Government Stories for 2016

China Says It Will Shut Down Ivory Trade By End of 2017 67
Governments Shut Down the Internet More Than 50 Times in 2016 34
FBI and Homeland Security Detail Russian Hacking Campaign In New Report 404
Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources Site No Longer Says Humans Cause Climate Change 371
Republicans Propose Bill To Impose Fines For Live-Streaming From House Floor 157
US Announces Response To Russian Election Hacking [Update] 821
Florida Senator: No Permit Needed For Driverless Cars In Florida 131
Czech Republic Sets Up Counter-Terrorism Unit To Counter Fake News Threat 119
FDA Releases New Cybersecurity Guidelines For Medical Devices 40
Police Request Amazon Echo Recordings For Homicide Investigation 168
The US Government is Loaning Millions of Dollars To Jumpstart Urban Farming 131
US Court Demands Documents On AT&T/Police Collaboration 48
US Congressional Committee Concludes Encryption Backdoors Won't Work 98
US Government Begins Asking Foreign Travelers About Social Media 121
FBI Probes FDIC Hack Linked To China's Military: Reuters 22
Russian Authorities Are Trying To Unlock iPhone 4S From Russian Ambassador's Killer 106
US Government Targets Pirate Bay and Other 'Piracy Havens' 82
Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars From San Francisco, Sends Them To Arizona 150
Russians Used Malware On Android Devices To Track and Target Ukraine Artillery, Says Report 101
Congressional Report Claims Snowden In 'Contact With Russian Intelligence' 185
Uber Stops Self-Driving Car Pilot In San Francisco After The DMV Steps In 151
NIST Asks Public For Help With Quantum-Proof Cryptography 138
Canada's CRTC Declares Broadband Internet Access a Basic Service 48
Yahoo Email Scan Shows US Spy Push To Recast Constitutional Privacy 65
Obama Blocks Offshore Drilling In Atlantic, Arctic Areas 338
Government Requests For Facebook User Data Up 27 Percent in First Half of 2016 19
EU's Highest Court Delivers Blow To UK Snooper's Charter 156
White House: US Needs a Stronger Social Safety Net To Help Workers Displaced by Robots 635
Chicago Electronics Recycler Faked Tear-Downs, Sent Hazardous Waste To Overseas Landfills 91
US Fails To Renegotiate Arms Control Rule For Hacking Tools 31
Twitter Will Hand Over Data On the User Who Sent a Seizure-Inducing Tweet To a Journalist 492
Solar Is Top Source of New Capacity On the US Grid In 2016 192
Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President 1069
South Carolina Bill Wants To Put Porn Blocks On New Computers 351
IBM Employees Protest Cooperation With Donald Trump 600
House Committee Urges Congress To Pass Stingray Surveillance Legislation 25
Finland Will Give Some Unemployed Citizens a Basic Income 441
A Century of Surveillance: An Interactive Timeline Of FBI Investigations 55
The FBI Is Arresting People Who Rent DDoS Botnets 212
EFF Begins Investigating Surveillance Technology Rumors At Standing Rock 147
US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change 534
The UN Will Consider Banning Killer Robots 210
U.S. Proposes Car-To-Car Data Sharing Standards 134
China Says It Will Return the Underwater Drone It Seized From the US 199
Germany Threatens To Fine Facebook Over Hate Speech 321
Election Assistance Commission Hacked Using SQL Injection 103
AT&T, Verizon Tell FCC To Back Off On Net Neutrality Complaints 102
Twitter Blocks Government 'Spy Centers' From Accessing User Data 46
White House Supports Claim Putin Directed US Election Hack 715
Businesses May No Longer Sue Customers Over Negative Reviews 98
Donald Trump To Tech Leaders: 'No Formal Chain Of Command' Here 488
