Government Stories for 2014

Out With the Red-Light Cameras, In With the Speeding Cameras 335
NSA Says They Have VPNs In a 'Vulcan Death Grip' 234
CIA on UFO Sightings: 'It Was Us' 197
Gmail Access Starts To Come Back In China, State-Run Paper Blames Google 45
Snowden Documents Show How Well NSA Codebreakers Can Pry 278
White House Touts Obama's 1-Liner as 2014 Tech Highlight 65
The Interview Bombs In US, Kills In China, Threatens N. Korea 288
N. Korea Blames US For Internet Outage, Compares Obama to "a Monkey" 206
Newest Stealth Fighter's Ground Attack Sensors 10 Years Behind Older Jets' 279
Romanian Cybersecurity Law Will Allow Warrantless Access To Data 62
Net Neutrality Comments Overtaxed FCC's System 32
NSA Reveals More Than a Decade of Improper Surveillance 118
US Navy Sells 'Top Gun' Aircraft Carrier For One Penny 118
North Korean Defector Spills Details On the Country's Elite Hacking Force 166
DARPA Wants Help Building a Drone That Flies Like a Hawk 42
How Laws Restricting Tech Actually Expose Us To Greater Harm 116
Study: Police Body-Cams Reduce Unacceptable Use of Force 368
Comcast-TWC Merger Review On Hold 88
BT, Sky, and Virgin Enforce UK Porn Blocks By Hijacking Browsers 294
Comcast's Lobbyists Hand Out VIP Cards To Skip the Customer Service Wait 131
Tor Warns of Possible Disruption of Network Through Server Seizures 19
Australia Moves Toward New Restrictions On Technology Export and Publication 91
Councilmen Introduce Bills Strongly Regulating UAV Use in NYC 68
Army To Launch Spy Blimp Over Maryland 177
Single Group Dominates Second Round of Anti Net-Neutrality Comment Submissions 218
Verizon "End-to-End" Encrypted Calling Includes Law Enforcement Backdoor 170
NASA's $349 Million Empty Tower 200
Snowden Leaks Prompt Internet Users Worldwide To Protect Their Data 53
The Pirate Bay Responds To Raid 302
Govt Docs Reveal Canadian Telcos Promise Surveillance Ready Networks 74
Attorney General Won't Force New York Times Reporter To Reveal Source 55
'Revolving Door' Spins Between AT&T, Government 61
Google Closing Engineering Office In Russia 157
Congress Passes Bill Allowing Warrantless Forfeiture of Private Communications 379
Army Building an Airport Just For Drones 48
Report: Big Issues Remain Before Drones Can Safely Access National Airspace 129
Feds Plan For 35 Agencies To Collect, Share, Use Health Records of Americans 209
Microsoft To US Gov't: the World's Servers Are Not Yours For the Taking 192
CIA Lied Over Brutal Interrogations 772
Court Orders Uber To Shut Down In Spain 280
The Rise of the Global Surveillance Profiteers 33
FISA Court Extends Section 215 Bulk Surveillance For 90 Days 83
Economist: US Congress Should Hack Digital Millennium Copyright Act 129
Tesla Wants Texas Auto Sales Regulations Loosened 137
Twitter Use By Romney and Obama In 2012 Highlight the Speed of Social Media 47
New Mexico Levies $54M Against Energy Dept. For Violations At Nuclear Repository 36
NSF Accused of Misuse of Funds In Giant Ecological Project 116
US Treasury Dept: Banks Should Block Tor Nodes 84
EU May Not Unify Its Data Protection Rules After All 55
Chinese Government Moves To Crack Down On Puns 156
Should IT Professionals Be Exempt From Overtime Regulations? 545
In North Korea, Hackers Are a Handpicked, Pampered Elite 102
DOJ Launches New Cybercrime Unit, Claims Privacy Top Priority 61
FTC: Online Billing Service Deceptively Collected Medical Records 25
How the NSA Is Spying On Everyone: More Revelations 148
'Moneyball' Approach Reduces Crime In New York City 218
What Canada Can Teach the US About Net Neutrality 80
Comcast Forgets To Delete Revealing Note From Blog Post 114
UK Announces 'Google Tax' 602
FBI Seizes Los Angeles Schools' iPad Documents 229
18th Century Law Dredged Up To Force Decryption of Devices 446
Obama Offers Funding For 50,000 Police Body Cameras 262
How the FCC CIO Plans To Modernize 207 Legacy IT Systems 74
