Government Stories for 2017

Iran Cuts Internet Access and Threatens Telegram Following Mass Protests 156
Windows 10 Visits To US Government Sites Surpass Windows 7 For the First Time 111
People Who Know How the News Is Made Resist Conspiratorial Thinking 368
FBI Software For Analyzing Fingerprints Contains Russian-Made Code, Whistleblowers Say 174
Empirical Research Reveals Three Big Problems With How Patents Are Vetted 94
Russia Is Accusing the US of 'Direct Interference' In Its Elections 195
The Library of Congress Will Stop Archiving Every Public Tweet On January 1st 79
Net Neutrality Complaints Rise Amid FCC Repeal 183
12 Days In Xinjiang - China's Surveillance State 132
Republican's 'Net Neutrality' Proposal Called 'Bait and Switch' 121
Russian Submarines are 'Prowling Around' Undersea Internet Cables 175
65% of Washington DC's Outdoor Surveillance Cameras Infiltrated by Romanian Hackers 85
Can the FCC's 'Net Neutrality' Decision Be Overturned in Congress? 186
Lithuania Calls On EU To Stop Adjusting Clocks For Daylight Savings 170
Republican Lawmaker Introduces Net Neutrality Legislation 350
France Passes Law To Ban All Oil, Gas Production By 2040 259
The White House Is Temporarily Shutting Down Its Petition Website 153
Your Phone May Send You 'Blue Alerts' To Warn You When Local Police Are In Danger 318
New York City Moves To Create Accountability For Algorithms 183
Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Net Neutrality Narrative Is False 363
Venezuela Will Force Bitcoin Miners To Register With the Government 152
CDC Director Says No Words Are Actually Banned At the CDC 177
'There Will Be a [Senate] Vote' To Reinstate Net Neutrality, Schumer Says 278
Ban Sale of Mini Mobiles, Says Justice Minister 192
Ajit Pai Taunts Net Neutrality Critics. Mark Hamill Taunts Ajit Pai 346
The US Military Admits It Spent $22 Million Investigating UFOs 166
Facial Recognition Algorithms -- Plus 1.8 Billion Photos -- Leads to 567 Arrests in China 168
ISPs Won't Promise To Treat All Traffic Equally After Net Neutrality 232
CIA Captured Putin's 'Specific Instructions' To Hack the 2016 Election, Says Report 535
Lawmakers Are Fighting For Net Neutrality 215
Trump Administration Calls For Government IT To Adopt Cloud Services 208
No Matter What Happens With Net Neutrality, an Open Internet Isn't Going Anywhere, Says Former FCC Chairman 177
What Does Artificial Intelligence Actually Mean? 130
Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government 468
SEC Shuts Down Munchee ICO 43
129 Million Americans Can Only Get Internet Service From Companies That Have Violated Net Neutrality 143
France To Ban Mobile Phones In Schools 191
President Trump Is Sending NASA Back To The Moon 307
German Intelligence Warns of Increased Chinese Cyberspying 75
FCC Refuses Records For Investigation Into Fake Net Neutrality Comments 164
Touting Government/Industry 'Partnership' on Security Practices, NIST Drafts Cybersecurity Framework Update 15
Autocratic Governments Can Now 'Buy Their Own NSA' 109
"The FCC Still Doesn't Know How the Internet Works" 289
Volkswagen Executive Sentenced To Maximum Prison Term For His Role In Dieselgate 101
Victims of Mystery Attacks In Cuba Left With Anomalies In Brain Tissue 233
Warrantless Surveillance Can Continue Even If Law Expires, Officials Say 68
FCC Chair Ajit Pai Falsely Claims Killing Net Neutrality Will Help Sick and Disabled People 207
'We Could Fund a Universal Basic Income With the Data We Give Away To Facebook and Google' 588
Feds Shut Down Allegedly Fraudulent Cryptocurrency Offering 47