Twitter Cut Out of Trump Tech Meeting Over Failed Emoji Deal, Says Report 551
Newly Uncovered Site Suggests NSA Exploits For Direct Sale 33
Uber Appeals Against Ruling that Its UK Drivers Are Workers 178
Elon Musk and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Will Advise Trump On Business Issues 244
Snowden: 'The Central Problem of the Future' Is Control of User Data 157
IBM Promises To Hire 25,000 Americans As Tech Executives Set To Meet Trump 244
Google Publishes Eight National Security Letters 63
A Typo Led To Podesta's Email Hack, Says Report 274
Florida Court Says Suspected Voyeur Must Reveal His iPhone Passcode To Police 184
Feds Unveil Rule Requiring Cars To 'Talk' To Each Other 292
Energy Department Refuses To Give Trump Team Names of People Who Worked On Climate Change 858
Why Did Japan Just Ratify The TPP? 225
Google Global Cache Is Coming to Cuba 46
NSA's Best Are 'Leaving In Big Numbers,' Insiders Say 412
Does The 'Snoopers Charter' Also Enshrine Lying In Court? 123
Struggling Workers Found Sleeping In Tents Behind Amazon's Warehouse 433
Inside the NYPD's Attempt To Build Community Trust Through Twitter 59
FBI Relents, Confirms Previously-Denied UFO Investigation 85
The DEA Has Been Secretly Paying Transport Employees To Search Travelers' Bags 165
DHS Tried To Breach Our Firewall, Says Georgia's Secretary of State 146
US Presidential Election Was Most 'Talked About' Topic In 2016, Says Facebook 88
Watchdog Group Claims Smart Toys Are Spying On Kids 70
AT&T To Cough Up $88 Million For 'Cramming' Mobile Customer Bills 37
Congress Passes BOTS Act To Ban Ticket-Buying Software 221
Paris Makes All Public Transportation Free In Battle Against 'Worst Air Pollution For 10 Years' 239
NSA, GCHQ Have Been Intercepting In-Flight Mobile Calls For Years 99
T-Mobile CFO: Less Regulation, Repeal of Net Neutrality By Trump Would Be 'Positive For My Industry' 158
White House Silence Seems To Confirm $4 Billion 'Computer Science For All' K-12 Initiative Is No More 280
California State Senator Introduces Bill That Would Mandate Reporting of 'Superbug' Infections, Deaths 75
Millions In US Still Living Life In Internet Slow Lane 209
EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws 373
70 Laptops Got Left Behind At An Airport Security Checkpoint In One Month 170
Virginia Police Spent $500K For An Ineffective Cellphone Surveillance System 36
For The UK's 'Snoopers' Charter', Politicians Voted Themselves An Exemption 134
UK Health Secretary Urges Social Media Companies To Block Cyberbullying And Underaged Sexting 71
The US Government Funds A War On Online Fake News 360
It Will Soon Be Illegal To Punish US Customers Who Criticize Businesses Online 90
China's New 'Social Credit Score' Law Means Full Access To Customer Data 83
Encryption Backdoor Sneaks Into UK Law 137
Of 8 Tech Companies, Only Twitter Says It Would Refuse To Help Build Muslim Registry For Trump 588
Paris, Madrid, Athens, Mexico City Will Ban Diesel Vehicles By 2025 243
Stephen Hawking: Automation and AI Is Going To Decimate Middle Class Jobs 468
China Is Censoring People's Chats Without Them Even Knowing About It 76
International Authorities Take Down Massive 'Avalanche' Botnet, Sinkhole Over 800,000 Domains 53
Apple Will Use Drones To Improve the Quality of Apple Maps 44
Bitcoin Exchange Ordered To Give IRS Years of Data On Millions of Users 203
FDA Approves Large Clinical Trial For Ecstasy As Relief For PTSD Patients 151
Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules 1058
Trump Appoints Third Net Neutrality Critic To FCC Advisory Team 191
FBI To Gain Expanded Hacking Powers as Senate Effort To Block Fails 153