Probe Into NSA Activity Reveals Germany Spying On Germans 83
Gilbert, AZ Censors Biology Books the Old-Fashioned Way 289
Google Should Be Broken Up, Say European MPs 237
Wikipedia's "Complicated" Relationship With Net Neutrality 134
Clarificiation on the IP Address Security in Dropbox Case 152
Sony To Offer Partial Refunds For PS Vita 60
New Snowden Docs Show GCHQ Paid Telcos For Cable Taps 90
Kim Dotcom Regrets Not Taking Copyright Law and MPAA "More Seriously" 151
Cameron Accuses Internet Companies Of Giving Terrorists Safe Haven 183
DHS Set To Destroy "Einstein" Surveillance Records 71
Bidding In Government Auction of Airwaves Reaches $34 Billion 85
Prospects Rise For a 2015 UN Climate Deal, But Likely To Be Weak 145
Spaceport America Loses $1.7 Million Due To Virgin Galactic Delays 46
Judge Unseals 500+ Stingray Records 165
Another Hint For Kryptos 50
The EU Has a Plan To Break Up Google 334
Top NSA Official Raised Alarm About Metadata Program In 2009 110
Obama's Immigration Order To Give Tech Industry Some, Leave 'Em Wanting More 186
Culberson As Chair of NASA Fundng Subcommittee Makes Europa Mission More Likely 57
Greenwald Advises Market-Based Solution To Mass Surveillance 157
US Intelligence Unit Launches $50k Speech Recognition Competition 62
Number of Coders In Congress To Triple (From One To Three) 163
Head of FCC Proposes Increasing Internet School Fund 107
Republicans Block Latest Attempt At Curbing NSA Power 445
Sweden Considers Adding "Sexism" Ratings To Video Games 642
State Department Joins NOAA, USPS In Club of Hacked Federal Agencies 54
US DOE Sets Sights On 300 Petaflop Supercomputer 127
Former Police Officer Indicted For Teaching How To Pass a Polygraph Test 328
Comcast Kisses-Up To Obama, Publicly Agrees On Net Neutrality 258
The Downside to Low Gas Prices 554
FCC Says Net Neutrality Decision Delay Is About Courts, Not Politics 60
Internet Voting Hack Alters PDF Ballots In Transmission 148
AT&T To "Pause" Gigabit Internet Rollout Until Net Neutrality Is Settled 308
Internet Sales Tax Bill Dead In Congress 257
U.S. and China Make Landmark Climate Deal 285
FCC Confirms Delay of New Net Neutrality Rules Until 2015 127
US Postal Service Suspends Telecommuting Following Massive Breach 50
Gridlock In Action: Retailers Demand New Regulations To Protect Consumers 127
German Spy Agency Seeks Millions To Monitor Social Networks 59
Tor Project Mulls How Feds Took Down Hidden Websites 135
Report: Federal Workers, Contractors Behind Half of Government Cyber Breaches 61
President Obama Backs Regulation of Broadband As a Utility 706
25th Anniversary: When the Berlin Wall Fell 151
Washington Dancers Sue To Prevent Identity Disclosure 461
Judge Says Public Has a Right To Know About FBI's Facial Recognition Database 79
Amazon's Luxembourg Tax Deals 200
Net Neutrality Alone Won't Solve ISP Throttling Abuse, Here's Why 200
NSA Director Says Agency Shares Most, But Not All, Bugs It Finds 170
Government Data Requests To Facebook Up By 24% 42
Computer Scientists Say Meme Research Doesn't Threaten Free Speech 109
Ford Develops a Way To Monitor Police Driving 151
China To Merge High-Speed Train Makers To Cut Competition 88
Australian Courts Will Be Able To See Your Browsing History 182
Ferguson No-Fly Zone Revealed As Anti-Media Tactic 265
US Midterm Elections Discussion 401
Is Public Debate of Trade Agreements Against the Public Interest? 219
Real Net Neutrality Problem: 'Edge Provider' vs 'End User' 97
Video Raises Doubts About Attkisson's Claims of Malicious Hacking 105
Free Broadband For NYC Public Housing? 250
Boo! The House Majority PAC Is Watching You 468
Colleges Face New 'Gainful Employment' Regulations For Student Loans 331
Hungary's Plans For Internet Tax On Hold After Protests 48
Statisticians Study Who Was Helped Most By Obamacare 739
Swedish Regulator Orders Last "Hold-Out" ISP To Retain Customer Data 43
