Government Stories for 2012

FAA Device Rules Illustrate the Folly of a Regulated Internet 449
US Firms Race Fiscal Cliff To Install Wind Turbines 98
New Documents Detail FBI, Bank Crack Down On Occupy Wall Street 584
FCC Smooths the Path For Airlines' In-Flight Internet 93
Facebook Paid 0.3% Taxes On $1.34 Billion Profits 592
Senate Renews Warrantless Eavesdropping Act 218
China Tightens Internet Restrictions 83
New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map 1232
NSA Targeting Domestic Computer Systems 105
Israeli Bill Would Allow Secret Blacklists For Websites 132
USAF Taps ESPN To Compile Drone "Highlight" Video 114
Who Should Manage the Nuclear Weapons Complex, Civilians Or Military? 183
Net Neutrality Bill Aimed At ISP Data Caps Introduced In US Senate 151
Taking Sense Away: Confessions of a Former TSA Screener 354
New York Culls Sex Offenders From the Online Gaming Ranks 511
UK Government Changes Tack and Demands Default Porn Block 163
Obama Releases National Strategy For Information Sharing 83
FTC Strengthens Children's Privacy Protections Online 45
School Shooting Prompts Legislation To Study Violent Video Games 1168
TSA (Finally) Studying Health Effects of Body Scanners 225
Zoe Lofgren Wants To Slow Down Domain Seizures By ICE & DOJ 46
New Call For Turing Pardon 231
UK Students Protest Biometric Scanner Move 196
Marijuana Prosecution Not a High Priority, Says Obama 449
NCTC Gets Vast Powers To Spy On U.S. Citizens 332
Ban On Loud TV Commercials Takes Effect Today 383
Julian Assange Runs For Office In Australia 192
FCC Moving To Launch Dynamic Spectrum Sharing 30
Atheist Blogger Sentenced To 3 Years in Prison For Insulting Islam 412
UT Professor Resigns Over Fracking Conflict of Interest 190
Text Message Spammer Wants FCC To Declare Spam Filters Illegal 338
US Nuclear Industry Plans "Rescue Wagon" To Avert Meltdowns 184
Russia and China Withdraw Bid For Internet Control 115
Black Boxes In Cars Raise Privacy Concerns 297
Some UK Councils Barred From Using Gov't Vehicle Database 84
SEC Investigates Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Over Facebook Posting 190
US Security Classifications Needs Re-Thinking, Says Board 76
Dotcom Drags NZ Spook Agency Into Court 165
Report Warns That Censorship Will Not Stop Terrorism 101
Researchers: PATRIOT Act Can 'Obtain' Data In Europe 133
Cops To Congress: We Need Logs of Americans' Text Messages 342
Senators Vow To Renew Bid For State Taxes On Remote Internet Sales 268
Internet Freedom Won't Be Controlled, Says UN Telcom Chief 158
Khan Academy: the Future of Taxpayer Reeducation? 386
How Some Chinese Users Bypass The Great Firewall 58
DOE Wants 5X Improvement In Batteries In 5 Years 305
Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? 943
Ask Slashdot: What Web Platform For a Small Municipality? 161
Syria Drops Off the Internet Grid 156
Lamar Smith, Future Chairman For the House Committee On Science, Space, and Technology 292
US Congressman Wants To Ban New Internet Laws 205
Amazon and Google Barred From UK Government Cloud 79
Red Light Cameras Raise Crash Risk, Cost 499
Prediction Market Site InTrade Bans US Customers 260
Sandia Lab Celebrates Inventor of the Modern Clean Room 42
Federal Officials Take Down 132 Websites In "Cyber Monday" Crackdown 153
US Scientific R&D Could Face Fiscal Cliff Doom 609
Legislators Call On Twitter To Ban Hamas 486
FBI Asked Megaupload To Preserve Pirated Files, Then Used Them Against Dotcom 241
Cyber Corps Program Trains Spies For the Digital Age, In Oklahoma 118
LiMux Project Has Saved Munich €10m So Far 219
Fox News Parent NewsCorp May Face Corruption Investigation 145
World Governments Object To New gTLDs 135