It Will Soon Be Illegal To Punish Customers Who Criticize Businesses Online 155
Japan Fukushima Nuclear Plant 'Clean-Up Costs Double,' Approaching $200 Billion 302
EU's Law Enforcement Agency Closes 4,500 Websites Peddling Fake Brands 72
EPA Increases Amount of Renewable Fuel To Be Blended Into Gasoline 351
48 Organizations Now Have Access To Every Brit's Browsing Hstory 251
Online Pranksters Mock Trump's $149 Christmas Ornament, Rename Trump Tower on Google Maps 524
Julian Assange Could Be Time's 'Person Of The Year', And Is Also Still Not Dead 145
Ransomware Compromises San Francisco's Mass Transit System 141
Will Trump Protect America's IT Workers From H-1B Visa Abuses? 400
Lawrence Lessig Calls For The Electoral College to Choose Clinton Over Trump 1430
Fidel Castro Is Dead 279
6 Major Countries Have Recently Announced Plans To Phase-Out All Coal-Fired Power Plants 275
Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn Had 'Forbidden' Internet Connection At the Pentagon, Says Report 314
Russian Propaganda Effort Helped Spread 'Fake News' During Election, Experts Say 272
Green Party Calls For Recount, Wants To Push For Open-Source Voting Machines 299
Edward Snowden Loses Norway Safe Passage Case 73
IBM To Pay More Than $30 Million in Compensation For Census Fail 60
Trump To Scrap NASA Climate Research In Crackdown On 'Politicized Science' 667
Snowden Can Be Asked To Testify In Person In Germany NSA Probe 72
Samsung Group Offices Raided By Korean Prosecutors 20
Trump Says He's Going To 'Get Apple To Build a Big Plant In the United States' 471
FBI Hacked Over 8,000 Computers In 120 Countries Based on One Warrant 90
American Computer Scientists Grace Hopper, Margaret Hamilton Receive Presidential Medals of Freedom 126
Trump Admits 'Some Connectivity' Between Climate Change and Human Activity 559
Surveillance Firm 'Geofeedia' Cuts Half of Staff After Losing Access To Twitter, Facebook 31
Trump Names Two Opponents of Net Neutrality To Oversee FCC Transition Team 395
President Obama Says He Can't Pardon Snowden 534
New York's District Attorney: Roll Back Apple's iPhone Encryption 215
Privacy Group Sues The FBI, Demanding Details About Biometric Database Sharing 16
Major Cyberlocker EX.UA To Shut Down Amid Police Crackdown 12
IRS Demands Identities of All US Coinbase Traders Over Three Year Period 124
LinkedIn-Russia: US Says Concerned Over Decision to Block Professional Networking Site 95
France To Shut Down All Coal-Fired Power Plants By 2023 328
Music Torrent Site What.CD Has Been Shut Down 86
NSA Chief: Nation-State Made 'Conscious Effort' To Sway US Presidential Election 667
James Clapper, US Director of National Intelligence, Has Resigned 170
SpaceX Files FCC Application For Internet Access Network With 4,425 Satellites 121
Royal Navy Giving Up Anti-Ship Missiles, Will Rely On Cannons For Naval Combat 432
Steve Bannon Suggests Having Too Many Asian Tech CEOs Undermines 'Civic Society' 805
FCC Abides By GOP Request To Stop What It's Doing, Deletes Everything From Meeting Agenda 119
Police Raid Pirate Site, Seize 60 Servers Following MPAA Complaint 60
Facebook Users Interacted Most With Articles From Fox News, CNN and Breitbart In Month Leading Up To Nov 10 212
Schneier: We Need a New Agency For IoT Security 165
Cybersecurity CEO Gets Fired After Threatening To Kill Trump On Facebook 497
US Internet Firms Ask Trump To Support Encryption, Ease Regulations 173
US Finalizes Rules That Require Quiet Hyrbid and Electric Cars To Make Noise At Low Speeds 361
China Threatens To Cut Sales of iPhones and US Cars if 'Naive' Trump Pursues Trade War 742