Apple, Google CEOs Bring Star Power as China Promotes Censorship 38
How 'Grinch Bots' Are Ruining Online Christmas Shopping 283
Shouting 'Pay Your Taxes', Activists Occupy Apple Stores in France 233
Drone Pilot Arrested After Flying Over Two Stadiums, Dropping Leaflets 108
Tesla Proves To Be Too Pricey For Germany, Loses Tax Subsidies 121
Was Your Name Stolen To Support Killing Net Neutrality? 128
Democrat Senators Introduce National Data Breach Notification Law 162
Coinbase Ordered To Report 14,355 Users To the IRS 141
EPA Confirms Tesla's Model 3 Has a Range of 310 Miles 283
FCC Chairman Keeps Up Assault on Social Media 193
A Supreme Court Case This Week Could Change US Digital Privacy Standards 74
New NSA Leak Exposes Red Disk, the Army's Failed Intelligence System 67
White House Weighs Personal Mobile Phone Ban For Staff 113
Comcast Hints At Plan For Paid Fast Lanes After Net Neutrality Repeal 308
Petition Calls for Ouster of FCC Chairman Pai 174
FBI Failed To Notify 70+ US Officials Targeted By Russian Hackers 94
Russia and The US Fight Over Who Gets To Extradite A Hacker 98
Patent Trolls Are Losing More. Will America's Supreme Court Change That? 127
Taking The Profit Out Of Killing 'Net Neutrality' 257
Bloomberg Op-Ed: The Internet 'Already Lost Its Neutrality' 171
Bipartisan US Election Group Issues Security Tips 103
More Than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments Were Likely Faked 177
AT&T, Comcast Lawsuit Has Nullified a City's Broadband Competition Law 74
Legislators Take Aim At Star Wars Battlefront II, EA Over 'Gambling In Games' 72
Data Breach Hits Australia's Department of Social Services Credit Card System 32
'We Are Disappointed': Tech Companies Speak Up Against the FCC's Plan To Kill Net Neutrality 183
We'll Never Legalize Bitcoin, Says Russian Minister 55
Uber Is Under Investigation By Multiple States Over a 2016 Data Breach 25
FCC Ignored Your Net Neutrality Comment, Unless You Made a 'Serious' Legal Argument 279
Facebook To Show Users Which Russian Propaganda They Followed 279
FCC Will Also Order States To Scrap Plans For Their Own Net Neutrality Laws 280
Iranian 'Game of Thrones' Hacker Demanded $6 Million Bitcoin Ransom From HBO, Feds Say 34
Trump Administration Tightens Scrutiny of Skilled Worker Visa Applicants 263
US Sues To Block AT&T Purchase of Time Warner 64
Net Neutrality is Essentially Unassailable, Argues Billionaire Barry Diller 82
Musk-Backed 'Slaughterbots' Video Will Warn the UN About Killer Microdrones 252
The House's Tax Bill Levies a Tax On Graduate Student Tuition Waivers 578
Massive US Military Social Media Spying Archive Left Wide Open In AWS S3 Buckets 85
FCC Approves Next-Gen ATSC 3.0 TV Standard 158
Report Claims That 18 Nation's Elections Were Impacted By Social Engineering Last Year 235
FCC Repeals Decades-Old Rules Blocking Broadcast Media Mergers 146
New EU Consumer Protection Law Contains a Vague Website Blocking Clause 45
FCC Plans December Vote To Kill Net Neutrality Rules 116
Why Google Should Be Afraid of a Missouri Republican's Google Probe 231
FDA Approves Digital Pill That Tracks If Patients Have Ingested Their Medication 72
Pentagon To Make a Big Push Toward Open-Source Software Next Year 99
Study Finds SpaceX Investment Saved NASA Hundreds of Millions 156
North Korean Hackers Are Targeting US Defense Contractors 146
US Airports Still Fail New Security Tests 182
iPhone Encryption Hampers Investigation of Texas Shooter, Says FBI 240
H1-B Administrators Are Challenging An Unusually Large Number of Applications 304
