Testing Emergency Alerts Over Gaming Networks 212
Secret UK Plan To Appoint "Pirate Finder General" 332
US Government Using PS3s To Break Encryption 570
Accountability of the Scientific Stimulus Funding 242
AU Senator Calls Scientology a "Criminal Organization" 511
Founder of Tibet's "Butter-Lamp" Site Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison 3
Senate To Air Findings In Web "Mystery Charge" Probe 120
Hackers Fail To Crack Brazilian Voting Machines 143
Caffeinated Alcoholic Drinks May Be Illegal 398
TSA Changes Its Rules, ACLU Lawsuit Dropped 285
BlueHippo Scam Collected $15M, Only Shipped One PC 216
Nicaragua Creates Innovative Agricultural Information System With Open Source 78
City Laws Only Available Via $200 License 411
MPAA Shuts Down Town's Municipal WiFi Over 1 Download 323
How To DDoS a Federal Wiretap 112
China Lauds iPhone App That Spreads Gov't Views 158
Justice Dept. Asked For Broad Swath of IndyMedia's Visitor Records 244
Regulator Blocks BBC DRM Plans 177
In the UK, Big Brother Recedes and Advances 176
China Bans Physical Punishment For Net Addicts 139
National Data Breach Law Advances 51
Man Denied Right To Vote Because He Won't Use Computer 5
EU Telecom Deal Finished — No Three Strikes 109
Congress May Require ISPs To Block Certain Fraud Sites 180
Anti-Counterfeiting Deal Aims For Global DMCA 380
NASA Trying To Reinvent Their Approach 123
An Inbox Is Not a Glove Compartment 316
Attorney General Says Wiretap Lawsuit Must Be Thrown Out 493
Nothing To Fear But Fearlessness Itself? 660
1,600 Names Suggested Daily For FBI's Watch List 168
Journalists Looking For Government Money 323
Adobe Pushing For Flash and PDF In Open Government Initiative 172
Metadata In Arizona Public Records Can't Be Withheld 103
FCC Mulling More Control For Electronic Media 176
Sequoia To Publish Source Code For Voting Machines 102
Internet Probably Couldn't Handle a Flu Pandemic 341
New UK Wireless Network Tax May Hamper Internet Rollout 66
White House Website Switches To Open Source 219
Mandatory H1N1 Vaccine For NY Health Workers Suspended 292
Open Source Voting Software Concept Released 121
FCC Begins Crafting Net Neutrality Regulations 297
Dutch Gov't Has No Idea How To Delete Tapped Calls 186
Nigerian "Scam Police" Shut Down 800 Web Sites 200
CIA Invests In Firm That Datamines Social Networks 190
Car Glass Rules Could Impair Cell, GPS and Radio Signals In CA 762
The Economics of Federal Cloud Computing Analyzed 85
California Moving Forward With Big-Screen TV Power Restrictions 339
Open Source Effort To Codify America's "Operating System" Online 98
Secret ACTA Treaty May Sport "Internet Enforcement" Procedures After All 239
FCC Considers Opening Up US Broadband Access 253
China Strangles Tor Ahead of National Day 297
What Kind of Cloud Computing Project Costs $32M? 158
FBI Bringing Biometric Photo Scanning To North Carolina, Via DMV 221
Blogger Loses Unemployment Check Because of Ads 554
FCC Chairman Warns of Wireless Spectrum Gap 300
Real-LIfe Distributed-Snooping Web Game To Launch In Britain 419
Details On Worldwide Surveillance and Filtering 125
Microsoft, EU Reach Antitrust Accord 219
Ministry of Defense's "How To Stop Leaks" Document Is Leaked 141
DHS Wants To Hire 1,000 Cybersecurity Experts 222
Canadian Minister Lies On Net Surveillance Claims 155
Legal Code In a Version Control System? 334
House Committee Passes "Informed P2P User Act" 235