Australian Gov't Tries To Force Telcos To Store User Metadata For 2 Years 58
MIT Professor Advocates Ending Asteroid Redirect Mission To Fund Asteroid Survey 116
Labor Department To Destroy H-1B Records 190
Secret Policy Allows GCHQ Bulk Access To NSA Data 95
Power and Free Broadband To the People 262
Is the Outrage Over the FBI's Seattle Times Tactics a Knee-Jerk Reaction? 206
Hackers Breach White House Network 98
Open Consultation Begins On Italy's Internet Bill of Rights 95
Tech Giants Donate $750 Million In Goods and Services To Underprivileged Schools 143
US Post Office Increases Secret Tracking of Mail 112
Ken Ham's Ark Torpedoed With Charges of Religious Discrimination 451
FTC Sues AT&T For Throttling 'Unlimited' Data Plan Customers Up To 90% 179
Taking the Census, With Cellphones 57
20 More Cities Want To Join the Fight Against Big Telecom's Broadband Monopolies 97
Ex-CBS Reporter Claims Government Agency Bugged Her Computer 235
Steve Ballmer Gets Billion-Dollar Tax Write-Off For Being Basketball Baron 255
Study: New Jersey e-Vote Experiment After Sandy a Disaster 77
Law Lets IRS Seize Accounts On Suspicion, No Crime Required 424
When Snowden Speaks, Future Lawyers (and Judges) Listen 221
Identity As the Great Enabler 58
CHP Officers Steal, Forward Nude Pictures From Arrestee Smartphones 275
Incapacitating Chemical Agents: Coming Soon To Local Law Enforcement? 152
Tech Firm Fined For Paying Imported Workers $1.21 Per Hour 286
Sale of IBM's Chip-Making Business To GlobalFoundries To Get US Security Review 95
Proposed Penalty For UK Hackers Who "Damage National Security": Life 165
Michigan Latest State To Ban Direct Tesla Sales 256
Shooting At Canadian Parliament 529
DHS Investigates 24 Potentially Lethal IoT Medical Devices 79
Safercar.gov Overwhelmed By Recall For Deadly Airbags 120
Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected 398
Facebook To DEA: Stop Using Phony Profiles To Nab Criminals 239
32 Cities Want To Challenge Big Telecom, Build Their Own Gigabit Networks 175
How Lobby Groups Rejected the Canadian Government's Plan To Combat Patent Trolls 57
The Woman Who Should Have Been the First Female Astronaut 200
BBC Takes a Stand For the Public's Right To Remember Redacted Links 113
Florida Supreme Court: Police Can't Grab Cell Tower Data Without a Warrant 114
NSA CTO Patrick Dowd Moonlighting For Private Security Firm 83
South Korean ID System To Be Rebuilt From Scratch After Massive Leaks 59
As Prison Population Sinks, Jails Are a Steal 407
Trans-Pacific Partnership May Endanger World Health, Newly Leaked Chapter Shows 132
Internet Companies Want Wireless Net Neutrality Too 38
FBI Director Continues His Campaign Against Encryption 284
Michigan About To Ban Tesla Sales 294
Journalists Route Around White House Press Office 111
Worcester Mass. City Council Votes To Keep Comcast From Entering the Area 232
Commerce Secretary: US Wants Multi-Stakeholder Process To Preserve Internet 57
Pentagon Reportedly Hushed Up Chemical Weapons Finds In Iraq 376
Too Much Privacy: Finnish Police Want Big Euro Notes Taken Out of Circulation 314
Who's In Charge During the Ebola Crisis? 279
China Bans "Human Flesh Searching" 109
Snowden's Tough Advice For Guarding Privacy 210
Ex-NSA Director Keith Alexander's Investments In Tech Firms: "No Conflict" 59
Core Secrets: NSA Saboteurs In China and Germany 228
NSA To Scientists: We Won't Tell You What We've Told You; That's Classified 106
FBI Says It Will Hire No One Who Lies About Illegal Downloading 580
The CDC Is Carefully Controlling How Scared You Are About Ebola 478
Accessing One's Own Metadata 94
National Security Letter Issuance Likely Headed To Supreme Court 112
Eric Schmidt: Anxiety Over US Spying Will "Break the Internet" 179
AT&T To Repay $80 Million In Shady Phone Bill Charges 61
Gmail Security Is a Problem For Tor Users In Repressive Countries 74
Fuel Efficiency Numbers Overstate MPG More For Cars With Small Engines 403