Following Equifax Breach, CEO Doesn't Know If Data Is Encrypted 104
DOJ: Strong Encryption That We Don't Have Access To Is 'Unreasonable' 510
Monopoly Critics Decry 'Amazon Amendment' 52
WikiLeaks Starts Releasing Source Code For Alleged CIA Spying Tools 102
Nearly a Third of Millennials Say They'd Rather Own Bitcoin Than Stocks 312
Nearly Half of Colorado Counties Have Rejected a Comcast-Backed Law Restricting City-Run Internet 128
Justice Department Tells Time Warner It Must Sell CNN Or DirecTV To Approve Its AT&T Merger 118
The US Is Now the Only Country In the World To Reject the Paris Climate Deal 719
Apple Wins $120 Million From Samsung In Slide-To-Unlock Patent Battle 72
Afghanistan Clarifies It Will Not Block WhatsApp, Telegram 18
'Panama Papers' Group Strikes Again with 'Paradise Papers' 402
Republican Tax Plan Kills Electric Vehicle Credit 481
Massive Government Report Says Climate Is Warming and Humans Are the Cause 415
Department of Justice Considers Blocking AT&T Deal For Time Warner 32
Trump Says Broadcom Is Moving Headquarters To US From Singapore 122
CIA Releases 321GB of Bin Laden's Digital Library 125
Government Won't Pursue Talking Car Mandate 109
Facebook, Twitter and Google Berated by Senators on Russia 176
Estonia Is Enhancing the Security of Its Digital Identities 36
Russia's Anti-VPN Law Goes Into Effect 185
Verizon Wants To Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy 183
Facebook Says 126 Million Americans May Have Seen Russia-Linked Political Posts 370
BlackBerry CEO Promises To Try To Break Customers' Encryption If the US Government Asks Him To 107
Indiana Is Purging Voters Using Software That's 99 Percent Inaccurate, Lawsuit Alleges 509
Heathrow Airport Security Files Found on USB Stick In The Street 116
While Equifax Victims Sue, Congress Limits Financial Class Actions 190
Portuguese ISP Shows What The Net Looks Like Without Net Neutrality 244
America's F-35s Can't Fly 22% of the Time, Repair Facilities Six Years Behind Schedule 304
Catalonia Declares Independence; Spain Approves Central Takeover Of Region 579
McAfee Says It No Longer Will Permit Government Source Code Reviews 79
San Francisco Just Took a Huge Step Toward Internet Utopia 226
FCC To Loosen TV, Newspaper Ownership Rules 86
Kaspersky Admits To Reaping Hacking Tools From NSA Employee PC 139
Why We Must Fight For the Right To Repair Our Electronics 224
FCC Ends Decades-Old Rule Designed To Keep TV, Radio Under Local Control 223
Oracle, Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook Blow Even More Cash on Lobbying 73
Congress Opens Probe Into FBI's Handling of Clinton Email Investigation 390
New Cyber Attacks Hit Airport, Metro in Ukraine 50
Microsoft To Drop Lawsuit After US Government Revises Data Request Rules 28
FBI Couldn't Access Nearly 7,000 Devices Because of Encryption 299
Singapore To Stop Adding Cars to City From February 2018 97
Canadian Government Teams With Facebook To Protect Election Integrity 118
YouTube Suspends Account of Popular Chinese Dissident 154
Tech Companies To Lobby For Immigrant 'Dreamers' To Remain In US 296
The US Government Keeps Spectacularly Underestimating Solar Energy Installation 151
Body Camera Study Shows No Effect On Police Use of Force Or Citizen Complaints 155
Body Camera Giant Wants Police To Collect Your Videos Too 61
Senators Announce New Bill That Would Regulate Online Political Ads 232
Apple Watch's LTE Suspended In China Possibly Due To Government Security Concerns 18
CNN Gets a First-Of-Its-Kind Waiver To Fly Drones Over Crowds 60