Executive Order Bars Federal Workers From Texting and Driving 236
Relaunched Recovery.gov Fails Accessibility Standards 197
New Bill Proposes Open Source Requirement for Publicly Funded Books 317
US Relaxes Control Over ICANN 230
Federal Summit Eyes Crackdown On Texting While Driving 408
Scientists Decry "Horrifying" UK Border Test Plan 515
Obama Makes a Push To Add Time To the School Year 1073
Porn Surfing Rampant At US Science Foundation 504
For New Zealanders, No More Phones As Sat-Nav Devices 364
The Fresca Rebellion 776
G20 Protesters Blasted By "Sound Cannon" 630
$529M Gov't Loan To Develop $89,000 Hybrid Sports Car 293
NASA's Space Plans Take Another Hit 12
CA City Mulls Evading the Law On Red-Light Cameras 366
Senate To Reconsider Wiretap Immunity 222
Court To Scammer, "Give Up Your House Or Go To Jail" 152
Soviets Built a Doomsday Machine; It's Still Alive 638
US Wants UK Hacker To Pay To Fix Holes He Exposed 403
French Deputies Want Labels On Photo-Altered Models 512
$2,000 Bribe Bought Password To DC P.O. System 187
FCC Backs Net Neutrality, Chairman's Full Speech Posted 270
Google, Apple Joust Over Rejected Voice App 228
Using Encryption Garners Exemption For Data Breach Notification 101
California Publishes Television Efficiency Standards For 2011 265
Mozilla Firefox Not In Violation of US Export Rules 127
FCC To Propose Net Neutrality Rules 110
DHS Ponders "Improving" Terrorism Alert System 320
US Government Sets Up Online "App Store" 138
Professor Posts "Illegal Copy" of Guide To Oregon Public Record Laws 318
Feds Ask IT Execs To Throw Away Cellphones After Visiting China 382
France Passes Harsh Three-Strikes Legislation, Again 207
AU Goverment To Break Up Telstra; Filtering News 144
"Right To Repair" Bill Advances In Massachusetts 478
Congress Mulls Research Into a Vehicle Mileage Tax 792
Is City-Wide Wi-Fi a Dead Idea? 259
Boston City Government Discovers Email Retention 184
A History of Wiretapping 128
Terrorists Convicted With Help of NSA E-mail Intercepts 153
China Considering Cuts In Rare-Earth Metal Exports 456
What the DHS Knows About You 402
HR 3200 Considered As Software 296
Google Apps Not the DC Success Many Believe? 139
Cell Phone Cost Calculator Killed In Canada 214
ES&S To Buy Diebold, Blackbox Voting To Sue 175
Canadian Hate-Speech Law Violates Charter of Rights 651
Serious Design Failure At USAspending.gov? 207
UK Plans To Link Criminal Records To ID Cards 359
Judge Won't Lower $5M Bail For Jailed SF IT Admin 429
Alan Turing Apology Campaign Grows 653
Musician Lobby Terms Balanced Copyright "Disgusting" 319
James Murdoch Criticizes BBC For Providing "Free News" 703
Court of Appeals Rejects FCC's Cable Subscriber Cap 87
Emergency Government Control of the Internet? 853
Homeland Security Changes Laptop Search Policy 273
FTC Rules Outlawing Robocalls Go Into Effect Next Week 277
Database Records and "In Plain Sight" Searches 154
China Admits Use of Death-Row Organs 309
ACLU Sues For Records On Border Laptop Searches 337
Time Denies Issuing DMCA Over Obama Joker Image 324
US Fed Gov. Says All Music Downloads Are Theft 451
Proposed UK File-Sharing Laws May Be Illegal, ISPs Upset 198
Global Warming To Be Put On Trial? 1100
Finalists Chosen In Apps For America 2 Contest 64
FCC Declares Intention To Enforce Net Neutrality 343
British Video Recordings Act 1984 Invalid 340
Pirate Bay Archive Goes Online 94
Appeals Court Overturns 2007 Unix Copyright Decision 330