Outrage In India Over Arrests For Facebook Posts 90
Google Warns Against UN Net Conference 79
NTSB Dumps BlackBerry In Favor of iPhone 5 100
Judge Demands Email and Facebook Passwords From Women In Sexual Harassment Case 218
Brazil and Peru Dispute .Amazon TLD 163
Climate Contrarians Seek Leadership of House Science Committee 518
That Was Fast: Leahy Drops Warrantless E-mail Surveillance Bill 107
Jail Looms For Man Who Revealed AT&T Leaked iPad User E-Mails 124
Senate Bill Rewrite Lets Feds Read Your E-mail Without Warrants 403
Man Arrested At Oakland Airport For Ornate Watch 519
David Cameron 'Orders New Curbs On Internet Porn' 345
Judge Accepts $22.5M Google Fine In Privacy Case 25
German City Says OpenOffice Shortcomings Are Forcing It Back To Microsoft 480
House Subcommittee Holds Hearing On TSA's "Scanner Shuffle" 134
In UK, Twitter, Facebook Rants Land Some In Jail 233
NASA To Encrypt All of Its Laptops 226
US Air Force Scraps ERP Project After $1 Billion Spent 362
Petraeus Case Illustrates FBI Authority To Read Email 228
With NCLB Waiver, Virginia Sorts Kids' Scores By Race 622
Homeland Security Mining Social Media For Signs of Bio Attacks 96
Support Forums Reveal SCADA Infections 66
NRC Report Links Climate Change To National Security 242
CIA Director David Petraeus Resigns, Citing Affair 401
Romney Campaign Accidentally Launches Transition Web Site 185
All of Nate Silver's State-Level Polling Predictions Proved True 576
Australia Scales Back Internet Blacklist, Nixes Full-Scale Censorship 51
Bradley Manning Offers Partial Guilty Plea To Military Court 380
EFF Sues to Block New Internet Sex-Offender Law 305
AT&T To Pay $700,000 For Overcharging Consumers 74
Barack Obama Retains US Presidency 1576
A Trail of Clicks, Culminating In Conflict 65
U.S. Election Day In Progress: What's Been Your Experience? 821
Ask Slashdot: How To Become Informed In Judicial Elections? 153
Should Hacked Companies Disclose Their Losses? 68
Amazon Charges Sales Tax On "Shipping and Handling" 330
Apple Pays Only 2% Corporate Tax Outside US 432
New Jersey Residents Displaced By Storm Can Vote By Email 189
European Central Bank Casts Wary Eye Toward Bitcoin 301
Nonpartisan Tax Report Removed After Republican Protest 555
UK Takes Huge Step Forward On Open Standards 67
US Government: You Don't Own Your Cloud Data So We Can Access It At Any Time 531
IEEE Standards For Voting Machines 221
Department of Homeland Security Wants Nerds For a New "Cyber Reserve'" 204
US Offers New Plans 1 Month Before UN Meeting To Regulate Web 128
FTC Whacks "Rachel From Card Holder Services" 289
NASA Teams To Build Gyroscopes 1,000X More Sensitive Than Current Systems 91
Stolen Cellphone Databases Switched On In US 165
Irked By Cyberspying, Georgia Outs Russia-based Hacker 95
France Applies Tax Pressure To Google For Republishing News Snippets 350
Telling the Truth In Today's China 157
Showdown Set On Bid To Give UN Control of Internet 316
US and Canada Launch Joint Cybersecurity Plan 42
Pakastani Politician Detained By US Customs Over Opposition To Drone Strikes 560
Canadian Police Want New Internet Surveillance Tools 64
Cash-Strapped States Burdened By Expensive Data Security Breaches 58
Cisco Pricing Undercut By $100M In Big Cal State University Network Project 220
South Carolina Department of Revenue Hacked, 3.6 Million SSNs Taken 112
TechCrunch Launches CrunchGov, a Tech Policy Platform 24
What an Anti-Google Antitrust Case By the FTC May Look Like 167
UK Gov't Official Advises Using Fake Details On Social Networks 175
DoJ Investigating Samsung For Patent Abuse 146
Pirate Bay Co-Founder In Solitary Confinement 259
DARPA Funds a $300 Software-Defined Radio For Hackers 94