SpaceX's Reusable Rockets Win US Air Force General's Endorsement 70
'Significant' Number of Equifax Victims Already Had Info Stolen, Says IRS 105
Ask Slashdot: Should Users Uninstall Kaspersky's Antivirus Software? 313
Munich Plans New Vote on Dumping Linux For Windows 10 412
Julian Assage Taunts US Government For Forcing Wikileaks To Invest In Bitcoin 195
Pentagon Turns To High-Speed Traders To Fortify Markets Against Cyberattack 78
In a Cashless World, You'd Better Pray the Power Never Goes Out 453
How Open Source Software Helps The Federal Reserve Bank of New York 24
IRS Suspends $7 Million Contract With Equifax After Malware Discovered 50
Recordings of the Sounds Heard In the Cuban US Embassy Attacks Released 300
FDA Advisers Endorse Gene Therapy To Treat Form of Blindness 15
US Government Has 'No Right To Rummage' Through Anti-Trump Protest Website Logs, Says Judge 277
FCC's Claim That One ISP Counts As 'Competition' Faces Scrutiny In Court 200
Moscow Has Turned Kaspersky Antivirus Software Into a Global Spy Tool, Using It To Scan Computers For Secret US Data 267
Israeli Spies 'Watched Russian Agents Breach Kaspersky Software' 194
Justice Department To Be More Aggressive In Seeking Encrypted Data From Tech Companies 206
Symantec CEO: Source Code Reviews Pose Unacceptable Risk 172
Dutch Government Confirms Plan To Ban New Petrol, Diesel Cars By 2030 349
North Korean Hackers Stole U.S.-South Korean Military Plans, Lawmaker Says 110
SpaceX's Mars Vision Puts Pressure on NASA's Manned Exploration Programs 142
The Case Against Biometric IDs 146
HP Enterprise Let Russia Scrutinize The Pentagon's Cyberdefense Software 121
Bitcoin Transactions Lead To Arrest of Major Drug Dealer 169
White House Chief of Staff's Phone Was Reportedly Hacked Months Ago 138
Sprint, T-Mobile Could Announce a Merger By Month's End 47
Regulate Facebook Like AIM 105
US Jobs Dropped By 33,000 In September, Likely Due To Storms 128
Vice President Pence Vows US Astronauts Will Return To the Moon 226
Russian Hackers Exploited Kaspersky Antivirus To Steal NSA Data on US Cyber Defense: WSJ 223
Facebook Fought Rules That Could Have Exposed Fake Russian Ads 193
US Congress Investigates Patent 'Gifts' That Evade Inter Partes Review 55
US Senate Panel Approves Self-Driving Car Legislation 123
Artificial Intelligence Has 'Great Potential, But We Need To Steer Carefully,' LinkedIn Co-founder Says 73
IRS Awards $7 Million Fraud Prevention Contract To Equifax 115
UK Government Could Imprison People For Looking At Terrorist Content 271
Ex-Verizon Lawyer Ajit Pai Confirmed To Second Term As FCC Chair 101
Supreme Court Won't Hear Kim Dotcom's Civil Forfeiture Case 165
Russia Suspected In GPS-Spoofing Attacks On Ships 194
US Prisons Have a Cellphone Smuggling Problem 275
Squabble With Contractor Delayed Equifax's Response To Data Breach 127
US Consumer Groups Warn 'Robot Car Bill' Threatens Safety 139
Google Investigates Facebook's Russian Political Operatives, Will Address Congressmen 93
Steve Wozniak: Net Neutrality Rollback 'Will End the Internet As We Know It' 215
FCC Silenced Puerto Rico Radio Station's Boosters In March 2017 155
Apple Reports 400 Percent Rise In National Security Requests 44
US Slashing Embassy Staff In Cuba Because of Apparent Sonic 'Attacks' 70
Spanish Court Orders Google To Delete App Used For Catalan Independence Vote 118
Dubai Proposes Giant Simulated Mars City In the Desert 104
Air Force Gives 10-Year-Old Orbiting Satellite To Ham Radio Operators 74
FCC Chief Tells Apple To Turn on iPhone's FM Radio Chip 235