One Crime Solved Per 1,000 London CCTV Cameras 404
Anti-Spam Lawyer Loses Appeal, and His Possessions 237
Goldman Sachs Code Theft Not Quite So Cut and Dried 306
Swedish Authorities Attempt Pirate Bay Shutdown 348
Model Drops Lawsuit After Outing Anonymous Blogger 476
"Smart" Parking Meters Considered Dumb 863
Real-Time Keyloggers 205
Apple, Google, AT&T Respond To the FCC Over Google Voice 326
3 of 4 Charges Against Terry Childs Dropped 189
Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession 640
RIAA Loses Case Against Launch Media 86
Switzerland's Data Protection Watchdog Wants Street View Disabled 257
Sweden Launches Criminal Probe of Pirate Bay Sale 48
Federal Court Grants Microsoft Expedited Appeal 88
New York MTA Asserts Copyright Over Schedule 395
Writing Style Fingerprint Tool Easily Fooled 96
Open Source Tech Used To Monitor Afghan Election 51
SSN Overlap With Micronesia Causes Trouble For Woman 494
'Awful' Internet Rules Released 106
Flickr Yanks Image of Obama As Joker 869
Judge Rules To Reveal Anonymous Blogger's Identity Over Insults 271
Japanese Political Candidates Go Dark Online 91
Microsoft Files "Emergency Motion" To Ship Word 221
Three Indicted In Huge Identity/Data Breach 101
Microsoft Trial Misconduct Cost $40 Million 231
BetOnSports Founder Pleads Guilty To Racketeering 223
Arizona Judge Tells Sheriff "Reveal Password Or Face Contempt" 624
DoJ Defends $1.92 Million RIAA Verdict 386
Major Carriers Shun Broadband Stimulus 190
Danish FreeBSD Dev. Sues Lenovo Over "Microsoft Tax" 318
Firefox Plugin Liberates Paywalled Court Records 145
US Tests System To Evade Foreign Web Censorship 219
$18M Contract For Transparency Website Released — But Blacked Out 384
Why the UK Needs the Pirate Party 363
Database Error Costs Social Security Victims $500M 299
Illinois Bans Social Network Use By Sex Offenders 587
Man Jailed After Using LimeWire For ID Theft 241
Judge Rules Against RealDVD 407
US Court Tells Microsoft To Stop Selling Word 403
In UK, Two Convicted of Refusing To Decrypt Data 554
Supreme Court Review of Bilski Heats Up 121
Voting Machine Attacks Proven To Be Practical 225
Schneier On Self-Enforcing Protocols 207
AT&T Makes Its Terms of Service Even Worse, To Discourage Lawsuits 412
FTC May Cast A Closer Eye On How Businesses Share Personal Data 72
Iran Getting Better At Filtering Web Traffic 68
The Perseverance of a Trademark Troll 63
Malaysian Government Wants Internet Filtering 113
Twitter, Facebook DDoS Attack Targeted One User 205
UK National ID Card Cloned In 12 Minutes 454
Medical Papers By Ghostwriters Pushed Hormone Therapy 289
Examining Software Liability In the Open Source Community 241
Swiss Open Source Decision Going Microsoft's Way 105
Chapter 11 Trustee Appointed For SCO 89
Twitter Faces Patent Infringement Lawsuit 236
Navigating a Geek Marriage? 1146
FBI Nabs Chicago Transit Authority Radio Hacker 177
Student Sues University Because She's Unemployable 1251
Network Neutrality Back In Congress For 3rd Time 248
First Ever Criminal Arrest For Domain Name Theft 294
Thinktank Aims To Crowdsource Government Earmark Analysis 100
Even More Restriction For German Internet 330
Microsoft Drops Windows 7 E Editions 423
Defense Department Eyes Hacker Con For New Recruits 154
UK Plans To Monitor 20,000 Families' Homes Via CCTV 693
Tenenbaum Lawyers Now Passing the Hat 388
FCC Probing Apple, AT&T Rejection of Google Voice 204

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