President Obama Gives Up On The Trans-Pacific Partnership 355
Will Trump's Presidency Bring More Surveillance To The US? 412
Peter Thiel Is Joining Donald Trump's Transition Team 820
FBI Operated 23 Tor-Hidden Child Porn Sites, Deployed Malware From Them 176
IMDb Sues California To Overturn Law Forcing Them To Remove Actors' Ages 68
Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic To Lead EPA Transition 1066
How President Trump Could Destroy Net Neutrality 235
Silicon Valley Investors Call For California To Secede From the US After Trump Win 1368
Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook 499
Slashdot Asks: Should The US Abolish The Electoral College? 1081
Ireland Will Bring the Fight Over Apple Taxes To the EU Court 71
Long-Range Projectiles For Navy's Newest Ship Too Expensive To Shoot 303
Unsealed Court Docs Show FBI Used Malware Like 'A Grenade' 59
Edward Snowden Kills Team Trump's Conspiracy Theory By Explaining How The FBI Can Quickly Comb Through Email 488
Security Firm Shows How To Hack a US Voting Machine 209
Elon Musk Predicts Automation Will Lead To A Universal Basic Income 426
FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton 733
Secret Service, DHS Scramble To Secure America's Election 360
The FBI Spent Two Years Investigating An Online Cult That Didn't Exist 134
Aaron Swartz Remembered With Annual Hackathon In San Francisco 18
Why a Theoretical Physicist Wants All State Bills To Be Online Before Final Vote 304
US Government Launches Code.gov To Showcase Its Open Source Software 57
Judge Refuses To Block New York 'Ballot Selfie' Law 248
White House, 35 States To Boost Electric Vehicle Charging Stations 72
UK Government Wants Prisons Geoblocked By Drone Manufacturers 143
US Government Sues AT&T/DirecTV, Calls It 'Ringleader' of Collusion Scheme 113
Newly Published WikiLeaks Emails Show Clinton Campaign Communicated With State Department 454
National Geographic Releases Alarming Climate Change Movie 'Before the Flood' On YouTube 693
Trump Organization Owns More Than 3,600 Domain Names, Many of Which Bash Trump 224
AT&T Falsely Claimed Pro-Google Fiber Rule Is Invalid, FCC Says 22
The Next President Will Face a Cybercrisis Within 100 Days, Predicts Report 122
NSA Hackers The Shadow Brokers Dump More Files 50
EFF Suggests Halloween Costume To Protest Facial Recognition Databases 65
CETA Signed Off As Wallonia Folds Under Pressure 158
Pirate Party Gains Seats In Iceland's Election 105
'Robocall Strike Force' Proposal Could Stop Caller ID Spoofing 97
Apple Shared User Data With Governments, Says WikiLeaks Email 106
Payback? Russia Gets Hacked, Revealing Putin Aide's Secrets 228
US Bank Regulator Notifies Congress of Major Data Security Breach 48
Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users By Race 197
FBI Probes Newly Discovered Hillary Clinton Emails and Reopens Investigation 822
Feds Charge 61 People In Indian-Based IRS Phone Scam Case 139
Lawsuit Seeks To Block New York Ban On 'Ballot Selfies' 317
Oracle Will Officially Appeal Its 'Fair Use' Loss Against Google 99
FCC Imposes ISP Privacy Rules and Takes Aim At Mandatory Arbitration 51
Hotel CEO Openly Celebrates Higher Prices After Anti-Airbnb Law Passes 310
Comcast Sues Nashville To Halt Rules That Give Google Fiber Faster Access To Utility Poles 95
Russia Unveils 'Satan 2' Missile Powerful Enough To 'Wipe Out UK, France Or Texas' 1028
Yahoo Scanning Order Unlikely To Be Made Public: Reuters 61
Largest Auto-Scandal Settlement In US History: Judge Approves $15 Billion Volkswagen Settlement 128
Electronic Surveillance Up 500% In DC Area Since 2011, Almost All Sealed Cases 41