Bell Canada Wants Pirate Websites Blocked For Canadians 136
Homeland Security Plans To Collect Immigrants' Social Media Information 197
NSA Targeted 106,000 Foreigners In Spy Program Up For Renewal 41
President Donald Trump and His Daughter Ivanka To Unveil a New Federal Computer Science Initiative With Major Tech Backers 260
Governments Turn Tables By Suing Public Records Requesters 145
Spain's Crackdown on Catalonia Includes Internet Censorship 363
Distrustful US Allies Force Spy Agency To Back Down In Encryption Fight 104
Facebook Will Share Copies of Political Ads Purchased by Russian Sources With the US Congress 234
Bitcoin Futures-Based ETF Likely To Be Approved in the US 59
Twitter Suspends 300,000 Accounts Tied To Terrorism In 2017 69
Equifax Stock Sales Are the Focus of US Criminal Probe 48
NSA Launches 'Codebreaker Challenge' For Students: Stopping an Infrastructure Attack 53
Facebook Shares Details Of Russia-Bought Ads With US Investigators 232
Mystery of Sonic Weapon Attacks At US Embassy In Cuba Deepens 215
Trump Blocks China-Backed Takeover of US Chip Maker 'Lattice Semi' 151
Wisconsin State Legislature Signs Off On $3 Billion Foxconn Incentive Package 158
ISPs Claim a Privacy Law Would Weaken Online Security, Increase Pop-Ups 86
In a Highly Unusual Move, FTC Confirms It Is Investigating Equifax 117
Silicon Valley Bosses Are Globalists, Not Libertarians 308
Kaspersky Software Banned From US Government Systems Over Concerns About Russia 91
Department of Energy Invests $50 Million To Improve Critical Energy Infrastructure Security 51
Researchers Catch Microsoft Zero-Day Used To Install Government Spyware 83
Virginia Scraps Electronic Voting Machines Hackers Destroyed At DefCon 194
ShadowBrokers Releases NSA UNITEDRAKE Manual That Targets Windows Machines 99
Government Officials Begin Investigating Equifax Breach 142
America's Data-Swamped Spy Agencies Pin Their Hopes On AI 62
Four EU Countries Seek Higher Taxes On Google and Amazon 205
The Teen Malware Career Of Marcus Hutchins 48
Should Congress Force Social Media To Investigate Foreign Propaganda Trolls? 266
FDA Slams EpiPen Maker For Doing Nothing While Hundreds Failed, People Died 80
Uber Faces FBI Probe Over Program Targeting Rival Lyft 13
Seoul Is Reinventing Itself As a Techno-Utopia 68
House Passes Bill To Speed Deployment of Self-driving Cars 176
80% of UK Government IT Projects Suffer Delays Due To Tax Clampdown 88
AI Could Lead To Third World War, Elon Musk Says 244
Thousands of Job Applicants Citing Top Secret US Government Work Exposed In Amazon Server Data Breach 115
'Pay With Your Face' Technology Tested in a KFC Store In China 59
Apple Calls For FCC To Keep 'Strong, Enforceable' Net Neutrality Protections 50
FDA Approves First Cell-Based Therapy For Cancer 63
South Korea Moves Towards The World's First 'Robot Tax' 83
Is Slashdot Blocked In Parts Of India? 172
The IRS Decides Who To Audit By Data Mining Social Media 232
One Day Left To Comment on the FCC's Plan To Kill Net Neutrality 99
On Internet Privacy, Be Very Afraid 149
FDA Designates MDMA As 'Breakthrough Therapy' For PTSD 266
New York City Cops Will Replace Their 36,000 Windows Phones With iPhones 215
As Prosecutors Submit Evidence, WannaCry Hero's Legal Fund Returns All Donations 172
China Orders Internet Comments Linked To Real Identities 251
Tasers Implicated In Far More Deaths Than We Previously Thought 191
Your Personal Information Is Now the World's Most Valuable Commodity 158

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