Pols Blur Line Between Data Mining, Cyberstalking 115
States Face Huge Task In Tracking Meningitis-Tainted Drugs 99
Spammers Using Shortened .gov URLs 75
The Long Reach of US Extradition 242
China's Yearly Budget For High-Speed Rail: $100 Billion 230
Dutch Ministry Proposes Powers For Police To Hack Computers, Install Spyware 130
TSA Moving X-ray Body Scanners To Smaller Airports 168
Free Online Education Unwelcome In Minnesota 240
FTC Offers $50,000 For Best Way To Stop Robocalls 614
Google Threatens French Media Ban 419
"New Statesman" Pirates Its Own Magazine 117
Former Australian Cop Wants Jail For Internet Trolls 254
Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Calls For Governments To End Patent Wars 135
UK Police Fined For Using Unencrypted Memory Sticks 100
Uber Gives Up On New York Taxi Service 180
Texas Schools Using Electronic Chips To Track Students; Parents In Uproar 540
Congressman Warns FTC: Leave Google Alone 303
FCC To Allow Cable Companies To Encrypt Over-the-Air Channels 376
CIA: Flying Skyhook Wasn't Just For James Bond, It Actually Rescued Agents 123
Precision Espionage MiniFlame Malware Tied To Flame 34
Shut Up and Play Nice: How the Western World Is Limiting Free Speech 1160
Pennsylvania Fracking Law Opens Up Drilling On College Campuses 208
Lawsuit Challenges New York Sugary Drink Ban 642
Stallman On Unity Dash: Canonical Will Have To Give Users' Data To Governments 187
U.S. Defense Secretary Warns of a Possible 'Cyber-Pearl Harbor' 190
FTC To Recommend Antitrust Case Against Google 195
The New School Nurse Is Nurse Ratched 196
Seattle Police Want More Drones, Even While Two Sit Unused 144
The Great Meteor Grab 152
Libertarian Candidate Excluded From Debate For Refusing Corporate Donations 627
19,000 Emails Against and 0 In Favor of UK Draft Communications Bill 174
US Election's Only VP Debate Tonight: Weigh In With Your Reactions 698
Prince of Sealand Dies At 91 218
Pressure Rises On German Science Minister In Plagiarism Scandal 130
US Looks For Input On "The Next Big Things" 309
US Supreme Court Says Wiretapping Immunity Will Stand 203
Expenditure Report Reveals Germany Monitors Skype, Google Mail, Facebook Chat 89
Study: Kids Under 3 Should Be Banned From Watching TV 334
Study Shows Tech Execs Slightly Prefer Romney Over Obama 461
How We'll Get To 54.5 Mpg By 2025 717
Spreadsheet Blamed For UK Rail Bid Fiasco 125
Hiring Smokers Banned In South Florida City 1199
FCC Chief: 300MHz More Spectrum By 2015 60
FTC Releases Google Privacy Audit, Blacks Out the Details 57
The CIA and Jeff Bezos Bet $30 Million On Quantum Computing Company 73
Starting Next Year, Brazil Wants To Track All Cars Electronically 178
MPAA Boss Admits SOPA and PIPA Are Dead, Not Coming Back 186
French Science and Higher Education Programs Avoid Austerity 139
Report Slams DHS Fusion Centers: No Terrorists Nabbed, Civil Rights Violated 178
82-Year-Old Nun Breaks Into Nuclear Facility, Contractors Blamed 223
The Most Important Meeting You've Never Heard of 171
Illegal Downloading Now a Crime In Japan With Increased Penalties 286
LightSquared Wants To Share Weather-Balloon Frequencies for LTE 141
UK Ministers' Private Communications Subject To Freedom of Information Act 38
New Content-Delivery Tech Should Be Presumed Illegal, Says Former Copyright Boss 379
IPv6 Must Be Enabled On All US Government Sites By Sunday 179
Innocence of Muslims Filmmaker Arrested, Jailed 747
Astronomy Portfolio Review Recommends Defunding US's Biggest Telescope 192
California Employers Can't Ask For Your Facebook Password 363
Electronic Surveillance By US Law Enforcement Agencies Rising Steeply 105
ASIC Seeks Power To Read Your Emails 114