AT&T's $85B US Bid For Time Warner Sparks Antitrust Fears in Washington 116
Swedish Administrative Court Bans Drones With Cameras 113
US Police Consider Flying Drones Armed With Stun Guns 163
Who Should We Blame For Friday's DDOS Attack? 190
American 'Vigilante Hacker' Defaces Russian Ministry's Website 210
Should Journalists Ignore Some Leaked Emails? 361
Journalist Cleared of Riot Charges in South Dakota 79
John McAfee Thinks North Korea Hacked Dyn, and Iran Hacked the DNC 149
'Anonymous' Hacker Indicted As His Hunger Strike Continues 67
WikiLeaks To Its Supporters: 'Stop Taking Down the US Internet, You Proved Your Point' 338
AI Platform Assesses Trump's and Clinton's Emotional Intelligence 184
Governor Cuomo Bans Airbnb From Listing Short-Term Rentals In New York 160
Prosecutors Say NSA Contractor Could Flee To Foreign Power 44
Hotspot Vigilantes Are Trying to Beam the Internet To Julian Assange 246
US Army 'Will Have More Robot Soldiers Than Humans' By 2025, Says Former British Spy 114
How Hackers Broke Into John Podesta and Colin Powell's Gmail Accounts 116
Prosecutors Say Contractor Stole 50 Terabytes of NSA Data 90
Yahoo Wants To Know If FBI Ordered Yahoo To Scan Emails 90
Czechs Arrest Russian Hacker Wanted By FBI 55
CIA-Backed Surveillance Tool 'Geofeedia' Was Marketed To Public Schools 41
Half of American Adults Are In a Face-Recognition Database 64
Clinton Campaign Considered Bill Gates, Tim Cook For Vice President 171
Project Include Drops Y Combinator As Peter Thiel Pledges $1.25 Million To Trump 636
It's Entirely Reasonable For Police To Swipe a Suspicious Gift Card, Says Court 204
Ethiopia's State of Emergency Makes Posting To Facebook a Crime 38
Hackers Steal Credit Card Data From Visitors of US Senate GOP Committee Website 29
WikiLeaks: Ecuador Cut Off Assange's Internet Access 315
Journalists Face Jail Time After Reporting on North Dakota Pipeline Protest 357
UK Security Agencies Unlawfully Collected Data For 17 Years, Court Rules 56
Report: Russian Hackers Phished The DNC And Clinton Campaign Using Fake Gmail Forms 435
The White House Open Sources President Obama's Facebook Messenger Bot To 'Bring the Gov't To You' 37
California City Converts Its Street Lights Into A High-Speed IoT Backbone 61
Google Reveals It Received Secret FBI Subpoena 61
Top Democrats Request FBI Investigation of Trump Campaign Ties To Russia Over Hacking 493
Russia Builds Microwave Weapon To Take Down Enemy Drones 155
DHS Warns of Mirai Botnet Threat To Cellular Modems 21
President Obama Orders Government To Plan For 'Space Weather' 169
Ken Bone May Have Violated FTC Guidelines With Uber Tweet 95
4Chan Hackers Claim To Have Remotely Wiped John Podesta's iPhone and iPad 269
Senator Wants Nationwide, All-Mail Voting To Counter Election Hacks 454
White House: AI Holds the Potential To Be a Major Driver of Economic Growth and Social Progress 121
Uber and Didi Face Regulatory Challenges Throughout China 15
NASA To Allow Private Companies To Hook Up Modules To ISS 64
US Military Is Looking At Blockchain Technology To Secure Nuclear Weapons 62
White House Vows 'Proportional' Response For Russian DNC Hack 396
How a Video Game About Sheep Exposes the FBI's Broken FOIA System 116
Sprint To Provide 1 Million Students With Free Internet, Mobile Devices 65
WikiLeaks Publishes Cryptic UFO Emails Sent To Clinton Campaign From Former Blink 182 Singer 205
Yahoo Disables Automatic Email Forwarding Feature, Making It Difficult For Users To Leave 205
UK Is Banning Apple Watch From Cabinet Meetings Over Russian Hacking Fears 106
WikiLeaks Posts 2,000 More Emails From John Podesta 377

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