US Says It Can Hack Foreign Servers Without Warrants 335
Department of Defense May Give Private Cloud Vendors Access To Top Secret Data 60
Twitter Sues US Government Over National Security Data Requests 57
DoJ: Law Enforcement Can Impersonate People On Facebook 191
Brits Must Trade Digital Freedoms For Safety, Says Crime Agency Boss 264
Dubai Police To Use Google Glass For Facial Recognition 122
Why the FCC Will Probably Ignore the Public On Network Neutrality 336
NASA Asks Boeing, SpaceX To Stop Work On Next-Gen Space Taxi 139
FCC Puts Comcast and Time Warner Merger On Hold 132
JP Morgan Chase Breach: Shades of a Cyber Cold War? 96
James Bamford Releases DOJ Report On NSA Warrantless Wiretapping From 1976 54
Silk Road Lawyers Poke Holes In FBI's Story 191
Conservative Groups Accuse FCC of Helping Net Neutrality Advocates File Comments 283
Senators Threaten To Rescind NFL Antitrust Exemption 242
How Hackers Accidentally Sold a Pre-Release XBox One To the FBI 67
UK Government Tax Disc Renewal Website Buckles Under Pressure 145
Bangladesh Considers Building World's 5th-largest Data Center In Earthquake Zone 65
Leaked Docs Reveal List of 30 Countries Hacked On Orders of FBI Informant Sabu 78
The $1,200 DIY Gunsmithing Machine 651
The Executive Order That Redefines Data Collection 126
California Governor Vetoes Bill Requiring Warrants For Drone Surveillance 115
Energy Utilities Trying To Stifle Growth of Solar Power 488
Sierra Nevada Corp. Files Legal Challenge Against NASA Commercial Contracts 127
State of Iowa Tells Tesla To Cancel Its Scheduled Test Drives 335
The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes 201
NASA Expands Commercial Space Program 24
How the NSA Profits Off of Its Surveillance Technology 83
Forest Service Wants To Require Permits For Photography 299
FBI Chief: Apple, Google Phone Encryption Perilous 354
FAA Clears Movie and TV Drones For Takeoff 50
Drones Reveal Widespread Tax Evasion In Argentina 208
Why India's Mars Probe Was So Cheap 200
Microsoft On US Immigration: It's Our Way Or the Canadian Highway 365
Where Whistleblowers End Up Working 224
Seattle Passes Laws To Keep Residents From Wasting Food 385
To Fight $5.2B In Identity Theft, IRS May Need To Change the Way You File Taxes 410
Netflix Rejects Canadian Regulator Jurisdiction Over Online Video 184
Service Promises To Leak Your Documents If the Government Murders You 98
Before Using StingRays, Police Must Sign NDA With FBI 124
Nobody's Neutral In Net Neutrality Debate 132
Wired Profiles John Brooks, the Programmer Behind Ricochet 49
Secret Service Critics Pounce After White House Breach 221
Emails Cast Unflattering Light On Internal Politics of Healthcare.gov Rollout 392
Is Google's Non-Tax Based Public School Funding Cause For Celebration? 88
Canadian Regulator Threatens To Impose New Netflix Regulation 324
Snowden's Leaks Didn't Help Terrorists 183
FCC Chairman: Americans Shouldn't Subsidize Internet Service Under 10Mbps 353
Airbnb To Start Collecting Hotel Tax On Rentals In San Francisco 71
NSA Director Says Agency Is Still Trying To Figure Out Cyber Operations 103
The Case For a Federal Robotics Commission 70
NASA's Manned Rocket Contract: $4.2 Billion To Boeing, $2.6 Billion To SpaceX 188
FBI Completes New Face Recognition System 129
New Global Plan Would Crack Down On Corporate Tax Avoidance 324
WSJ Reports Boeing To Beat SpaceX For Manned Taxi To ISS 200
AT&T Proposes Net Neutrality Compromise 243
NSW Police Named as FinFisher Spyware Users 73
Funding Tech For Government, Instead of Tech For Industry 64
Court: Car Dealers Can't Stop Tesla From Selling In Massachusetts 155
The FCC Net Neutrality Comment Deadline Has Arrived: What Now? 131
How Governments Are Getting Around the UN's Ban On Blinding Laser Weapons 180
New Details About NSA's Exhaustive Search of Edward Snowden's Emails 200

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