US Department of Homeland Security Looking For a Few Good Drones 92
US Military Designates Julian Assange an "Enemy of State" 805
Google Brazil Exec "Detained" For Refusing YouTube Takedown Order 131
Appeals Court Caves To TSA Over Nude Body Scanners 169
Cybersecurity Laws Would Do More Harm Than Good 77
Light Bulb Ban Produces Hoarding In EU, FUD In U.S. 1080
Canadian Minister Mined Data To Target Email To Gay Voters 145
NZ To Investigate Illegally Intercepted Data In Dotcom Case 53
Iran Set To Block Access To Google 279
Google Could Face Heavy Antitrust Fines In the EU 292
Gates and Others Offer $150k For Open Source School Software 151
Medicare Bills Rise As Records Turn Electronic 294
Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots 584
Space Shuttle Items For Sale Soon VIa GSA Auction 59
US House STEM Visa Bill Fails 133
US Military Tested the Effects of a Nuclear Holocaust On Beer 215
No Smiles At NJ Motor Vehicle Commission 265
Apple's Secret Plan To Join iPhones With Airport Security 232
Feds Add 9 Felony Charges Against Swartz For JSTOR Hack 252
AT&T Facing Net Neutrality Complaint Over FaceTime Restrictions 95
How Big Pharma Hooked America On Legal Heroin 499
Verizon Offers Free Tethering Because It Has To 180
UK Government Owns 16.9 Million Unused IPv4 Addresses 399
How the Critics of the Apollo Program Were Proven Wrong 421
NASA To Face $1.3 Billion Cut Next Year Under Sequestration 242
BitInstant CEO Says World Operates "On an Inferior Monetary System" 185
Chicago Teachers Rip 'Big Money Interest Groups' 404
Anonymous' Barrett Brown Raided By FBI During Online Chat 208
Why WikiLeaks' Spinoff OpenLeaks Failed 79
Japan Aims To Abandon Nuclear Power By 2030s 214
DHS Gets Public Comment, Whether It Wants It Or Not 228
House Approves Extending the Warrantless Wiretapping Act 326
EVE Online CSM and Diplomat Killed in Libyan Consulate Attacks 680
GAO Slams DHS Over BioWatch Biological Defense System 88
MediaFire Restores Virus Researcher's Account But Not Individual Files 72
How Spyware Reaches Oppressive Governments 109
Election Tech: In Canada, They Actually Count the Votes 500
White House Circulating Draft of Executive Order On Cybersecurity 94
Finnish Bureaucracy Takes Issue With Crowdfunded Textbook 149
Poll-Based System Predicts U.S. Election Results For President, Senate 519
FBI Launches $1 Billion Nationwide Face Recognition System 188
Jimmy Wales Threatens To Obstruct UK Government Snooping 198
TSA Says Screening Drinks Purchased Inside Airport Terminal Is Nothing New 427
Impending CA Sales Tax Sparks Amazon Buying Frenzy 259
FBI Denies It Held iPhone UDIDs Stolen By AntiSec 216
Australian Attorney General Pushes Ahead With Gov't Web Snooping 148
Business Tier For Australia's NBN Brings Big Possibilities For VoIP 70
Anonymous Leaks 1M Apple Device UDIDs 282
Russia's New Secure Android Tablet Keeps Data From Google 127
FinSpy Commercial Spyware Abused By Governments 87
Japan Considers '911' Calls From Twitter, Social Networks 116
Malaysian Cyber Cafe Owners Liable For Patron Behavior 119
Can Data Mining Win a Presidential Campaign? 124
Would You Pay an Internet Broadband Tax? 601
Russia's Former KGB Invests In Political Propaganda Spambots 164
Hackers Dump Millions of Records From Banks, Politicians 310
Doctorow on the War on General Purpose Computing 360
Why WikiLeaks Is Worth Defending 257
Power Problems Force Seattle To Throttle City Data Center For Days 85
Location Privacy Act Approved By California Legislature 65
Radio Royalty Legislation Described As 'RIAA Bailout' 272
Ex-Lulzsec-Head Sabu Rewarded Six-Month Sentencing Delay 131
BBC Criticized For Snooping Under RIPA Powers 183

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